The reasons of withering of leaves at houseplants are very various. It can be both natural process, and symptom of flower viral infection. Only having analyzed all complex of possible options, it is possible to find out the reason of dying off of leaves and to take necessary measures for rescue of favourite plant.
It is required to you
- Fertilizer for flowers, scissors.
Instruction
1. It is worth remembering that each plant, sooner or later, is subject to natural process of aging. Many flowers including room, need timely cutting, it allows to update plant krone, without it the lower leaves begin to fade. At window plants for which cutting is not provided just tear off the old dying-off leaves.
2. Often fading leaves signal you that watering of flowers is insufficient, or you have in the room too dry air. Find information on the houseplants, normalize watering and spraying. There are also such cases when the fading leaves speak, on the contrary, about excessive watering. For example, some grades of begonia do not transfer overwetting of the soil, from it their leaves begin to die off.
3. If in your house there are any tropical plants, and leaves have begun to fade at them, as much as possible reduce quantity of drafts, tropical plants them just do not take out. If you have conditioner, then even it can be the cause of withering of leaves of tropical plants, try to rearrange pots with flowers as it is possible further from the device. Do not forget that at the same time the plant should not suffer from lack of light.
4. By the way, about lighting. The lack of light is one of the reasons that leaves fade. The bulk of the died leaves at the same time is usually turned aside, opposite to luminous source. Some houseplants can even fall into the sleeping state. If it has occurred, then it is worth cutting off krone, having left above the ground only 10-15 cm.
5. If leaves of plant fade unevenly, and dies off only part of leaf, for example, on edge, then it demonstrates that fertilizers and fertilizing which you use are not suitable for this plant, or their quantity insufficiently. Try to replace type of flower fertilizers, trial and error method you will achieve optimum result.
6. Perhaps, the most dangerous reason of withering of leaves is viral infection. At the same time the leaf not only fades, but also previously is deformed. If you have noticed that it happens to one of your window plants, immediately get rid of it, otherwise also other plants can be infected.