Probably the most feared problem for most people who love flowers is pests and diseases, but pests and diseases are the most common and easiest problems for flowers. If flowers suffer from diseases and insect pests, it is easy to cause physical damage, such as yellow leaves, wormholes, and thin roots. If you want flowers to grow well, you must first identify pests and diseases, understand the cause of the disease, and then take the next step.
Aphid
Aphids are small, soft, green or black in color, and they gather on the young leaves, stems, and buds of flowers to absorb the sap of flowers. The presence of aphids can easily cause the leaves to turn yellow, shrink, and curl, and in severe cases, the branches and leaves will wither or even die. The most common pests in early spring are aphids.
Scale insects
Scale insects are 5-6 mm long and have a white scale outside the body. Scale insects are often found on the leaves, stems, buds and other places of flowers, sucking the sap of the flowers, and at the same time expelling the sugary mucus, causing many kinds of diseases and seriously causing the death of the whole plant.
Red spider
Red spiders are small and spider-like, and are generally difficult to see with the naked eye. Red spiders usually use their mouths to pierce the leaves to suck the juice, which destroys the chlorophyll on the leaves and seriously causes the death of the whole plant. Red spider mites are also one of the most feared pests of flowers. They mainly damage the leaves on both sides of the main vein, and plaques or small yellow spots can often be found on the infected leaves.
Water is one of the essential elements that are indispensable to all living things, animals as well as plants. Proper watering is another key to growing plants.
Water according to the type of flower:
1. Alternating wet and dry type
Such flowers require a lot of water. Usually the soil should be thoroughly watered when watering, but it is not necessary to keep the soil moist all the time. From spring to autumn, you only need to wait until the surface soil is dry before watering. In winter, you can even wait for about 1cm below the soil to dry before watering.
2. Semi-moist type
Semi-humid flowers need more water, usually from spring to autumn, they need to be watered frequently to keep the soil moisture, but the soil should not be over-saturated, otherwise the roots will rot easily. In winter, wait until the topsoil is dry before watering.
3. Full wet type
This flower needs to be watered so that the soil is completely infiltrated, and the soil must be kept moist at all times.
The last key point is lighting. Each flower has different light needs, which requires us to place them in the right place. We need to take the initiative to find out whether the flowers we grow like light or are more shade-tolerant. In fact, most indoor flower growth requires bright optical fibers, and even shade-tolerant flowers need to receive scattered light. Those flowers that are placed in places where there is no light at all should also be regularly moved to the balcony to receive sunlight.
