7 Review (s)

  1. Larisa Odintsova

    I heard that powdery mildew on flowers helps spraying with a solution of ordinary washing powder. Is it worth using this tool?

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    • OOO "Sad"

      - This disease, caused by fungi of various genera, such as Podosphaera, Erysiphe, Oidium, affects plants in warm, damp weather. On young leaves from the lower and upper sides, stems, pedicels and buds, a white powdery coating appears. Single foci grow over time, completely covering the leaf blade, shoots, buds. Later, the plaque thickens and becomes gray. Affected leaves turn brown, dry and fall prematurely, young shoots are deformed, buds do not open. The plant noticeably lags behind in growth and eventually dies.

      There is no point in experimenting with laundry detergent like this when gardening stores are full of effective products designed specifically to combat powdery mildew on flowers. Your flowers will be saved by fungicides Skor (2 ml per 10 liters of water), CumulusDF (30-40 g per 10 liters of water). Carry out treatments, starting with the appearance of the first signs of the disease, with an interval of 10 days (hereinafter - if necessary).

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  2. Galina KIZIMA

    Phlox processing

    After pruning the shoots, phlox bushes should be watered with a 1% solution of a copper-containing preparation - 1 tsp. (incomplete) per 0,5 l of water.
    Renewal buds are laid at the flower since autumn at the very base of last year's shoots. From them comes the growth of new roots, so there is a gradual bulging of the rhizome from the soil. Because of this, panicled phlox needs to be filled with good fertile soil in the fall.

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  3. Elena KOLOS, Dzerzhinsk

    Prophylaxis on phlox

    By autumn, powdery mildew may appear on phlox, despite summer treatments. Therefore, after flowering, I cut the plants almost to the very soil and, for the purpose of prevention, I treat them with infusion of ash (3 kg per 10 liters of water) or a solution of soda ash with soap (50 g of soda and soap per 10 liters of water).

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  4. Summerman, gardener and gardener (anonymous)

    For some reason, my phlox's lower leaves began to turn yellow and dry out. And this year, some kind of grayish plaque appeared on the leaves. Do not prompt, than to treat?

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    • Summerman, gardener and gardener (anonymous)

      Most likely, your phlox is affected by powdery mildew. Most often this happens in July. I propose such methods of struggle: the affected leaves must be collected and burned, and the plant itself and the soil around it should be sprinkled with a 1% solution of copper or iron sulphate. You need to do this in the fall. If powdery mildew appeared during flowering, you need to spray it twice with any fungicide (again after 10-12 days).

      And one more thing: do not thicken the plantings and transplant phloxes every 2-3 years, then they will not lose their rich bright colors.

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  5. Galina GOLYGINA. Moscow region

    Putting phlox in full order

    At the end of October, I cut off phlox with a sharp pruner at a height of 10-15 cm from the ground. If the stems are completely cut off, the plants will grow worse in the new season, since the bulk of the renewal buds are located at the bottom of the stems (at a distance of 5 cm from the base). The remaining aboveground part will trap snow.
    Some growers do not cut phlox at all. But in spring, old stems, shading the middle of the bush, will interfere with the growth of young shoots.

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