Watering house plants with tonic water

[Bill]

I just found my wife giving some of our plants a drink of tonic water,
she swears blind that it is good for them, I have no idea if it is or
not. The only thought that I had was that they like to take in CO2 from
the air and convert it to O, so can they do the same via their roots?

Any thoughts welcome.


PS, it was 2 years out of date, so she is not completely do-lally. (she
asked me to add that bit as she did not wish to throw it down the sink!)
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Quinine will stop them getting malaria or cramp ;-)

[dennis@home]

On 01/02/2014 22:26, Bill wrote:

> I just found my wife giving some of our plants a drink of tonic water,
> she swears blind that it is good for them, I have no idea if it is or
> not. The only thought that I had was that they like to take in CO2 from
> the air and convert it to O, so can they do the same via their roots?
>
> Any thoughts welcome.

bottled acid rain with a bitter taste.

[Nick Odell]

On Sat, 01 Feb 2014 23:32:59 +0000, Part Timer <hhm.n...@gmail.com>
wrote:

..But the sugar will play merry hell with their Type 2 Diabetes

Nick

[Brian Gaff]

Erm, old co2? I can only think that as the co2 leaches out it rises past
the leaves and it increases the co2 for a short time.
What other ingredients are there in tonic water other than water?

Brian

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[Adrian]

On Sun, 02 Feb 2014 09:07:29 +0000, Brian Gaff wrote:

> What other ingredients are there in tonic water other than water?

http://www.schweppesus.com/products/schweppes-tonic-water
Ingredients: Carbonated Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Citric Acid,
Sodium Benzoate (preservative), Quinine, Natural Flavors

[John Williamson]

On 02/02/2014 09:07, Brian Gaff wrote:
> Erm, old co2? I can only think that as the co2 leaches out it rises past
> the leaves and it increases the co2 for a short time.
> What other ingredients are there in tonic water other than water?
>
>

Sugar, carbon dioxide, and quinine, in order of weight, and probably a
load of other E numbers if it's made by a cheapie maker. Sugar used to
be recommended as a way of prolonging the life of cut flowers in a vase.


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[Graham.]

So more akin to an embalming fluid than a health drink ;-)




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[The Natural Philosopher]

On 02/02/14 09:07, Brian Gaff wrote:
> Erm, old co2? I can only think that as the co2 leaches out it rises past
> the leaves and it increases the co2 for a short time.
> What other ingredients are there in tonic water other than water?
>
> Brian
>

bit of sweetener, bit of quinine. Nothing to bother plants id have thought.


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[robgraham]

On Sunday, February 2, 2014 5:37:28 PM UTC, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 02/02/14 09:07, Brian Gaff wrote:
>
> > Erm, old co2? I can only think that as the co2 leaches out it rises past
>
> > the leaves and it increases the co2 for a short time.
>
> > What other ingredients are there in tonic water other than water?
>
> >
>
> > Brian
>
> >
>
> bit of sweetener, bit of quinine. Nothing to bother plants id have thought.
>
>
>
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> (in-ep-toc'-ra-cy) - a system of government where the least capable to

>
> lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the
>
> members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are
>
> rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a
>
> diminishing number of producers.

I made the mistake of assuming some tins of Schweppes Tonic Water in my mother's house were in date. One mouthful proved very much otherwise; they were a year or so out of the Use by Date, and had clearly deteriorated noticeably.

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In message <86b849bd-2607-4096...@googlegroups.com>,
robgraham <robkg...@btinternet.com> writes

>
>I made the mistake of assuming some tins of Schweppes Tonic Water in my
>mother's house were in date. One mouthful proved very much otherwise;
>they were a year or so out of the Use by Date, and had clearly
>deteriorated noticeably.

Obviously too little gin :-)

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[John Williamson]

Medicinal, certainly. It was first made in the days when the British
Empire was very well established in malaria zones. The quinine was used
as an anti-malarial medication, but is so bitter that sugar is needed to
make it palatable.

[The Natural Philosopher]

and lacing it with gin made it socially acceptable

the same principle as grog


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[Brian Gaff]

I was just trying to get my head around what ages or goes out of date in a
sealed bottle of Tonic water. None of those ingredients should go off so to
speak.
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[John Williamson]

On 03/02/2014 14:49, Tim Streater wrote:
> In article <lco808$c5r$9...@dont-email.me>, Jethro_uk
> <jeth...@hotmailbin.com> wrote:

>
>> On Sun, 02 Feb 2014 23:00:14 +0000, Brian Gaff wrote:
>>
>> > I was just trying to get my head around what ages or goes out of date
>> > in a sealed bottle of Tonic water. None of those ingredients should go
>> > off so to speak.
>> > brain
>>

>> That's a little like seeing a "Best Before" date on a bottle of water
>> extolling the virtues of being filter over "millions of years" through
>> the rock.
>
> Is there however not some chance that the ingredients will interact
> with each other?
>
The problm with plastic bottles of mineral water is that the
plasticisers leach into the water over time, and after the "Use by"
date, may be at a higher than legally permitted concentration.

[dochol...@gmail.com]

On Monday, February 3, 2014 3:13:43 PM UTC, John Williamson wrote:
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>
> The problm with plastic bottles of mineral water is that the
> plasticisers leach into the water over time, and after the "Use by"
> date, may be at a higher than legally permitted concentration.
>

I've also noticed that the CO2 in sparkling mineral water gets lost over time - presumably because the plastic is slightly permeable, since I've not noticed the same effect when glass bottles are used...

[John Williamson]

On 03/02/2014 15:39, Tim Streater wrote:
> In article <bl9q17...@mid.individual.net>, John Williamson

> <johnwil...@btinternet.com> wrote:
>> The problm with plastic bottles of mineral water is that the
>> plasticisers leach into the water over time, and after the "Use by"
>> date, may be at a higher than legally permitted concentration.
>

> Ah. Does that mean that one should not re-use such bottles, or does
> such leaching stop after a while, or would the cessation of such
> leaching only be because the bottle is about to crumble to dust?
>
The makers do recommend against re-use, but I can't guess why, unless
it's a profit protection thing or one of the causes you mention. I have
heard reports of a bad taste developing after refilling a few times,
allegedly due to bacterial growth, especially in the "Sports" type
bottle with its complex stopper.

[Ian]

replying to Bill, Ian wrote:
Does this make the plant glow under a blacklight?

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