How to Properly Use Hydrogen Peroxide for Houseplants: Not Everyone Knows About It

29.01.2024 10:42

To ensure that indoor flowers are healthy and beautiful, various methods can be used.

One of the most popular is the use of hydrogen peroxide.

The main task will be to use the drug as correctly as possible, clarifies the expert of the online publication "BelNovosti", landscape designer and agronomist Anastasia Kovrizhnykh .

What are the subtleties of using hydrogen peroxide?

Classic feeding

If you are interested in using hydrogen peroxide as a regular fertilizer, then this recipe will come in handy. Take no more than two spoons of the preparation per liter of water.

Flowers are fed in this way once every seven days.

a plant
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The product can be used for both spraying and watering.

Against insects

Hydrogen peroxide is also used to overcome pests that attack indoor plants. To do this, you will need to strengthen the classic watering composition (a liter of water and 2 spoons of the product) with thirty drops of iodine.

If the insects do not react, it is recommended to additionally add two spoons of alcohol.

This method can help get rid of spider mites, aphids, nematodes, scale insects and other pests.

Diseases

The classic peroxide-based fertilizer, which we talked about at the very beginning, not only helps the plant become stronger and healthier, but also has excellent protective functions in terms of getting rid of diseases.

Hydrogen peroxide is the best remedy against fungi.

Previously, we talked about how to rid indoor citrus plants of scale insects .

Author: Marina Michalap Internet resource editor
 
Expert: Anastasia Kovrizhnykh Expert / Belnovosti

Content
  1. What are the subtleties of using hydrogen peroxide?
  2. Classic feeding
  3. Against insects
  4. Diseases