The complete guide to pest control for potted plants: easily solve your flower and plant pest troubles
Once summer arrives, as temperatures rise, plants easily attract pests. Not only do the flowers fail to grow well, but as a flower-growing enthusiast you also get very anxious, with pests flying all over the house, which is very distressing. Your first reaction is to go buy insecticide. Today, learn a few tricks with me to keep mosquitoes and insects away from your flowers. Be sure to remember them!
The first and simplest one is to bake them in the sun. It is best to find a black bag to cover them with, as it absorbs heat more easily. However, this method carries great risk and must be used for flowers that like sun exposure, such as jasmine, moss rose, and bougainvillea.
The second is watering and washing the leaves. Use water to wash the flower leaves clean; once the bacteria on the flowers themselves are gone, the insects will not come either. The above two methods are the simplest and can be done without any special preparation. Their main principle is to deal with the insect eggs and bacteria in the flowerpot, thereby achieving the effect of pest elimination.
Common insects on flowers generally include: aphids, red spider mites, scale insects, and snails. Next, based on the types of pests, I will recommend several methods that require a little hands-on work.
First, for snails, you can remove them by hand. After all, their numbers will not be too large; second, for aphids and red spider mites, you can use chili peppers to stimulate and repel them. Crush chili peppers or garlic, mix with water, and pour it on to repel the pests; for scale insects, use alcohol to repel them. Alcohol has a disinfecting effect. Wipe the flower leaves with alcohol mixed with water to repel the pests.
Besides these methods, you can also try soaking orange peel in water or using cigarette ash to repel pests. The most, most, most worth saving for later is that you can directly use the floral water you prepared for summer to repel pests for your flowers. Floral water has the effect of repelling mosquitoes and insects, so just wipe the flowers with it directly.
In fact, the main reason insects appear on flowers is the bacteria in the soil, and the first thing to solve is changing the soil. Not changing the soil for a long time, or casually using soil that has not been disinfected, both contain a large amount of bacteria, so to solve it well you need to repot the flowers.
Hurry up and learn these, get moving, and solve the problem naturally and harmlessly, no longer letting insects fly all over the house. Let the flowers say goodbye to "green" and burst out with a full pot of red blooms, giving you back a fresh, pest-free home.