Pest and Disease Control of Adenium

August 14, 2010 | Posted by HomeZooka.com

The following home trend post, have a title ‘Pest and Disease Control of Adenium‘. What pests and diseases often attack anything that Adenium? How to control pests and diseases that attack Adenium? Adenium including plants that are rarely attacked by pests and diseases. But if one day the contract is, how to overcome them should be known. Here are some types of pests and diseases that often attack adenium and control.

a. Aphid
This is a form of pest infestation are yellow. Aphid life usually clustered at the base of the shoots of plants and flowers. Starting spreading fast. Because aphid suck the liquid so that leaves grow is not perfect, tends to curl, blackened, and dry. Response: use of insecticides such as Te Ye Man, Demiter, Supracide, Decis, Curacron, or Basudin. This insecticide is a combination of contact killing and disturbing nervous. That is, if the insecticide on insects, the insects die instantly. If not dead lost their reproductive ability, so disconnect the life cycle of insects. Spray insecticides to the aphid attacked plants once a week over a period of three weeks. Prevention is done by spraying insecticide once a month.

b. Fungus gnat
Fungus gnat is a pest that looks like a black gnat. He lives in the moist growing media. Adenium attacked marked with black spots on the flower buds. Then the flower buds will rot and fall. Response: spray insecticides, such as Te Ye Man, Demier, or Proleaf to plant part attacked. Another alternative Agrimec Trigard and 0.5 dose / liter of water.

c. Mealy Bug
These pests such as ticks and have a kind of white powder found in the armpit and the young leaf shoots. The attacks led to the growth of abnormal shoots. Response: spray insecticides, such as Proleaf to plant part attacked.

d. Nematoda
Nematodes commonly found in the media fed on manure cropping. The initial symptoms are turning yellow of leaves and death of a young flower buds. Part of being attacked is the root nematode adenium. If the sick adenium deprived of such a bulb pot will look at the root fibers. Fibrous root tip too much to die and the base of the root mengeriput or perforated. If viewed with a microscope would look a lot smaller worms gnaw the roots adenium. Plant damage caused by the secretion of saliva which is injected into plants when nematode bite or eat the plants. This process can cause death because of the power lost roots and shoots, wounds formed, the plant tissue to swell and burst. Response: Remove the plant from the pot and wash the roots in running water. Cut and remove any root fibers are damaged and rotten. Subsequently the roots were soaked in a solution of insecticide or parasitising kidney (eg 98% or parasitising kidney Dazomet as recommended dose) until all the roots and base of the stem submerged for half an hour. Lift the plants and wind-wind in the shade for 1-2 weeks. Once healthy plants to be grown in a sterile planting media new. Use a clean growing media and organic material that has been cooked properly. If need be added, such as Furadan 3G parasitising kidney granules mixed in the planting media.

e. Root Mealy Bug
Pests such as white lice are generally found in the moist growing media. Plants attacked had withered shoots, stem damage, and accompanied by root decay. If planting media will be dismantled white powdery look small animal attached to the roots rotting. Response: combined use parasitising kidney, insecticides, and fungicides, such as Sursban or Diainon (dose of 1 ml / l) or 98% Dazomet splashed way directly into the planting medium, or replace the entire planting media with new, sterile growing media. For prevention, insecticide spraying can be done once a month.

f. Ant
Ants often nest in the growing media or under the pot, so that it can damage the roots and shoots adenium. Ants belonging to vector diseases. Response: adenium pot soak briefly in water or water it uses anti-ants drugs.

g. Spider myths
This pest looks like a spider and red. Other Name motes or red mite. These pests like to hide under leaves and axillary leaves. Adenium whose leaves hairy very vulnerable to pest attack is because the mites like to hide on the sidelines while sucking the fuzz had bo leaves and stems. In plants at the bottom of sick leaves or stems of red mites found in nests in the form of fine threads. Symptoms Initially, the leaves will mat. Furthermore, the leaves yellowing and falling fast. In addition, small dots appear brownish red color on the surface of the leaf. The attacks can be fatal marked by leaf drop and shoot dry because the liquid plant stems sucked out. Response: use akarisida, for example Kelthane or ommittee. Spray the entire plant and the environment with the recommended dose. Spraying carried out 2-4 times per week. No need to worry if, after spraying the leaves adenium fall, because a new and healthy leaves will soon emerge. The most effective prevention is to put the plant in a place that has good air circulation, sunlight and rain water directly. These pests do not like the place blustery and exposed to continuous rain shower.

h. Thrips
Its form is a black lice move fast. Thrips attack the flower buds that fail to swell and become dry. Response by spraying insecticides, such as Detimer, to attack the affected area.

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