10 Surprising Tips For Keeping Your Plants Healthy And Pest-Free

It is well known that no garden can be completely pest-free but you can definitely control it. Identifying pests or insects at the initial stage and taking steps to eliminate them can be a primary treatment for eliminating diseases of flowers and plants.

Your local pest control organization can help you to know which diseases related to your flowers and plants can harm your garden at your local level and what you should be aware of so that you can get guidance on how to take effective measures if you are a farmer or a flower grower in the garden.

Some of the pests and insects are described below.

Powdery Mildew

This is a fungal disease and infrequently poses critical disturbance, if not identified and control measures taken in time.

The very first indication one notices is a minor rolling of the lead margin, but quickly the young petals become crinkle and distorted, showing whitish-gray patches and the disease spreads swiftly.

In a few diversities of roses, the footstalks of the buds and flowers become protected with a powdery white covering. The spots grow very fast and form a rebuild of powdery mildew on the outside of the petals.

In various parts of the world, it is helpful that mildew is only periodically serious. A damp and cold climate is ideal for the occurrence and instant spread of the disease in all situations.

Though the disease itself once it has entered the plant cannot be cured, it can surely be restricted from increasing.

It should be considered here that there is a great deal of diversification in the similar vulnerability of garden roses to Powdery Mildew.

And if mildew has appeared in your neighborhood a precautionary spray should be urgently given. Under such atmospheres & situations, the whole plant will be injured, petals will fall, flowers will be distorted and fresh growth will be critically influenced.

The popular rambler Dorothy Perkins is almost always veiled in mildew! Where rose species are known to be resistant or to be particularly vulnerable this is recognized in the list of varieties that can easily identified.

If the disease shows up in your local area, it will be cunning to have the spray treatment as a preventive measure. White spraying, the accompanying hedge plants should also be sprayed as a little often the germs start from the neighboring plants.

Of course, the atmosphere must be clean and the plants should be vigorous. It is better to keep away the diversity of the plants which are known to be vulnerable to powdery mildew. The disease disappears with the rise in temperature.

If the above fungicides are not provided instantly, it will be a good practice to spray the plants with a dilute soap solution containing a little flower of sulfur or dust the foliage with the flower of sulfur.

The hedges can be intelligently and efficiently treated with soap solution. The ingredients are dissolved separately and mixed before use. The solution should not be acidic, but either neutral or slightly alkaline.

Damping Off

This fungous disease is caused by a number of fungi. Mainly small seedlings or soft cuttings before or after rooting may perish because of this. The diseased stem just above the soil are identify to root.

Black spot

This fungal disease is rare, or in another word not very ordinary in India, but it may be a critical challenge in dull cold weather of the temperate region.

The influenced petals show, on both the lower and upper sides of leafs, black spots with bordered edges. The spots build up, enlarge and join adhere.

These spots accumulate and enlarge and join together; after a while the leave becomes yellowish and falls. This leads to premature defoliation of the rose bush and weakens it.

No garden rose among the Hybrid Teas presents to be immune to it, though some are much less vulnerable than others. Black Spot is not yet a major disease of roses in India but may become one if precautions are not taken.

Die-back

Factually advising, the term Die-back express a syndrome because the situation to which it is applied may be the occurrence of certain, sometimes unrelevant, causes.

Die-back starts from the pruned end of stem and also at the bud union. The older shoots are more prone to attack than the younger shoots.

This can be stopped by taking right precautions at the time of pruning. The only cure treatment is to cut away the troubled parts and burn it.

This is suggested by plant pathologists to be a weak parasite which tends to attack tissues already breaking down from other matters.

The nasty trend of Die-back show up to be boosted by the existence of cankers on the stem without any extra effort identified by the appearance of dark tan lesions.

The cut should be slanting with a sharp and clean secateur, well below the influenced part on the strong pith and cut outside urgently protected with soil paste.

In the case of insanitation starting on the snag, the cut should be as near the bud union as possible and shielded with soil paste or soil mound.

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Pests:

Mealybug

People who are involved in gardening and garden cultivation are not unaware of mealybug.

Talking about the appearance, it is a small white closed hard shell made of cotton-like material and these pests are seen to cause immense damage to the plants.

These pests become capable of reproducing in a very short period of time and their numbers increase to an alarming extent and as a result the leaves of the plant turn yellow and eventually fall off, and the entire flowering plant is eventually destroyed.

Life cycle of Mealybug:

If we talk about the life cycle of mealybug, first it is in the form of a white and waxy substance, then it transforms into a small white hard substance and when the disease seems to be getting worse, it is seen in its fully developed state.

In this species of mealybug pest, the female mealybug is slightly larger in size than the male mealybug and it lays eggs in groups or in large quantities. The life span of the male mealybug is very short and it dies within a very short period of time after reproducing.

If we look at it this way, most of the flowers do not have much negative impact from pests and diseases, but often due to adverse weather conditions and not providing proper fertilizer and water, pests appear.

Most of the diseases can be prevented, but some diseases are very dangerous, such as:

Botrytis

This is one of the most common diseases seen in flower plants. In which the symptoms of this disease appear after seasonal changes such as extremely cold weather or excessive rainfall.

In which mainly the leaves lose their vitality and dry up, and a gray-colored coating is seen on the leaves.

Virus Diseases

There are a number of them and are often challenging to detect because the indications they cause may vary with different species.

Chlorotic areas may be outcomes, there may be very distinct vein-banding or the leafs may be distorted. As a group they have so far not been acknowledged of very great essential in roses.

Countries like Australia and New Zealand, however, take binding precautions against the possible announcement of viruses in essential propagative material.

If only a plant or two in doubtable to be poisoned it is better to destroy it since virus diseases are almost impossible to cure.

Remedies

(1) The best solution for this is to spray a liquid medicine, in which neem oil (margosa tree oil)or insecticides available in the market can be used.

(2) If the disease is severe, then removing that part from the plant is also a good option.

(3) Excessive watering should not be given and water should be applied only to the roots. Do not pour water on the leaves and branches as this can also lead to the development of botrytis.