Sweet success?

[ike]

If I watered my strawberry plants with a sugar solution, will they taste sweeter? (well it does say 'off-topic' doesn't it?).

 

[Alf]

Dunno, Ike, they might turn out as little pots of strawberry jam instead...

Cheers, Alf

 

[Chris Knight]

Apart from attracting pests like slugs and aphids, I should think the water will evaporate, the sugar will crystallise, clogging the leaves and preventing transpiration and the plants will die a slow, horrible death, screaming faintly for a while.

 

[kityuser]

my grandpa used to say that good manure made them sweeter...........
just make sure you wash them before you eat them.....

 

[ike]

I'd do it scientifically - honest! You know, just water them around the base and rig a small electric slug fence off a PP3.

 

[Anonymous]

Can't see 9V effecting slugs much

 

[ike]

9V might be overkill to a slug

 

[johnjin]

Hi Tony

Get a PP3 battery and put your tongue on the two terminals and you will be surprised by the power that is in a PP3 battery. :shock:

All the best

John

 

[ike]

From a slugs eye perspective, a PP3 battery would look a pretty damn big piece of kit with fence wire as thick as scaffold tube. A slug should be worried.

 

[Alf]

I've never thought of slugs as the worrying type before. :?

Isn't copper s'posed to be very good for anti-slug protection? Maybe they short themselves out without the aid of a battery or something... :shock:

Cheers, Alf

 

[Adam]

Remember, slugs and 'orrible things are just what hedgehogs need to live on, so you could maybe just accept the slugs may nibble the odd plant, but you'll be helping a little hedgehog somewhere? :roll: :roll: 8)

Adam

 

[ike]

Now, there a point. I may have to go and experiment in my secret laboratory. Anyway, if the slug fence doesn't work, I wonder how sweet the slugs.... no, no don't even think about it! Actually, my niece when about 3, used to snack on them regularly and it clearly did no harm - well..erm.. not that I'll ever no any different that is. :shock:

 

[Anonymous]

Hi Tony

Get a PP3 battery and put your tongue on the two terminals and you will be surprised by the power that is in a PP3 battery. :shock:

All the best

John

How can you be sure the slugs will put their tongue across the terminals :wink:
Shock is all to do with current flow until the voltage becomes huge and then you will be fried regardless.

Ohms law (V=I*R) determines the current through a body at DC and for a human 30mA or so is potentially fatal at 240V. At 9va a human cannot even feel the current flow.

I have no idea about the current that a slug could sustain but doubt that 9V will do much - although the lovely slime might well reduce their resistance and thus increase current flow.
I shall of course torture a slug later with a PP3 in the interests of science as they keep eating my tomatos and lettuces.

Cheers

Tony

Edited for spelling as I can't type very well

 

[ike]

Ooh..errr, does oyur reistnac realyy make a differencee :wink:

 

[Anonymous]

This is what I like about this forum, where else can you get such a diverse range of subjects for discussion like - the relative merits of the resistance (no pun intended ) of slugs to a PP3 battery !

anyway, wouldn't slugs be self earthing so low to the ground

 

[ike]

Well, if this topic achieved nothing else, it lightened an otherwise tedious afternoon at work Thanks too all for the responses!.

 

[sawdustalley]

I thought even if you just ran copper wire (no voltage) that the slugs will react with it anyhow? :?: :x