Can I create a cannibalistic plant?

In My Humble Opinion
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With a diabolical subject like that, you’re sure to be disappointed with the actual question. But, I made you look!

Anyway, I eat a ton of oranges. I just really like them, but I hate throwing away the vitamin rich skins that have just got to be good for something. I’m also growing a lemon tree, which is about three feet tall. So, in a flash of brilliance, I put some orange peels in a food processor and prepared to feed the resulting coarse gruel to my tree.

It was then that I thought, “Isn’t this really acidic?” and paused to ask the dopers before I kill what I have grown from a seed over the last few years.

Thus, my question: are ground-up orange skins too acidic to use as lemon-tree food? I also have a sprawling basil plant, how about for that one?

Thanks for any advice.

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Well it’d be quite unordinary and probably require gene splicing but I believe that a pitcher plant or fly-trap plant could be gnetically induced to grow to larger proportions that it would need small mamalian type animals for protein intake. However don’t expect anything like * Little shop of Rocky Horror* without some major gene splicing. And overall I’d say not worth it.

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I would reccomend posting your actual question in GQ with a descriptive title, since this seems as if it would have a concrete answer.