RESTORATION OF ROOM FLOWERS AT FLOOR AND OVERDry

Filling and drying of indoor plants

The plant may need it, eg, because of the bay, overdrying of the substrate or pest damage.

1. DRYING OF HOME FLOWERS

Symptoms: the leaves have lost their turgor and are hanging, like rags, earthen ball when probed with a finger

You can not immediately water the plant abundantly.. The roots do not work well and cannot immediately absorb a large amount of moisture, then overdrying will abruptly turn into another critical state - the bay. To prevent this from happening, I give water to the plant 2 st.l.. once every half hour. I add "Zircon" to it, and I spray the crown once a 3 days with "Epin" - until 3 drops on a glass. I cover with a package for a day. If the plant no longer loses its turgor, no longer harboring. With a significant improvement in the condition, I cancel the drugs.

2. BAY

Symptoms: yellowing of leaves, the appearance of dark brown spots on them, loss of turgor, massive leaf fall, earthen ball is very wet.

I take a plant out of the pot, clearing the earth (at the maximum) and examine the root system. With a sterile sharp knife (rubbing with alcohol every time) cut off the rot, grabbing living tissue on 2 mm. Sprinkle the wounds with crushed wood (activated) charcoal or ground cinnamon. If thick and fleshy roots rot (kakugippeastrum, clever), I process the sections with undiluted preparation "Maxim". After pruning, I dry the plants with thin roots at room temperature 3-5 hours, with fleshy - a day or two. I transplant into a new DRY(!) soil and a clean pot with large drainage holes and a layer of expanded clay (1/4-1/5 tank height). I don't water the flower for several days. If turgor persists and leaves do not fall, I spray the crown with "Epin", but I don't cover it with a package. Otherwise, I cover and tie around the stem, but not around the pot, so as not to hinder the evaporation of excess moisture from the surface of the earth. Periodically, gently loosen the soil. After the substrate dries well, somewhere on 3 cm, I begin to gently water with small portions of water (by 1 st.l.), adding "Zircon".

If due to rot there are practically no healthy roots left, then reanimate in water, moss sphagnum, vermiculite (pearls), depending on, which plant is left without roots. for example, scindapsus, ivy and spathiphyllum give them great in water. I add a tablet of activated carbon and "Zircon" to it. In a day I put "Kornevin" on the tip of a knife. Bulbous roots form well on barely damp vermiculite (pearls), anthurium - in mhe.

3. Pests

Symptoms: spider mite leaves white dots on the leaves, cobweb; mealybug - "cotton" lumps; shield (leathery "plaques") - sticky liquid. Whitefly (white small "mole") and thrips (dark flying) can be seen with the naked eye.

Pests feed on plant cell sap and weaken it. When there are a lot of them, this can be a threat to the life of a green pet. There is a long way to fight: shower, soap solutions, folk recipes. And short: insecticides and acaricides, which spray and shed the soil. However, if a flower, in addition to the presence of pests, was also flooded, then it cannot be moistened even with a solution of the drug. I only spray or wash the crown, protecting the earth from water ingress: put the pot in a bag and tie the handles around the stem. Likewise with overdried specimen. Therefore, focus on the state of the plant in each case..

© Author: Inna KRAVCHENKO, experienced florist.