How to save a wilted plant
When a plant begins to wilt, something is wrong. The disease shows many symptoms, appears limp, flat, yellowish, leafless, with dull blades. In each case, the origin is different, even can be caused by several factors at once, but by and large they are growing gaps.
1. It is dry? You’ll notice because it looks straight, loses leaves (mostly small-leaved plants) and the rest are somewhat dry and brown.
Dip in water and land will revive. You take the root ball from the pot and see that most of the land is dry and caked. To retrieve the most effective plant is introduced directly into a container of water without the pot. You leave the floor until you see the root ball is thoroughly wet.
You will do well with plants that need watering qu is therefore difficult to meet their needs, such as azalea, hydrangea or the ferns.
Do not happen again if you play often to check if the substrate is wet, if there are no remains of land in the fingertips to do so, he needs water.
2. Excess water? You’ll notice it is straight, because you miss freucnecia water it with, but that is the cause of wilting.
Remove the root ball and dry land. You take the root ball from the pot and you put a drain on newsprint and paper pulp, such as a paper towel.
We wrap the earth in the paper to absorb excess water, changing it as often as necesrio. From that moment you can expect at least two days before watering again.
You’ll be fine with the diefembaquia coo plants, the aspidistra, or big leaf ficus that need watering more moderate.
Do not happen again if you improve drainage and remove any water for irrigation.
3. Lose leaves? You’ll notice even before the leaves fall, because they begin to turn yellow or brown.
Resort to drastic pruning of the specimen, leaving stems about 10 cm long, if you will that has knots, allowing the plant to resprout and rejuvenate step.
Download to plant the most diseased helps revive, whatever be the origin of their poor condition, as well finds it easier to recover if less stems and leaves to keep.
I will be fine with plants that support a good pruning, as the ficus benjamina, pothos, ivy, azalea, kalanchoe
It will not happen if you make sure that they are not exposed to drafts or sudden temperature changes, two of the most common causes of leaf loss.
4. It does not grow? You’ll notice because roots protrude through the holes in the pot dranje can even protrude through the top. Besides the aerial part (stems, leaves and flowers) appears too large and disproportionate to the pot.
Change the pot plant, the new pot should be only slightly larger than the last. We often make the mistake of passing a very large container, which do not improve their condition.
The pot very small relative to the size of the plant can reach provovar his death, since in this case, control of water and abonaos has to be much more accurate, which is not easy.
You will do well with all types of plants, but is essential in the case of the kentia or chamaedorea to keep growing without danger of capsizing and asplenia, Peperomia, gardenia.
It will not happen if you transplant your plants every spring to a pot only slightly larger. Leave transplanting when they want to continue to grow, then you must renew the top layer of substrate in the same period.
5. Yellow leaves? because the leaves will notice, even the younger ones, are beginning to turn yellow. If a mature leaf yellowing and sporadically, do not worry, it is normal that the plant
renew the older leaves.
Place the plants in a site receives the direct rays of the sun,
excess light is the most common cause of yellowing. It gets more complicated when it comes to plants that need maximum illumination. In this case, you must make sure that the windows have curtains or blinds that allow pass the sun but the light sifting.