Prevent disease in crops indoors
Maintain a strict maintenance schedule and cleaning is essential to get good results and avoid diseases.
Other regimens to maintain the plants in good health are:
-Moderate humidity, 60-70%.
-Water source safe. If the water comes from a well or a lake to be sterilized before use. In any case, you should not store more than a few days (put it in a cool dark place).
-Substrate and attention to draining standing water
-Constant maintenance of environmental factors to prevent shock to the plant (temperature, humidity, ventilation, pH, EC, light, nutrients)
-Sterile equipment. Seeds and cuttings must come from some source, keeping in mind that many pathogens have relatively long incubation period. And 'so essential a thorough inspection of the parent plant.
Despite all the precautions you may still be attacked from without, by some parasite.
If you see the plants lose color, the leaves fall there may be an unwanted guest, even if it is not visible to the eye. One insidious example would fly to infest the roots, and the whole plant would be infected through the sap.
Examine plants often with a magnifying glass and place the leaves between the special yellow sticker sheets (bug scan); if scorgete some insects do not hesitate to immediately isolate the plant.
Some common parasites:
Red spider - the size of a pinhead, it feeds on sap. The infested plant appears ill and loses its leaves. Small webs are visible to the naked eye in an advanced stage.
Aphids: the typical pear shape, sucking the sap of the plant causing the leaves to curl. A couple of millimeters long, can have different colors.
Mushroom flies: larval state eats the roots. Similar to fruit flies, black, two millimeters long. The affected plant decays rapidly.
Whitefly: the infested plants turn yellow and wilt. They are usually located on the underside of leaves.
The insects can be eliminated with specific chemicals or natural (pyrethrum, infusions of nettle), or through natural enemies (ladybugs and other predators).
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August 23rd, 2010 at 15:21
Hi, I found this site about plant diseases and I would write if I can help because this year I had the tomato crops ruined by a black moscherino the same size as the white fly tomato. The insfestazioni begin the new shoots appear, where blacks excrement of the larvae and then also in green and ripe tomatoes will show the exit holes of the larvae. My research led me to say I'm tentredini, perhaps. You can help. Natale Zappia
August 23rd, 2010 at 16:07
Hello,
your argument is based, chances are good that your problem is an infestation of tentredini.
I recommend treatment with a product based on pyrethrum, which is readily available at any garden or agricultural and usually covers a wide range of pests.
Get advice from the merchant, the commercial product most suited to your specific case.
Good growing!