Benefits of watering flowers with brown sugar
Brown sugar not only contains 95% sucrose, but also contains a lot of trace elements such as vitamins, iron, zinc and manganese. Brown sugar water is a kind of fertilizer with natural nutrition, which can promote the growth of flowers to be more vigorous, leafy and shiny. Watering flowers with brown sugar can increase the production of chlorophyll in flowers.
Disadvantages of watering flowers with brown sugar
The growth of flowers does not need too much sugar, but too much sugar will have a bad effect, hinder the normal breathing of roots, and sugar will also attract aphids, ants and other insects, causing harm to flowers.
And if the concentration of brown sugar for watering flowers is too high, it will affect the breathing of leaves. If you water the flowers too much, it will also affect photosynthesis. Without oxygen at the roots, flowers will wither.
Method for water flowers with brown sugar
Brown sugar water is suitable for watering flowers such as camellia and Clivia. The method of watering the flowers is to add 1g brown sugar into 500ml clear water, mix them evenly and soak them, then put the soaked solution into a watering can and spray the plants wet, so that the leaves of the flowers can be full and shiny. Moreover, spraying some sugar water before flowering can also promote flowering, because brown sugar contains vitamins, iron and other elements.