Care for dracaena

Feed the Dracaena mineral fertilizers are necessary all year round.

For example, in the summer when watering once a week you needadd a few drops of liquid fertilizer to the water. In autumn and winter, plants are fertilized less often. In spring, to maintain the vital forces of the plant, foliar dressing is carried out with the help of such a mixture: potassium phosphate 0, 4 g / l, ammonium sulphate 0.3 g / l, potassium nitrate 0.5 g / l. The concentration for foliar top dressing should be less than 1 gr. mixture per liter of water.

It is very good to feed plants with "natural fertilizers": mullein, horse manure, leaf humus.

The dracenes react to an element such as fluorine, andwhen its excess in plants begin to dry up the tips of the leaves, there are yellow spots, growth slows down. Therefore, you must always monitor the level of fluoride in fertilizers.



Propagate dracenes can be apical cuttings or slicesstems, which then take root under the film in the soil at a temperature of 25 ° C. In order for the plant to have several tops, try to choose a young, well-rooted plant with a height of at least 30 cm (the higher, the better). In spring or early summer, a sharp knife or blade at the plant is cut off the top (5-10 cm, with leaves remaining on the trunk), the wound is sprinkled with crushed coal. The top can be rooted, and the remaining trunk grows new apexes.
It is also possible to plant dracaenes with seeds, this should be done in March-April.



If it's wrong to take care of dracaena, she can get sick and die.

For example, because the temperature is too lowthe dracaena leaves become soft and twist. Dry air causes the leaves of the plant to dry and change in color. If there are brown spots on the leaves - it means that it does not have enough moisture. Direct sunlight causes burns to the plant. And leaves turn yellow due to a lack of nutrients.



Also Dracaens can be exposed to various infectious diseases.

For example, if on the leaves you noticedlight brown spots with a light center are signs of such a disease as alternaria. With the development of the disease, the spots become black. This fungus appears and spreads at elevated temperature and humidity, with an excess of nutrients in the soil. To combat this disease, dracenes are sprayed with fungicides.

Light brown spots with a dark red rimon leaves and stems are signs of heterosporiosis. This disease develops most actively with high humidity. Specialists recommend treating this disease in the same way as with alternaria.

Phyllosis is a fairly common disease of Drazen- forms pale brown, large spots with a yellow or green fringe, on which later black dots appear. Most often this disease is caused by a lack of moisture and affects, mainly, adult plants. Fighting with phyllosis is also possible with fungicides.



Dangerous for dracen such pests As mealy worm, scab, spider mite.

Powdery mildew forms waxy secretions on the plant, similar to small pieces of cotton wool. This pest is washed off with soapy water (20 g of soap per 1 liter of water, it is better to use liquid potassium soap).

Shield is a small insect of grayish-white or yellow color. It must be carefully removed from the leaves and treated with a dracaenza insecticide.

Spider mite leaves on the underside of the leafdracaena yellow stains. The leaves are wiped with a cotton swab moistened with hot soapy water (20 g of liquid soap per 1 liter of water) or treated with acaricides.



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