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[MMJcali]

So I'm sitting watering my plants after a long day at work and drinking one of my favorite beers - newcastle brown.

my plants are drinkin the water like nobody's business, and I'm doing the same with my newcastle...so I get to thinking....

what would happen if you watered your plants with beer once in a while? get a crop of brown ale nugs? or maybe make them more receptive to the male I have ready to bust a sack?


I mean, ive heard of using molasses during mid-late flower...and this newcastle sure does taste thick and sweet...

anybody ever try it? how bout any resident botanists, what would the alcohol/stuff in the beer do to the root system/plant?

 

[Scotsman]

Hahaha!

As much as I enjoy a bottle of Nooky brown ale I wouldn,t be giving it too my plants fella.

What if theres some males in there,and a fight breaks out?

Then they grow and start shouting tooooooooon army tooooon army why aye man lol

Cmon now..keep the booze and your weed seperate.

Scotsman.

 

[MMJcali]

Then they grow and start shouting tooooooooon army tooooon army why aye man lol

man, I would love to see that! thatd be some killer genetics!!

 

[thesloppy]

Joking aside, I wouldn't try it. Alcohol is yum yum fun for us, but it's still a poison, and although beer has some un-fermented sugars that I suppose might slightly benefit your plant, or the organisms living in the soil, it also might just as easily kill 'em.


...but I bet watering with bongwater would totally work. And some Robitussin....gets you high and relieves your plant's cough.

 

[supermanlives]

i put stale beer in my compost pile . i wouldnt pour straight beer into a plant

 

[HighDesertJoe]

I only use beer for making Killer Beer Pancakes
they kill the Munchies

 

[3dDream]

I thought this was retarded until a search...

Why tipsy flowers don't tip over: Booze stunts stem and leaves, but doesn't affect blossoms, study finds
By Susan S. Lang
Those paperwhites and other daffodils sure could use a drink -- a little whiskey, vodka gin or tequila could keep them from falling over.


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From left: Untreated paperwhites grown in water, plants grown in 2 percent, 4 percent, 6 percent, 8 percent and 10 percent ethanol.
A new Cornell study finds that a touch of booze is a great way to keep certain houseplants from getting too tall by stunting their growth. "Dilute solutions of alcohol -- though not beer or wine -- are a simple and effective way to reduce stem and leaf growth," said William Miller, professor of horticulture and director of the Flower Bulb Research Program at Cornell.

"When the liquor is properly used, the paperwhites we tested were stunted by 30 to 50 percent, but their flowers were as large, fragrant and long-lasting as usual," added Miller, whose new study on how alcohol inhibits houseplant growth will be published in the April issue of HortTechnology, a peer-reviewed journal of horticulture.

Miller will be working this spring to see if a little booze works for amaryllis and such vegetables as tomatoes and peppers, as well. His work with tulips so far has been promising but not yet definitive: "I think with a little jiggering -- no pun intended -- of the system, the method will work for tulips, though I think it will not be as simple as with paperwhites."

Last year, Miller received a call from The New York Times about a reader who had written to the garden editor claiming that gin had prevented some paperwhite narcissi from growing too tall and floppy and asked if it was because of some "essential oil" in the gin.

Intrigued that dilute alcohol might act as a growth retardant, Miller and former Cornell student Erin Finan '05 conducted experiments with ethanol (1, 5, 10 and 25 percent) and "Ziva" paperwhite narcissi (Narcissus tazetta), and later with about a dozen kinds of alcohol, including dry gin, unflavored vodka, whiskey, white rum, gold tequila, mint schnapps, red and white wine and pale lager beer, on paperwhites.

"While solutions greater than 10 percent alcohol were toxic, solutions between 4 and 6 percent alcohol stunted the paperwhites effectively," said Miller.

To control stem and leaf growth, he suggests waiting until paperwhites or other daffodil shoots are several inches long to drain the water and replace it with a solution of 4 to 6 percent alcohol -- hard liquor or rubbing alcohol.

To get a 5 percent solution from 80-proof liquor, which is 40 percent alcohol (such as gin, vodka, whiskey, rum or tequila), add one part liquor to seven parts water. To use rubbing alcohol (isopropyl alcohol), which is 70 percent alcohol, dilute one part with 10-11 parts water.

Why does booze stunt plant growth? "We don't know, but we're working on this," Miller writes in a fact sheet available on the Web called "Pickling Your Paperwhites" (available at http://www.hort.cornell.edu/miller/pubs.html).

"We think it simply might be water stress, that is, the alcohol makes it more difficult for the plant to absorb water, so the plant suffers a slight lack of water, enough to reduce leaf and stem growth, but not enough to affect flower size or flower longevity."

But don't serve beer or wine to plants -- the sugars wreak havoc on their health.

 

[wiseone]

I use flat warm beer mixed with some goodies in my lawn sprayer to jump start my lawn each spring. But, I don't think giving straight beer to a plant would be beneficial.

 

[greenmatter]

So I'm sitting watering my plants after a long day at work and drinking one of my favorite beers - newcastle brown.

my plants are drinkin the water like nobody's business, and I'm doing the same with my newcastle...so I get to thinking....

what would happen if you watered your plants with beer once in a while? get a crop of brown ale nugs? or maybe make them more receptive to the male I have ready to bust a sack?


I mean, ive heard of using molasses during mid-late flower...and this newcastle sure does taste thick and sweet...

anybody ever try it? how bout any resident botanists, what would the alcohol/stuff in the beer do to the root system/plant?

... so I get to thinking ....

"can I add rufilin to my feeding program?" may be the next question


.... don't put beer on your ladies .... nothing will make them forget that......

 

[longearedfriend]

kill them

 

[RoachClip]

I have flat warm beer to when I urinate for 20 minutes straight after downing a few cold one...