>start feeding my plants mountain dew for a joke
>see quicker growth than i’ve ever seen
is this sustainable, or am i hurting my plants?
>start feeding my plants mountain dew for a joke. >see quicker growth than ive ever seen
>start feeding my plants mountain dew for a joke
>see quicker growth than i’ve ever seen
is this sustainable, or am i hurting my plants?
Soda is basically sugar water with phospheric acid in it. The water and phospheric acid can be taken up by the plant, and the sugar could be used by localized beneficial bacteria and fungus.
but its not economically sustainable in terms of price per can for what you are getting out of it. Use regular water if it needs more moisture, use regular phosphous/fertilizer if you want to adjust ph or increase phospherous in the soil. Use compost if you want to feed bacteria and fungus.
also, eventually that excess sugar will accumulate and attract things that arent beneficial to your plants. so its probably a bad idea to keep pouring soda everywhere unless your soil is severly phospherous depleted and you have no other choice but to pour cans of mountain dew all over the place like some farmer in idocracy.
So you would be right if you were talking about coca cola.
Mountain dew doesn't contain phosphorus so that is not why this has an effect. But for most people in the US giving some phosphate fertilizer wouldn't hurt. Large parts of the eastern states have low phosphorus soils.
This leaves 2 things, Calcium Disodium EDTA and sugar.
As well as potentially the citric acid making it easier for the plant to absorb things already in the soil. As you mentioned with adjusting the pH.
Calcium EDTA would just be a chelator and source of calcium. That will be something plants like.
Sugar can be absorbed by plants and makes it so they don't need to photosynthesise it themselves. It is a way to boost the growth of plants that are devoid of chlorophyll in certain leaves and thus have less area to capture energy from the sun. But in almost all cases the downsides and hassle of giving it in a way they can absorb the sugar is not worth it.
thats so cool anon, i didnt know plants could up take the sugar themselves.
Plants actually breath out co2 at night when they're using the sugars they made during the day. They just make more oxygen overall.
No they don't, moron.
>is this sustainable
no
initially, the sugar will attract ants which will aerate and the additives will enrich the soil
over time, though, insect infestation and mineralization will create a hostile environment
more than likely, all you're seeing is the effects of actually having watered your plants for a change
why not try science?
take two plants with as similar sunlight and earth composition as possible
feed one plant water and the other mountain dew
you tell us what happens at the end of summer break
>why not try science?
>take two plants with as similar sunlight and earth composition as possible
>feed one plant water and the other mountain dew
>you tell us what happens at the end of summer break
this is the friendliest way I have ever seen someone call someone else a moron
I've seen this movie before. It wasn't that good.
You shut your damn mouth... Idiocracy is a great movie!
>movie
Nah, it’s more of a documentary at this point
Owwww my balls
ESL go home.
>It has the corn syrup plants crave.
It's got what plants crave, electrolytes!
There's something about OP's image that is just so comforting. I can't put my finger on it.
If it actually did, it probably means you had them in really shitty soil. Try some real fertilizer and see what happens.