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| Have any of you ever administered a sugar solution to any plants and if so with what results.? I ask this in the knowledge that certain vegetable exhibitors use quiness as one of their special additives. Have you seen those giant marrows? Before you tell me that booze has vitamin 'B' in it, I know but the question is really about sugar.
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| I've always been led to believe that mixing a teaspoon of sugar into the water of a vase of cut flowers, makes them last longer. Personally I always use ordinary lemonade (not the diet sort = less sugar). The small spray carnations last approx. 6 weeks by doing this.
Kath
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| Hi I think this theory has come about by the saying that the plant sap is made up of sugars. There are of course many types of sugars though, and they are not all from Tate and Lyle!
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We have quitre a lot of home made jams and marmalades. When the jars get to the scraping out stage, I fill them with water which is later poured over the kitchen herb area. My theory has been that as the herbs are 'cut and come again', they are not getting as much sugar from the action of light on the leaves. Will my actions be compensating for this. Come in Jim and Smithy, what are your opinions?
My name is Don and I'm a bonsaiholic.
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Well, like you, I've heard lots of anecdotal evidence from veg growers who use sugar to boost production in squashes, punmpkins, etc.
However, I've yet to see any real science backing up this theory, and I don't know whether plants are even able to absorb sugars through their roots, let alone utilise them in place of photosynthesised glucose.
However, the sugar in water for cut flowers IS backed up by some fairly rigourous testing, although it should be said that glucose powder is better than any of the more complex sugars for this purpose. I belive this is the main constituent of those little sachets of "cut flower food" you sometimes get with bunches of flowers...
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