Body Building

[goodgourd]

Daft question, but what would happen if you feed veg with bodybuilding powder, e.g. promass or the like.  Its high in protien and fats.

[goodgourd]

[woppa30]

You will waste a lot of money, attract rats and end up with a  foul smelling mess.
Plants cannot absorb complex molecules like fats and proteins, they make them from simple nutrients (N, P and K etc + trace elements) water, sunlight and CO2. The sugars produced are then used in other chemical processes to make fats and proteins within the plant.


David

[Chrispy]

Protein and fat molecules are too large to be taken up by a plant.

Eventually, the powder would break down, you would be left with carbon dioxide, water and some nitrates.

If you did try to feed a plant a lot of body building  powder, in the long term it would be the equivalent of giving them bit of a water and a tiny amount on nitrogen fertiliser.

[Robert_Brenchley]

You break that stuff down naturally. Feed your plants on the product, it's free.

[Good Gourd 2]

Thank you, I thought as much its just that my son had a whole tub of the stuff that he is throwing away.  Just a thought. Into the  bin it goes.  Thanks.