Pest and disease lilies, treatment care and photos
Lilies rarely get sick, but still, there are some diseases that can lead to destruction of the flower, if time does not take medication. In general, lily susceptible to disease in winter and autumn, when the bulb becomes weak, and if everything else behind it was the wrong care, it is quite easy to fall victim to the disease. When the onion gets sick, it becomes soft and covered with mold, and as a result is able to easily rot. Sick bulb not only one, but also roots, leaves and stems. Consider the lilies are the most common diseases.
Gray mold, this type of disease occurs most often cold, rainy spring. To find it on the plant can, if carefully inspect the leaves, they look as if they doused with boiling water, buds fall off. To protect your flower from gray mold, spray the leaves in the rainy summer, with copper fungicide or Bordeaux mixture every 10 days.
Fusarium rot affects the plant, starting with the head, appear yellow-brown spots and lesions, the root system begins to rot and decompose it. This plant disease can become infected if it has received damage, or through the root system, is located in a hot garden area with high humidity and everything else it will add to the compost fertilizer. Fusarium rot diseased plants die in winter.
Blight – a fungus, plant, picked it stops growing, it decreases the leaves. Just examining a flower, the infection will not notice unless dig bulb, it will be rotten. If the plant is newly infected, it may be cured by using products containing copper and by transplanting into another area of the garden or flower bed.
Root rot and fungus. As in the previous description of the blight, lily stops growing, the leaves are reduced and fall inflorescences. However, the plant struck root rot the bulb does not hit, and the roots covered with brown spots. This disease can occur in a very moist soil. To cure the plant, you should pour the soil solution of 0.2% fundazol rate of 8-10 liters per sq.m.
Rust lilies in this disease, on pieces of paper there are small spots that do not have colors that increase in size, and the leaves dry out. Affected leaves liquidate and lily very treatable means containing copper 2-3 times and as a top dressing is added potassium and phosphorus products.
Bacterial (wet) rot affects the onion plant, its leaves. They March brown spots appear oval, they eventually rot. The defeat of plants occurs due to excess moisture and lack of nitrogen in the soil. Onion removed and when it begins to grow new, and the disease will come back again, the plant every 10 days watered fungicides.
Mosaic lily can be seen on the plant on light green spots on young leaves. This plant disease is to catch insects, such as aphids, which is drunk the juice from diseased plants.
Chlorosis characteristic yellowing leaves streaks in places, and it warns the grower, that the land in this place with high acidity.
Another disease of plants, it leaves purple color, it is associated with malnutrition and rotting plant roots. There is on the flowers that grow in poorly draining soil with high humidity. Infected leaves and stems are modifiable, they form a seal, and blisters appear. This can happen due to spring frosts, which can harm the plant.
Fasciation is when several stems fused into one, this can happen if the plants get damaged at the point of growth. Fasciation observed when the plant produces several shoots of bulbs. It may also happen that the bulb planted in the soil to germinate is not the first year, and only for a second, will shoot. This bulb is called the fallen asleep.