Basically what happens when you feed your plants juices instead of water???

 

Juice and Milk both contain water. The difference is that there are other substances such as sugars and fat (in the case of milk). Nothing would happen is my guess. The plant would take up the water portion with out a problem. The fats would probably stick in the soil/potting media and break down due to microbes. As for the sugars from the juice...well, there's a chance that they might be taken up into the plant, translocated, and stored, but it probably would not be beneficial to the plant. Since plants are autotrophic, I'm sure they would expend less energy making their own sugars than taking sugars up through the roots--therefore it wouldnt be beneficial for plants to have evolved a complex mechanism for absorbing sugars through the roots. However, if we were talking about parasitic plants such as mistletoe that extend their roots into the phloem of other plants, well thats a different story.

So, the short answer is that juices and milk would not do anything different than regular water.

Never thought my horticulture degree would be useful on a car-based site...

If you have other plant questions, dont hesitate.

 

^ thanks Rick. That was a great answer. Reason why I was asking is because I see my neighbor pouring coke / coffee over their lawn almost every morning. Thanks again!

 

godammit, I was expecting some lame grainy japanese idiot video

 

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...64280312200467

 

thank you

 

That's funny, wouldn't the acidity of the coke/coffee hurt the plants?

 

Well, the acidity would depend on a few things...I'm not sure what the actual acidity of coke or coffee is, but some plants have the ability to tolerate high soil acidity--pH of 3.5-4. And even thought the Coffee/Coke may have a lower acidity, soils are usually buffered fairly well depending on what type of soils you may have. Combine that with rain that helps dilute acids, and it may/may not have much effect on the plant. If this was in a potted plant, then obviously this would be a different story.