Powdery mildew (leucorrhoea). Signs of illness.
The first sign of powdery mildew affecting your favorite houseplant is white bloom on the leaves. The stems are gradually affected, and as a result, the whole plant is completely: the leaves wither, darken, dry out and fall off. And this is already a sure sign of the death of the whole flower.
Treatment methods
All is not lost and the plant can be saved if you realize in time that it is affected by a disease. Carefully examine the flower and if you find a white bloom on the surface of the leaves, immediately pick them off and treat the whole plant with a soda solution: pour water into a liter jar and add 3 grams. soda, stir and spray the whole flower.
Another treatment option is soapy: 20 grams of green soap and 2 grams of copper sulfate are dissolved in a liter of water. Sometimes they use a combination of the first and second options: mix soda with soap (for a liter of water, 4 grams of soda plus 3 grams of soap). There are methods of treatment with the use of chemicals, for example, ground sulfur - in the form of crushed powder. Usually, a diseased plant is pollinated on a warm early morning, in dry weather, when there is no wind. Frequency - every week.
Traditional methods of treatment
For a long time, at first, plants of the garden-garden type were treated, and then, when they realized the effectiveness, they began to use them on indoor plants. This method is based on cow dung. Take cow dung (1 part), dilute in water (3 parts) and leave for 3 days. To treat a plant that is affected by a disease, it must be diluted with infusion with water in a ratio of 1: 3. Well, if you live in a city, how can you replace manure? Rotted hay or leaves, caked dust will do.
In the apartment, you can use garlic (25 grams), which is crushed and defended in 1 liter of water for a whole day. From their own experience, many experts advise treating flowers for diseases and lesions in the evening, and preferably on the street or on an open balcony, especially if these are methods using garlic or cow dung. The frequency of treatment and treatment is a week.
My name is Evgenia. I live in Jerusalem in an apartment with a garden. I bought some grown-up fuchsias in bloom and put them in the garden in a moderately sunny place. I water abundantly every day
(summer temperature is 30-33). All fuchsias are sick with something, some of the branches have dried up and they look just poor and unhappy !. Is it possible to save them. It seems to me that this is not powdery mildew. Help me please!
do you need to water so often? Perhaps you have filled them in