Powdery mildew in violets - treatment

Indoor flowers, as well as garden flowers, sometimes get sick. This happens for various reasons - poor soil, excessive watering, inadequate conditions. For example, violets are often infested with late blight, mites, aphids. They suffer from fungal diseases, especially powdery mildew. Let's find out how to treat flowers in this case and how to treat violets from powdery dew.

How to cure a violet from powdery mildew?

The leaves of a violet affected by this disease will have a whitish coating and look dusty. But it's not dust at all - it's a white coating of mycelium. It can be formed not only on leaves, but also on stems and peduncles.

To rid your favorite violets from powdery mildew, you need to understand the reasons for its occurrence. And they can be different:

As a rule, it is not difficult to deal with powdery mildew in violets. It will be sufficient to use a single spray of diseased plants with an antifungal agent. For these purposes fungicides such as "Benlat" or "Fundazol" are suitable . Note that the disease could hit and standing next to the violets, even if the raid is not yet visible, so it's best to process the entire collection at once. If one spray does not help, after 10 days you can repeat the procedure or use a stronger preparation "Topaz".

Treatment of powdery mildew in violets is possible and folk remedies - for this use solutions of calcined soda or copper sulfate with soap, a suspension of colloidal sulfur, an infusion of rotted cow dung.

And to prevent the relapse of powdery mildew in violets after treatment, try to create the right conditions for your flowers: keep the shelf or sill clean, observe the temperature regime and feed complex fertilizers in suitable quantities. Place these plants best on the north-eastern sides. And if your windows look west or south, be sure to shade the violets, especially in the summer.