One of the most widespread problems of flower growers who are engaged in cultivation of tulips are faded leaves. They hang, fall to the earth. As a result all species of plant even if with flower everything is all right, is lost.
Violation of the water mode
The reasons of withering of leaves at tulips can be a little. First of all, perhaps, it should be taken into account possible violations of the water mode because this reason to eliminate the easiest, and then to exclude. If leaves continue to remain sluggish, so plants lack no element, or they are overcome by diseases and wreckers.
Tulips – hygrophilous plants. For forming of healthy bulb which gives beautiful peduncle they need a lot of moisture. Moisture comes to plant as follows: at first – in bulb, then – on stalk to flower, and in the last turn – to leaves. If in the soil of moisture is not enough, leaves will lack it too, and they will hang. To exclude this factor, it is necessary to spill properly tulips water.
Perhaps watering sufficient, but weather very hot. Tulips – early spring flowers and heats do not love. When landing tulips it is better to choose places where there is no bright sun which can be at the end of spring or the beginning of summer too hot. If the place is chosen as solar, and leaves at tulips have hung, try to spray plants and at noon to cover from the sun.
Shortage of nutritious elements
If it is not watering, it is quite probable that bulbs of tulips lack nutritious elements. Shortage too first of all is reflected in leaves. Again watering will help. This time with mineral fertilizer. If the reason in the shortage of moisture, after evening watering the next morning the leaflets become healthy again and will rise. After compensation of shortage of nutritious elements flowers need more time to come to the normal state. You can notice changes to the best in about 3-4 days.
Diseases and wreckers
But if, despite all taken measures, leaves and remained sluggish, have begun to turn yellow and dry, so your tulips are sick or damaged by wreckers. There are about thirty mushroom diseases to which tulips can be exposed. The most dangerous of them – fusariosis, gray decay and sklerotsialny decayed. They damage bulb. And in this case sluggish leaves can be signal that all plant will die. To make sure available mushroom infection, it is necessary to take from the soil one plant with the hung leaves together with bulb and to examine. If the bulb is damaged, it is necessary to process all plants. From mushroom diseases the earth under tulips needs to be watered with copper medicines (copper vitriol). If there is no vitriol near at hand – saturated solution of potassium permanganate. It is possible to spray all plants with one-percentage solution of the Bordeaux mix. From wreckers the onions tick is most widespread on tulips. He can be found at survey of bulb in which the wrecker makes the courses. With the plantation infected with tick arrive as follows. bulbs are dug out and before bookmark on winter storage are processed by hot water of +45 °C within five minutes. The next year it is better to break bed of tulips in other place.