Is it good or bad to water flowers with tea?

It is estimated that drinking tea is an indispensable thing in many people's daily life. Some people like to use the leftover tea to water the flowers, thinking that this can provide nutrients to their flowers and make them grow better. Is that really the case? Here is the answer to everyone's doubts.

1. Is it feasible to water flowers with leftover tea?

Watering flowers with leftover tea is helpful to flowers to a certain extent, but there is a prerequisite, that is, fermented overnight tea. I believe we all know that tea contains a lot of alkaloids. If the leftover tea is directly watered, it will destroy the pH of the soil, affect the absorption of fertilizer and water, and be harmful to plants (because most flowers and plants are acidic). So it has to be fermented to make it weakly acidic, and then used to water the flowers.

2. How to treat the leftover tea and water the flowers better?

Generally speaking, the rest of the tea must be fermented before it can be used. Although the tea will naturally ferment weakly acidic overnight, watering the plants can be helpful. However, pour the tea into an airtight container and add some things such as rice panning water, vinegar and orange peel to ferment together. On the one hand, the fermentation speed will be faster, and on the other hand, the fermented tea will contain more nutrients and provide more nutrients for plants. The fermented tea should be diluted with clear water to avoid high concentration and burn the roots of the plant.

3. How about watering the flowers with leftover tea for a long time?

Watering tea for a long time is actually not very good for the plant. Because the tea after fermentation is weakly acidic and contains many trace elements, watering plants frequently for a long time will make the soil acidic and destroy the soil structure, and the precipitated substances will also cause soil consolidation, so watering flowers with leftover tea should not be too frequent to avoid adverse effects on plant growth. In the process of daily maintenance of flowers and plants, we can also loosen the soil to the plants and improve the soil porosity and permeability.

4. Which flowers and plants are acidic?

There are many flowers and plants that like acid, such as camellia, hydrangea, rhododendron, cyclamen, gardenia, begonia, Milan, Zhu Dinglan, Michelia, jasmine and so on.

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