'Plant mother' shares simple trick to make your plants 'grow wonders overnight'

29 February 2024 , 11:07

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Treat your plants to a coffee and watch them thrive (Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto)

If you have any plants in your home you’ll know that keeping some of them alive can feel like an uphill battle. Are you watering them enough? Too much? Do they have enough light? Well, now one ‘plant mother’ has revealed her tip for keeping indoor shrubs blooming, claiming they'll even grow exponentially overnight.

Violet Witchel, who goes by violet.cooks on TikTok, and usually shares delicious recipes with her followers. However, in one clip, Violet opened up about her green fingers, remarking that she considers herself to be cultivated in the arts of horticulturism.

She told her 2.2 million fans: “I am an exceptional plant mother. Like, my plants absolutely thrive, and I've raised most of them from babies.” Showing off her glorious monstera, she boasted, “Like, this guy was tiny when I bought him.”

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Sharing her trick, she revealed that lately, she’d been trying out a method that had her plants growing like “crazy”. She revealed: “I basically take my used Nespresso pods, which are pretty much just coffee grounds, and then I cut out the little cover thing. This is also super sustainable, too. Then I just kind of rinse the contents of the pod out into a little container.

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“Sometimes it gets stuck to the edges, so you have to scoop it out with, like, fork or something, and you should get this, like, nasty coffee slurry. And then I just water my plants with the slurry once a week, and it provides so much nitrogen for them and makes them grow so fast.”

Nitrogen is a vital ingredient for healthy plants because it is a major component of chlorophyll, which plants need for photosynthesis. There are lots of ways of adding nitrogen to the soil, and coffee grounds are one of the easiest. Other options include animal blood, animal manure tea, and diluted human urine. Safe to say, coffee is the least problematic.

Eve Wagstaff