The majority of species of cacti are unpretentious in leaving and can please for many years with the beauty and unusual form. However there are many factors which can lead to plant disease. The correct and timely treatment will help to keep cactus.
It is required to you
- - fungicide;
- - sulfur;
- - brilliant green.
Instruction
1. Attentively examine surface of cactus, its needle and flowers. Any atypical change - reason for concern and acceptance of timely measures. Foreign raid, change of color, drying - symptoms of various diseases which need to be diagnosed in time and immediately to treat.
2. Provide to plant optimal conditions, choose the necessary temperature condition and conform to the rules of watering. At the wrong leaving (for example, frequent watering in cold season) protective functions of your cactus decrease, and it can face phytophthora. This widespread fungal disease which is very easily transmitted from one plant to another at difficult environment. In essence, it is cactaceous decay which strikes plant at the basis, gradually thinning it. In this case exit only one - cutting the begun to rot pulp and dehumidification of cactus. The cut needs to be processed any fungicide. After the phytophthora is stopped, the plant can be implanted again.
3. Try to stop development of fungal infection at initial stage. Types of such diseases affecting cacti there are several dozen. Fusariosis, gelmintosporioz, pirenoforoz, rizoktonioz - the most widespread of them. It is visually quite difficult to define infection type. The disease can cause emergence of dry or brown spots, trunk curvature, falling off of flowers, decay. If you want to keep plant, it is necessary to cut anyway affected area, and to process cut sulfur, brilliant green or fungicide. Some diseases of cacti - brown decay, dry rot (fomoz) - strike plant from within and do not recover.
4. Do not put your plant in the sun and during cold. Direct sunshine or too low temperature can be the cause of emergence of brown or red spots on cactus. Such diseases are not connected with bacterial and fungal infections, but can be the cause for their distribution. The affected area needs to be disinfected several times. If the wound has begun to dry and drag on, it is the good sign confirming recovery of cactus.