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Can You Use Hydrogen Peroxide to Care for Houseplants: It Turns Out It's Not That Simple
12.02.2024 20:17
Florists have many tools at hand that allow them to quickly bring a sick plant back to life.
Most of these are improvised and inexpensive means, such as matches or hydrogen peroxide. But you need to know how to use them correctly.
Anastasia Kovrizhnykh , an expert of the online publication "BelNovosti", an agronomist and landscape designer, told how to use hydrogen peroxide in flower care.
Benefits of peroxide
In fact, many people neglect this remedy in vain.
1. Adding peroxide to rain or tap water improves the composition of the irrigation liquid.
For plants, such watering has obvious advantages, as it saturates the soil in the pots with oxygen, helps the roots absorb fertilizers, due to which the plants are filled with energy.
2. Another positive point is that peroxide helps to deal with rot. It acts as a disinfectant, but at the same time maintains the structure of the soil.
But with all this, experienced gardeners use peroxide only as an auxiliary agent, and not as a complete fertilizer.
How to use
For one liter of water you will need 30 ml of hydrogen peroxide.
The prepared solution can be used for spraying leaves or for adding to the soil.
Precautions
This supplement is not recommended for use on flowering or recently transplanted plants.
You should also be careful if a white coating appears on the soil or substrate, which may be a sign of excess peroxide.
Previously we talked about how to get abundant flowering from begonia.
