Every amateur gardener sooner or later have to face the problem appears on the surface of the soil of house plants strange flight. The assumption that it can be such and where there are many. Common causes are:
- wetlands with simultaneous lack of heat in the room: cool and moisturized environment is ideal for the breeding of fungal organisms;
- water stagnation; If no holes in pots to remove excess water, plaque appears inevitable;
- poor quality water for irrigation.
What causes damage to the plants appeared plaque:
- Slowing growth and development of plants.
- Disturbed soil acidity and mineral composition deteriorates: the plant throws off the leaves, not dopoluchaya nutrients.
- It reduces the intensity of the supply oxygen plant roots, formed on the surface of the crust prevents air exchange.
- The development of fungal and other diseases in flower: the emergence of aphids and black flies, rotting roots.
Ways of dealing with white bloom in a pot
Before you start the fight, it is important to understand the root causes of the problem. Once you are ready to fight for a simple way to beautiful and healthy soil.
- Remove and discard the contaminated layer. In no case can not loosen the soil, mixing the affected layer with a healthy deep.
- For the vacant place in pots to fill up bactericidal substrate. It is sold in any flower shop. However, if none is found, it should be replaced with peat or charcoal. A 1 cm would be sufficient.
Interesting! Some gardeners instead of special soil and soil substrates covered with earth pounded activated carbon. If your medicine cabinet has given the drug, it is quite a way out to help save the situation.
- Regularly loosen the soil in plant pots. Once a week, after 1-2 hours after watering or bathing plants, the soil should be proryhlit garden fork. Carefully without damaging the roots!
- Undertake further prevention of deep soil contamination - to pour a solution of water with fundazol (2g. 1 liter of water). Fundazol - a drug that fights with spores of fungal organisms, to prevent plant diseases. Watering flower this cocktail should be for 2-3 weeks.
- Any watering plants to carry out only the filtered (!) Water at room temperature. If there are regular bathing house flowers in the shower, make sure that the water temperature was not hot or iced.
- Avoid stagnation of water in the pots pans. After bathing or watering the plant to give 1 hour, then to remove the residual water tray or pallet.
Important! If the soil is strongly impressed by mold or coating, the best solution would be a complete replacement of the soil and transplanting. Earth completely replaced pots pre-clean brush of the remaining clots and plaque former substrate. I will be very pleased if you share this note in their social networks.
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