Does sugar kill flowers?

Answer 1

"The dose makes the poison."

If you add enough of anything, you can kill something.

Plants produce their own sugar, so sugar is not terribly toxic, in fact, it is essential to its survival (as it is our own). However, adding a lot can cause one of two problems.

First, if you add sugar to the soil, you create a food medium for bacteria and fungi. This generates waste products that can harm the plant and will transform the nitrogen in the soil to a form that the plants do not readily take up. You throw the whole soil ecology of balance. Many types of bacteria and fungi will also start consuming the plant roots in their sort of microscopic feeding frenzy.

The second thing can do if you add enough sugar is you interfere with the uptake of water to the plant. The water in a plant and the water in the surrounding soil naturally want to reach equilibrium with such things as sugar, salt, minerals, etc. If you add a lot of sugar to the soil around a plant, water will actually be drawn out of the plant rather than into it and it will dehydrate. Salt is more well known for doing this, but sugar will do it also.

But, adding a little sugar to the water in a vase will help preserve cut flowers by providing them with energy. It's all in how much you add.

Answer 2

I DON'T THINK IT WOULD BUT SALT WILL KILL PLANTS. ALL I THINK SUGAR WOULD DO IS CAUSE MORE INSECTS TO ATTACK YOUR PLANTS.

Answer 3

no but you will have ants out your butt