How to prevent pests?
1. Buy healthy plants. Note that the producer Cactus and other succulents, to reduce costs, make some phytosanitary treatment. Beware of:
* If you see a red area of skin may mite attack.
* If you appreciate the kind of cotton mealybug, cotton.
* If you take a plant from the pot (this will be worth when you buy small specimens) and the roots of white spots, can be a root mealybug. Do not be confused with hard water residue. Big fish when you can check the factory and go if you are infected, return, or not to buy there.
2. Check plants regularly throughout the year. For example, a worm or a snail can break a fast.
3. You can perform preventive maintenance or fungal pests such as woodlice for watering crops. One spring, one in summer and one in autumn. Employing a systemic product to penetrate into the tissue of plants and insects eating the poison.
4. If pests or fungi have been submitted, do treatment every 10-15 days with the right products.
5. plants will be sprayed in summer with the heat, partially evaporated, so it is recommended to do so in the afternoon and add some oil to extend the fixative for its action.
6. systemic product that is better to contact internally because they protect the plants and do not lose effectiveness with irrigation water is not entrained.