Currently, the horticultural market offers a huge amount of fertilizers for every taste and budget. Many of the chemical fertilizers have proven excellent results. However, not everyone has extra money, and not everyone welcomes the use of chemicals in crop production. That is why universal and harmless fertilizers were invented, with which you can feed your plants cheaply and safely. One of the ways of such feeding is fertilization with a sugar solution.

Why is sugar useful?

Numerous biological studies confirm the benefits of sugar for flowers. It helps to survive the cold and lack of light. When added to soil, sugar is separated into fructose and glucose. Glucose is a strong source of vitality for plants, as well as a building material like protein for humans. An important condition for the assimilation of sugar is the presence of carbon dioxide in the soil. If there is not enough of it, the roots can begin to rot, and the soil can become covered with mold. To spur the formation of carbon dioxide, EM preparations (microbiological preparations) are added to the soil.

How to determine if you need feeding

If the plant has stopped growing, and the leaves from rich green have become very pale, this indicates that it lacks either nutrients, or sunlight, or both.

A flower that has stopped blooming, began to lose leaves, dry quickly, and definitely needs additional nutrition, and sugar dressing will be an excellent option in this case. Withered and dried specimens should be handled with care, they should not be overfed.

Glucose feeding recipe

Two tablespoons of granulated sugar must be diluted in 1 liter of clean water. Pure glucose is also suitable, 2 tablets per liter of water.

Plants are watered with this solution, avoiding waterlogging so that mold does not appear. This top dressing should be used no more than 1 time per month.

Recipe for glucose and yeast feeding

For better growth and development of flowers, you can feed them with a sugar-yeast mixture. Yeast contains a lot of essential trace elements that help plants grow. The recipe for such a feeding is very simple: 1 gram of yeast and a teaspoon of sugar are dissolved in a liter of settled water. You can feed the plants in this way no more than 1 time per season in order to prevent mold and root rot.