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- Diseases and pests on cyclamen
- Recognize and combat diseases
- gray
- blight
- Detect and combat pests
- Tips & Tricks
Cyclamen are more frequently attacked by diseases when they are overpoured
Diseases and pests on cyclamen
Shortly after the purchase - only a few weeks ago - the cyclamen still looked pikobello. Now it is in the cozy and warm living room and is becoming pitiful day by day. Which diseases and pests can be behind it, read below!
Recognize and combat diseases
Basically, there are no specific diseases that are regularly visited by cyclamen. Only with a faulty care it can come to illnesses. Most common are gray mold and blight. Less is the Cyclamenwelke (mushroom pathogen) to works.
gray
The gray horse is, as the name suggests, to recognize a gray and moldy coating on the leaves. It occurs especially when the cyclamen is too warm and the soil is too moist. This mushroom pathogen can let the plant go ...
Note the following for gray horse:
blight
The blight occurs when the cyclamen is poured too generously so that the soil is wet. In addition, withered and not-removed leaves favor this disease.
In general, no blight is in sight in tuber blight, even if the cyclamen is repotted. Therefore, the motto is: prevention. Pour the cyclamen from below, regularly, but not too luscious. You should also remove wilted plant parts immediately.
Detect and combat pests
The black-eared weevil and its larvae feed on the leaves of the cyclamen. You get rid of this pest by going out at night with a headlamp and catching the beetles (nocturnal) in the act and collecting them.
The cyclamen mite can also be dangerous. In particular, it eats the shoot tips and misses leaves and flowers. Their larvae live in the earth and eat up the tuber and roots. Quickly transplant the cyclamen into a new substrate and rinse the roots first
Tips & Tricks
Yellowed leaves are not necessarily indicative of a disease. Most of these are nursing errors that underlie this.