Chlorophytum (chlorophytum) is a perennial herb from the Asparagus family with narrow green leaves and antennae. Despite its resistance to most diseases, it can nevertheless sometimes suffer from some of them. Further information on the most common diseases of chlorophytum and treatment methods.
Why a plant can get sick
Improper conditions of detention or lack of immunity can lead to the appearance of diseases in a flower. Inadequate and excessive care can harm the plant.
Common Causes of Disease:
- waterlogging of the soil;
- insufficient lighting;
- low humidity in the room;
- sunburn;
- excess minerals in the soil;
Appearance of chlorophytum
- mechanical damage to the root system;
- lack of nutrients;
- cramped pot and heavy soil;
- Incorrect temperature conditions.
Important!This ornamental plant is considered useful for people with chronic lung diseases. They are recommended to grow this flower and take care of it.
Culture absorbs carbon dioxide and other harmful impurities in the air, while releasing volatile production - substances that kill pathogenic bacteria. For cultivation, Chlorophytum Crested, Cape, Winged or Curly is chosen.
Discards leaves
A plant may suffer from dropping leaves. The appearance of a mealybug on the flower can lead to this.
First, the foliage will fade, and then dumped. Also, the plant will encounter poor development and growth retardation. In the worst case, chlorophytum will die if measures are not taken to combat the pest. You can detect infection by secretions of the mealybug on the leaves - a white coating that resembles cotton wool.
At the first signs of infection, you should use a swab previously moistened in a soap solution. They need to wipe the leaves. Cleaning is needed for hard-to-reach places - leaf sinuses.
Also, for preventive purposes, you can use a solution of green soap, intended for spraying. It is necessary to process the plant with an interval of a week.
Special drugs will help to cope with the pest:
- Actar;
- Calypso;
- Biotlin.
Pest control
Each drug will be accompanied by a guide for use. To process the plant with one of the medicines is necessary within 7-14 days.
Attention! You can avoid infection by controlling watering and preventing an increase in humidity.
Another dropping of leaves may begin due to scutes, settled on the leaves and in their petioles. Before dropping, the foliage will fade and lose its luster. These insects damage the skin of the leaves and drink the juice of the plant.
The presence of scale insects is evidenced by sticky secretions on the leaves, leading to the rapid development of soot fungus. This will negatively affect the photosynthesis of the plant and subsequently will cause the death of the flower.
Rubbing leaves with alcohol will help get rid of scabs, and after spraying with the drug Karbofos or Actellik.
Important!To combat scabies and mealybug it is allowed to use garlic. It is chopped until gruel is formed, which is then greased with leaves. Processing will have to be carried out several times until the plant recovers.
Chlorophytum - home care: leaves turn yellow, what to do
The plant may lose its decorative color, and its crown may become pale. The fault is poor and inadequate lighting. This photophilous culture needs scattered sun rays. After a slight blanching of the crown, the flower should be moved to the windowsill. Additionally, you can use artificial lighting for the plant.
If the foliage of the plant began to turn very pale, then you need:
- Well moisten the soil.
- Feed the flower with special fertilizers for indoor plants.
- Move the flower pot to a bright place.
Many are also worried about why chlorophytum leaves turn yellow when they leave at home and what to do in this case. This can happen not only due to some diseases.
Most often, chlorophytum leaves turn yellow and dark spots appear due to improper conditions of detention. The causes of yellowing include:
- lack of moisture or its excess;
- mechanical damage to the plant;
- lack of nutrients;
- natural old age;
- Inappropriate pot.
Yellowing of chlorophytum leaves
If old leaves turn yellow, then there is nothing to worry about. You just need to get rid of them. Broken foliage indicates nutritional deficiency. In this case, the damaged areas are removed, and the plant itself is fed. If the reason for yellowing is a small pot, then it is changed to a more spacious one.
Dry, curl and wrinkle leaves or tips
Not everyone knows why the tips of leaves dry in chlorophytum. This can begin due to a lack of nutrients in the soil, excess salts, frequent urea, skipping irrigation, moistening not settled hard water.
Transplanting a plant into a pot with new soil will help to correct the situation. Proper timely watering and fertilizing will correct the fact that the tips of the leaves dry at the chlorophytum.
Leaves or their ends are subject to twisting and wrinkling. Lack of magnesium, fluoride and potassium in old leaves and molybdenum, copper and magnesium in young people can lead to this. Also, the leaves curl, wrinkle and may dry out due to:
- watering from a water supply system;
- drying out or filling the soil;
- pest attacks;
- too dry air at home;
- excess fertilizer.
You can cure the flower by following the rules for care.
Important! Diseases of chlorophytum can be nothing to do with - the cause can also be a thermal shock from heated glass.
Roots, leaves rot, frown trunk
Roots can rot and die due to excess moisture and heavy soil. This is usually encountered in the winter season. Rot on the roots becomes more visible when it reaches the aerial part of the plant. After this, the leaves may turn yellow and stain. In the end, they will begin to blacken and also rot.
If the disease has reached the surface, the trunk is black, and the leaves began to darken, then the affected bush can no longer be saved. In this case, only cuttings will help. It’s impossible to leave the whole chlorophytum; it is useless to treat it in this state.
The trunk of the plant may wrinkle due to drying out of the ground or insufficient lighting, in this case chlorophytum does not grow. This does not occur due to the attack of pests. This phenomenon is considered dangerous for the flower.
Attention! You can avoid undesirable consequences by transplanting into the softest soil and regularly spraying the bush.
Cuttings of chlorophytum
Pests
The main reason why chlorophytum does not shoot is the presence of pests. If you start to fight them on time, then the flower will get better. In addition to the mealybug and scale insects, a plant can be attacked by:
- Aphid. Symptoms - curling and drying leaves. For the fight, the drug Actellik is suitable.
- Nematode. Signs are stunted growth, foliage twisting, round growths on the roots. The best way to get rid is heat treatment.
- Spider mite. Manifestations are a thin web between leaves and a stalk. Treatment of the plant with Actellic will help.
Fans of indoor flowers must have information about the diseases and pests of chlorophytum. Then they will be able to competently care for the flower and will not lose the plant.
