Okay, so I went and found some of the more interesting cinnamon articles for you guys.
A basic knowledge of cinnamon:
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?pfriendly=1&tname=foodspice&dbid=68&PHPSESSID=8ad5f2e051499a5092fb0f2027d1865f

The recent chewing gum research:
http://tigger.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/newsbureau/cgi-bin/index.cgi?from=Releases&to=PrintRelease&id=735&fromhome=1

My favorite historical tidbit:
http://www.kitchendoctor.com/articles/four_thieves.html

Interestingly, only one of the recipes includes cinnamon, but it comes up as being in the tincture on many other sites. Generally, the components mentioned most frequently are cinnamon, clove, and either rosemary or oregano.

So, there you go - use cinnamon for happy healthy plants! I also found a story suggesting that cinnamon oil is a very good mosquito repellent. :confused:

Here is another article related to Orchids and Cinnamon.
http://www.orchidssa.co.za/growingo.htm

I have also heard of water steeped in garlic being a mosquito repellent and a organic pesticide

Park Bear that might be really stinky :poke: All I would need to do is eat a few large cloves of it, and it come sout of my pores. Kind of gross I know!

my friend uses the cinnamon on broken leaves he seems to do well with it

Park Bear that might be really stinky :poke: All I would need to do is eat a few large cloves of it, and it come sout of my pores. Kind of gross I know!

It doesn't impart taste on apples and you can't smell it, but the bugs can and they don't like it just like us humans