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Can plants grow in dishwasher soap?

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No. Dish soap can be used to kill off some common pests such as aphids, but large amounts or failing to wash it off can chemically burn the leaves. I cant imagine what the roots would do! I expect a plant growing in dish soap would die in a day or two.

Actually, I did a science project that included using dish soap on plants instead of water and the plant turned out very good. It's true that the soap protected the plant from aphids, but I had it growing, (mind you this was a baby plant), for a whole week and it did not die.

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no but you can add a couple of squirts of dish detergent to 1 quart water in spray bottle to rid many types of plant pests this does not kill the bugs but will many times prevent them from staying on the plants, and they move on this solution is not harmful to plants, so feel free to coat top, bottom of leaves, stems, and don't forget all crevices on the stems and branches i even spray the top of the soil, just in case

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