Out-of-date beer water flowers? The plant leaves are bright and green.

Summer is coming, and it's time to drink beer again, but sometimes we may encounter some leftover overnight beer or beer that has been forgotten and expired in the corner. Florists must have heard of it more or less. Beer, which is common in our daily life, is a good material that can be used to grow flowers. After proper treatment, it is of great benefit to the growth of flowers and plants.

However, although beer is a good nutrition for flowers, its usage and operation dosage are very fastidious. If you do not know the tricks and blindly use beer to water flowers, it will cause varying degrees of damage to the roots, branches and leaves of flowers.

So how to use beer correctly to grow flowers? then let the editor explain it to you in detail.

Plant fertilization

Beer contains a lot of protein, sugar, amino acids, nitrates and other nutrients, which can be said to be quite beneficial to the growth of flowers and plants, so it can be used as fertilizer.

Mix the beer and water at 1:10, then pour it on the soil surface of the flowers and plants. When applying, in addition to pay attention to the concentration of beer, but also pay attention to the frequency of application, basically not more than twice a month, can play a role in replenishing nutrients and promoting plant growth.

Cleaning blade

If the flowers in the home are too dusty, you can choose to wipe with a cotton swab dipped in beer solution, especially for foliage plants, the effect is particularly significant, the use of beer can not only play a cleaning role, but also make the leaves more bright and shiny green.

Before wiping, it is best to dilute the beer with two to three times the water, and then use a cotton swab or soft cloth, dipped in a small amount of beer solution, gently wipe along the lines of the leaves, do not use too much force, so as not to bruise the tissue cells of the leaves.

Prolong the florescence

This method is suitable for hydroponic plants during flowering, which can prolong the opening time of their flowers, can also be applied to cut flowers, and can prolong the viewing period of cut flowers and make them wither more slowly.

Pour 1:10 beer solution into the container, which can provide a nutritious growth environment for plants or cut flowers, delay the withering of cut flowers or prolong the blooming time of cut flowers.

Increase acidity

What is referred to here is the acidity of the soil. Because beer contains nitrate, the beer and water are mixed evenly at the ratio of 1:3, and then irrigated on the soil surface, which can effectively adjust the soil acidity and alkalinity. It is very beneficial to the growth of acidophilic soils such as gardenia, rhododendron and camellia.

Kill pests

What many people may not understand is that beer is very effective in preventing insect pests, especially scale insects. Beer can form a natural sealing film on the body surface of scale insects, making it difficult to breathe and die.

Mixing beer and water at the ratio of 1:6, and then spraying on the parts with more serious insect pests can kill scale insects and prevent insect pests. After three days of continuous use, almost all the scale insects will be successfully eliminated.

When using beer to water flowers, you need to pay extra attention to the following two points:

First, do not use chilled beer, it is best to use normal temperature beer to water flowers, otherwise too low temperature solution will make the plant root cells contract sharply, and then rot to death.

Second, be careful not to pour the sediment in the beer into the flowerpot, because most of these precipitates are residues of nutrients that have not been successfully decomposed, which will decompose and ferment when they enter the soil. The heat released can easily burn out the roots of plants, resulting in irreparable consequences.

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