Diseases of violets
Violets, like all other plants, are susceptible to various diseases. To protect them, you need to know the main diseases of violets, their symptoms and methods of treatment. This will help keep the plant healthy and beautiful.
Rotting diseases of leaves and roots of violets
Most often, leaf and root decay occurs after dividing the plant, pruning and transplanting the tops or separating the children. The appearance of rot can be provoked by both various pests and too abundant watering.
Violet diseases can be fungal, bacterial and viral.
The symptoms of this disease are:
- decrease in leaf elasticity;
- changing the natural color of the outlet;
- wilting leaves.
If the flower is very badly damaged by the disease, you need to remove the affected tissue and root the Saintpaulia with a healthy leaf.
Brown rot most often damages very young Saintpaulias, babies and rooted leaves. In this case, the stalk becomes thin, soft and acquires a brownish tint, and white filaments of mycelium can be found on the soil.
Root rot also leads to wilting and discoloration of the leaves. If you remove the plant from the soil, then you can see the soft roots of a brown tint. Gray rot leads to the same consequences. But in this case, the diseased parts of the Saintpaulias are covered with a fluffy bloom of gray.
For the prevention and treatment of rot, the plants must be treated with a contact action fungicide, and the root part with “phytosporin”.
In addition to various types of rot, violets are susceptible to other serious diseases. Among them are such as:
- powdery mildew – the leaves and inflorescences affected by the disease seem to be sprinkled with flour. Young or fairly old plants are especially susceptible to this disease, as well as those that have recently faded or underwent a transplant. Sick Saintpaulia should be treated with a fungicide;
- Fusarium first affects the roots of the flower, and then spreads to the rest of the violet, while the cuttings and leaf edges become watery. The diseased plant must be urgently destroyed along with the soil in which it grew, and the container must be treated with copper sulfate;
- late blight can be determined by the appearance of dry brown spots on the leaves. If the top of the outlet shows no signs of disease, it can be cut and rooted by first treating it with some kind of antifungal drug.
Also dangerous are viruses of spotting or bronzing of leaves, which lead to a change in leaf plates and negatively affect the development of the plant as a whole. Very often they lead to the fact that the violets do not bloom.
Now you know how to identify the main diseases of violets, it will be even easier with photographs. Pay close attention to the Saintpaulias, and they will delight you with their beauty for a long time.