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The plant of Kalathea obeys only experienced and skilled flower growers. If the leaves dry, and curl on the calathea, it is a signal of improper care. Before you buy a beautiful woman, you need to calculate your strength, critically treat your experience in the care of naughty plants. There is nothing sadder than dying flowers in the apartment. Caring for a calathea is difficult, but all the more a beautiful healthy flower will delight.
How to read the signals of the plant
correctly Attentive grower will notice that the calathe's leaves dry and curl in different ways. Therefore, daily communication with pets helps to catch the signals fed through the leaves.
If the plant has been living in an apartment for a long time, but suddenly the very tips of the leaves began to dry up, it is not difficult to find the reason. Humidity has changed, it is possible that the heating has been turned on, and the air has become drier. Or maybe the plant was relocated to a new place, it protests.
If the leaves at Calathea are simply curled into a tube, it is possible that too much light falls on the plant and it is protected, leaving a smaller surface for photons. When the plate is not only twisted, but darkened, acquires a brown tint, the plant does not have enough moisture in the pot. If the calatheas dry the leaves, it means that the air is also dry. If you do not take action, the disc will dry and fall off.
Did spots appear on the leaves? Remember when you moistened, if large spots were formed on the leaves. Perhaps they hit the sunbeam and burned like a lens.
The leaves should be examined for colonization by insects. The ubiquitous aphid, spider mite, thrips, whitefly are dangerous. In this case, the whitefly is the most difficult to expel the insect.
At the first signs, as soon as the leaf altitude is broken, you need to look for the cause until the leaves have changed their appearance. The cause of the disease Calathea can be:
- watering with cold or hard water;
- lack of nutrition or non-compliance of the soil with the requirements of the plant;
- abrupt change of conditions of detention.
He does not like the flower of surprises in the content, does not forgive mistakes, and responds to Kalatheya with the fact that the leaves dry and curl.
In everything you need the measure
You bought and brought into the house an excellent Kalat. In the store or in the greenhouse, she grew up in other conditions. The plant needs to be adapted, and for this to find a permanent place for the bush:
- is bright, but with shading;
- warm, but without heat and drafts;
- moderately moist, but without stagnant moisture.
There should not be any devices with electromagnetic radiation nearby. There is no tobacco smoke in the room, no loud rock sounds, classical music plays. The stranger should like this room, but it needs to be adapted. To do this, wipe the leaves with a damp cloth, or a very fine spray to create a fog. Put a plastic bag on top of the plant, but so that there is air in it and it does not lie down on the leaves. Every day a package to remove for a longer period, accustoming the plant to a homely atmosphere. Perhaps, after such an adaptation, the question of why the leaves of a calathea dry does not arise.
It is impossible to immediately correct the error in the care of a naughty flower. Excessive watering or spraying is as harmful as their lack. Therefore, if the calathees dry the tips of the leaves, it is necessary to gradually and gradually change the situation. That is, at first moisten the leaves, but not much. Indeed, during evaporation, the surface temperature decreases, and the leaf will receive a new stress. A special humidifier, battery-operated diapers, and a moss pan will save the situation.
Perhaps the creation of an air bubble made of a film around the flower, under which the humidity will be stable, can cope with dryness. In the most extreme cases, thus, fans keep the leaves before turning off the central heating. For better vitality, epin can be added to the irrigation water.
If the plant suddenly lowered the green leaves - this is a sign of the pot bay. Do not water the plant for several days. You can take out a bush and see if it is rotting. You can urgently change the soil.
The reason why calathea dries can be either undernourishment or excessive fertilizing. Flowering varieties need special fertilizers. But for any Tropican, excess nitrogen and the presence of calcium in the soil is harmful. Therefore, it is impossible to water Calatea with hard water, the soil deteriorates. She and so gradually poisoned by their own secretions of the roots. After some time, top dressing will not be assimilated, the ground needs to be replaced.
That is why young plants are transplanted annually, and after four years every two years. In this case, the soil is selected special, with the addition of charcoal and vermiculite. The presence of land from coniferous forests will create a more suitable substrate.
If you comply with all the conditions of the maintenance of the flower will become a habit, it will long delight amazingly beautiful foliage and even flowering.
