Poinsettia: symptoms, pests and diseases

And we continue with the poisentia, Poinsettia o Christmas plant. Our goal: its survival and development to enjoy it again next year. After Poinsettia: how to survive Christmas y Poinsettia: care after Christmas, today we bring you the latest installment of this miniseries, with the symptoms of plagues and diseases that may affect our red leaf planta beautiful species that deserves, like all, our care to guarantee its survival.

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Symptoms of problems or diseases

• Leaves with yellow edges: Excess heat and lack of humidity. Keep it away from heat sources, always keep it below 25º, place the pot on a plate with water and stones, so that the roots do not get wet, spray its green leaves (not the red ones) with water at room temperature.
• Fall of leaves before the end of January: Cold, drafts or lack of natural light. Remember that its ideal temperature is 22º during the day and 16º at night. It is not advisable for it to rise above 25º or fall below 10º.
• Withered leaves that end up falling: Too much or too little water. The substrate should dry out between waterings, but not too much. It simply shouldn’t be damp to hand. Depending on the humidity, you will need between 1 and 2 irrigations a week.
• Yellow sheets: Iron deficiency.
• Little black bumps on the leaves (They may be on the back). Rust. Remove the leaves that present the stains and apply treatment against this fungus (Consult the most common fungi in the urban garden)
• Rotten stems: Another fungus, Pythium, may be attacking her. Eliminate rotten stems, apply a treatment against it and watch over watering.
• Silver spots on the sheets. Remove the leaves and move the Poinsettia away from your other plants. Viruses have no treatment.
• Rot gray in color and gray hairy spots on leaves and / or stems, it is like a gray mold: Bortritis. Eliminate the infected parts, monitor excess watering or spraying, place the plant in a ventilated place without drafts and apply a specific treatment.

Pests

The pests that can affect the Poinsettia are:

Good luck with that christmas plantand take care of it as it deserves!