Is it safe to put sugar into plant's soil? Will it harm o...
Google said: Plants use the energy of the sun to change water and carbon dioxide into a sugar called glucose. Glucose is used by plants for energy and to make other substances like cellulose and starch.
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Hey @Sabel this is a *really* interesting question!! What a cool thought.
The sugar we use in our kitchens is known as sucrose. It’s a more complicated structure (a disaccharide) than glucose (a monosaccharide), the sugar created by photosynthesis.
Plants and other photosynthesizers actually created all of the sugars in our ecosystems! They’ve never learned how to take them back out of the soil, because they’re the ones that produced them.
SO if you add sugar to your soil, your plant won’t know how to absorb it. But there are plenty of sneaky fungi that would love to eat it up. These are the kinds of fungi that you don’t want hanging around your plant’s roots so I wouldn’t recommend adding sugar to your soil.
Your plant has that covered, and they’re *really* good at it! If any other questions about this come up, I’m more than happy to keep chatting about it!!
The sugar we use in our kitchens is known as sucrose. It’s a more complicated structure (a disaccharide) than glucose (a monosaccharide), the sugar created by photosynthesis.
Plants and other photosynthesizers actually created all of the sugars in our ecosystems! They’ve never learned how to take them back out of the soil, because they’re the ones that produced them.
SO if you add sugar to your soil, your plant won’t know how to absorb it. But there are plenty of sneaky fungi that would love to eat it up. These are the kinds of fungi that you don’t want hanging around your plant’s roots so I wouldn’t recommend adding sugar to your soil.
Your plant has that covered, and they’re *really* good at it! If any other questions about this come up, I’m more than happy to keep chatting about it!!