What should you do when houseplants attract pests? Learn this one trick and you won't need to buy insecticide

If your flowers are sick and you don't treat them, how can they ever bloom in a full pot? Today, Huahua is going to teach everyone how to effectively prevent and control several common pests and diseases. The methods are simple and easy to learn at a glance! If you want to never worry about your flowers again, take a quick look~

Spider mites

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Spider mites are very small, about the size of a pinprick, nearly round, and reddish-brown. They are not easy to spot. Their main harm is causing flower leaves to turn yellow and even drop off.

Prevention and control methods:

1. Improve ventilation, pay attention to the undersides of leaves, and immediately remove any individual diseased leaves you find.

2. If there are many diseased leaves, you can spray them with chili water or tobacco leaf water.

Boil red chilies in water and strain them out. Let the boiled chili water cool, then mix 1 bowl of chili water with two bottles of clean water evenly. When spraying, do not spray too much at once. Increasing the amount gradually will give better results.

If you have tobacco leaves, you can use tobacco leaf water. The preparation method is similar to chili water. Be careful not to use too much.

For chemical control, you can use propargite, dicofol, dimethoate, Huachongjing, fenvalerate, and others.

Powdery mildew

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Powdery mildew is a disease commonly found on flowers. Generally, flowers such as Chinese roses, roses, chrysanthemums, and impatiens are prone to infection, and succulents are also susceptible to powdery mildew.

Prevention and control methods:

1. Clean off the leaves infected with powdery mildew, disinfect and sterilize with carbendazim, then improve ventilation and avoid a humid environment.

2. You can use baijiu to treat powdery mildew:

Dilute 35° baijiu with water about 100 times, then spray it on the diseased leaves.

Scale insects

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Scale insects mainly harm the leaves, branches, and fruits of flowers, causing yellow leaves and withering. Jasmine, camellia, and succulents are relatively prone to scale insect infestation.

Prevention and control methods:

1. First remove diseased branches and leaves, and burn them as much as possible to avoid reinfection.

2. Simple household prevention and control methods:

Mix 1 part baijiu with 2 parts water, and water the surface layer of the soil thoroughly. Water once every 15 days. Four consecutive times will show results.

Dilute vinegar with water 2~3 times. Use a cotton swab dipped in the diluted vinegar to apply it to diseased leaves and branches. You can also use cotton. This can both remove pests and help the leaves turn green again.

Anthracnose

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Anthracnose mainly harms orchid leaves, and sometimes also infects stems and fruits.

Prevention and control methods:

1. Cut off the parts with disease spots, improve ventilation, and increase light.

2. Simple household prevention and control methods:

Mix baking soda and water at 1:500 evenly, and spray it on the flowers.

Take a piece of ginger and mash it into a paste, add water at 20 times the amount and soak for 12 hours. After filtering, spray the filtrate on the affected plant.

Mix chive juice and clean water at a ratio of 1:60, then spray it on the flowers. Spray 2 times a day for 15 consecutive days.

Mix quicklime powder and clean water at a ratio of 1:60. Use the upper clarified liquid to spray around the flowers to prevent and control anthracnose.

Aphids

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Aphids are commonly known as greasy bugs or honey bugs. They reproduce very quickly and damage flowers and leaves. They usually hide on the undersides of leaves.

Aphids should be discovered and treated early. When only a small number first appear, you can directly remove them by hand.

Prevention and control methods:

1. Use a cotton swab to wipe them off or pinch them off with your fingers.

2. Soapy water. Slice soap and dissolve it in hot water, then mix it evenly with clean water at a ratio of 1:60. After it cools, spray it on the flowers.

3. In severe cases, you can use Huahuashen, imidacloprid, yashijing, and others, spraying continuously 3-4 times to completely eradicate them.

Whiteflies

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This small insect, the whitefly, can make leaves lose their green color, turn yellow, wilt, and even cause the whole plant to die. They are generally on the undersides of leaves.

Prevention and control methods:

1. Fertilize reasonably. Do not apply too much nitrogen fertilizer. This can improve the flowers' ability to resist whiteflies.

2. You can use garlic water and sulfur powder to prevent and control whiteflies:

Take one head of garlic, mash it, add one bottle of water, stir well, and filter. Spray the leaves with the garlic water once a day for 3~4 consecutive times. You can also use a brush or toothbrush to apply the garlic liquid to places with whiteflies, and it takes effect immediately!

Before using sulfur powder, first moisten the leaf surface with clean water, then sprinkle on the sulfur powder. Mainly sprinkle it where whiteflies first appeared, and try not to sprinkle it elsewhere.

Have you learned the methods to prevent and control pests and diseases?

If you have flowers at home that are suffering

then quickly try the steps above!

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