Why spathiphyllum turns yellow. Problems of growing spathiphyllum: a list of "ailments", their causes and methods of elimination. What does spathiphyllum look like?

Spathiphyllum is called women's happiness. This flower belongs to the aroid family. Its glossy leaves, having an oval or pointed shape, appear directly from the ground. Spathiphyllum blooms usually in the spring for several weeks. The plant can bloom again at any time of the year. After a while, its white flowers change its shade to light green or yellowish.

Like any plant, spathiphyllum can hurt. One of the troubles is the appearance of yellow leaves. Most often the cause of this phenomenon is improper care. It should be noted that the rainforest is the birthplace of the plant. Therefore, when you care should be borne in mind that the ideal conditions for spathiphyllum would be heat, humidity and diffused light. Irregular watering, lowering the temperature, direct sunlight, dry air, lack of top dressing or its oversupply are factors leading to yellowing of the leaves, depletion of the plant and even death. Also insects that inhabit it also harm the flower.

It is worth knowing that the spathiphyllum leaves do not always turn yellow due to improper care. If the plant is already adult, and it has a long flowering period, then the leaves turn yellow and fall for this reason. The flower thus restores its strength to regrow. This situation can also be observed in young, not yet flowering plants, as the plant consumes a lot of nutrients in flower development. Because of this, some of the leaves turn yellow. In this case, you should not worry, as the natural process is going on and with time the yellowing stops by itself.

For good growth spathiphyllum and in order to avoid the appearance of yellow leaves, you should not forget about the rules of the content of this plant.

1. It is necessary to carry out not plentiful daily watering of a spathiphyllum with soft water of room temperature.
2. Systematically spray the leaves of a flower with water, the temperature of which must be at room temperature.
3. Must be observed temperature condition. In winter, the plant prefers that the temperature in the room does not fall below 15 ° C. But the spathiphyllum should not be located near the heaters, as well as in a draft. In summer, the flower likes penumbra, in winter - the light, but not the direct rays of the sun, which can cause leaf burn. That is why the plant must be placed in a place where diffused sunlight enters.
4. It is recommended twice a year to feed the spathiphyllum with special mineral fertilizers.

Video about the proper care of spathiphyllum

As mentioned above, one of the main reasons why the spathiphyllum turns yellow leaves is the wrong care, so we recommend watching the video on how to properly care for this plant.

People usually frantically search the web for articles on plant rescue when they realize that indoor flower  almost ruined. Although the simplest preventive measures and competent care is enough for normal growth.

Take an example. Florists clarify why the leaves turn yellow on the spathiphyllum. What to do? - they ask. This plant is so unpretentious that you need to really try to ruin it and bring it to yellowing. In other words, what is your master, if you even spathiphyllum fell ill? Now we analyze all possible causes.

Depletion

Spathiphyllum often and long blooms. Therefore, it requires a lot of strength and power for this process. Some owners do not change care during flowering, and often this leads to a strong depletion of the plant.

Signs.  Yellowing leaves begins with the lower tier. Occurs evenly and quickly. If you do not take any measures, the leaves will soon turn yellow and fade on the whole plant. Then the flower will die.

What to do.  Increase the dose of fertilizing with the beginning of flowering. This will give the spathiphyllum extra strength. You can use any complex mineral fertilizer. Just see that there is not a lot of nitrogen. A large amount of it is not always useful for indoor flowers. They begin to build a lush green mass to the detriment of full bloom. In addition, excessive use of nitrogen fertilizers makes the leaves watery and loose.

It would be better if the composition of mineral water will be phosphorus, potassium, boron. These elements have a positive effect on flowering, prolong it.

All of the above relates to prevention. How to help spathiphyllum, if the leaves are already yellowed from exhaustion? In this case, pushing handfuls into the soil is useless. Yellow vanes will not recover.

Try to transplant a flower in a new land. If it works out, by transferring it to a slightly larger pot. But some flower growers do not recommend leaving the old soil, because it is already "empty." They offer to shake it off the root system to the maximum, trying to tear off small roots as little as possible. Then you need to take a new soil and pour a small mound into the pot. Naturally, do not forget about the drainage.

Now the root system gently straighten the soil and fall asleep from the top to the level where the ground was before. Growth point to deepen categorically impossible! Spathiphyllum and so exhausted, he violet, where he shoved. And then they fall asleep. It’s time to sleep forever. But we help him recover, and not finish off completely.

Council After transplantation, the plant can not be fed at least a month. Let the roots take root first.

The yellow leaves serve as a reference point for starting fertilizing. They are left on the plant. Once they are completely withered, you can remove and start slowly giving fertilizer to the spathiphyllum. Let it be until half the usual dose, gradually bring it to normal.

Another situation. The plant has grown strongly and it is not possible to transplant it. In this case, you can carefully remove the top layer of soil (4-7 cm). In its place fall asleep new land. In this situation, the mode of dressing can not be changed.

Lighting and temperature

Sometimes the spathiphyllum gets enough food, but the leaves still turn yellow. The reason for this may be hit on the plate in direct sunlight. Moreover, the usual daytime sun is unlikely to cause significant damage. Burns causes a scorching summer light.

Another situation. In winter, the sun does not seem to burn, and the flower on the windowsill still turns yellow. From what? From too dry air. Heating radiators are the culprits.

Signs.  First, the tips of the leaves on the whole plant turn yellow. Then they die off very quickly. Over time, damage spreads over the entire leaf surface. Next, the flower dies.

What to do. First you need to determine the exact cause: the sun is guilty or excessively dry air. And even better, if the owners take care of the conditions in advance. When placed in the summer on a hot window sill, it is imperative to prune the spathiphyllum from direct sunlight. It is easy to make a light thin curtain, a piece of white cloth or regular office paper.

Just do not move the plant pot to the back of the room. The lack of lighting leads to the fact that the leaves of the flower are strongly drawn out and turn pale.

From the dry air in the cold period, you can get rid of in several ways:

1. The radiators are covered with a wet towel or thick blanket.
2. Next to the pot put additional containers with ordinary water.
3. On the windowsill place the pan or a wide low bowl with pieces of sphagnum, peat or expanded clay. All this stuff is periodically well moistened with water.
4. Spray air around the spathiphyllum from a spray bottle regularly.
5. In the room include a humidifier.

As you can see, there are plenty of ways to help the spathiphyllum transfer hot or dry weather. You can use any suitable. The main thing that the plant was to their liking.

Council Dried leaf ends are cut, slightly grabbing healthy tissue. Strongly yellow patches are removed, slightly changed pigmentation will recover on their own.

Wrong watering and cold

Spathiphyllum loves to sit in the wet ground. But not raw! Some growers literally flood the flower. Well, if the drainage holes do their job, and the roots do not float in the swamp. And if the holes are closed with too dense soil or overgrown root system?

Plus, it happens that on some windowsills it is too cool because it blows. Or in the room itself is low temperature. All this is fraught with root decay.

Signs.  On the edge of all the leaves appears yellow border. It quickly turns black and dries. The plant itself is sluggish.

What to do.  Urgently transplant spathiphyllum to another substrate. Be sure to trim all rotten roots. Adjust the watering schedule. It is installed by leaps and bounds. A reference should be the condition of the soil. It should be wet, but not wet. Irrigation time cannot be determined on the top layer.

There are 4 options to find out when it's time to drink spathiphyllum:

1. Unzip the soil and see what state it is at depth.
2. Plant a flower in a transparent pot. Condensate will be clearly visible. Its absence signals the need for watering.
3. Stick a wooden skewer or bark-free stick into the ground all the way to the bottom. After 12-14 minutes, pull out and look at her moisture level. He will be clearly visible.
4. Buy special beacons in the flower shop. They are installed directly into the ground. When the humidity level changes at a certain height, the beacons change color. Immediately clear - pull some water.

And do not overdo it with watering! Some plants are dying from excessive care than from its lack.

How to deal with hypothermia spathiphyllum roots? And do not fight him. It can be prevented very simply. It is enough to put a foam plate or a piece of thick wool fabric under the pot. Not bad keeps warm foamed substrate under the laminate or cork stand for hot dishes.

Council In winter, make sure that the windows do not blow. Then you will not have to dance with laying.

Diseases and pests

As a rule, Spathiphyllum rarely gets sick. But sometimes, despite decent care, trouble happens. Most often, the nature of the disease has a fungal origin. Spores can get to the greens from contaminated soil or from other flowers in the neighborhood. The same applies to insect pests.

Signs.  The leaves turn yellow all over the plant. Brown spots appear that gradually grow. On the lower side of the sheet plate there is a white bloom or uninvited guests are sitting. By the way, they can become carriers of the disease.

What to do.  Insects can try to execute a warm solution of household or potash soap. But it is very difficult for them to wash dense bushes thoroughly and from all sides. And, for example, your whitefly soap in general to the bulb. In the fight against it you will have to spend a lot of effort, time and money.

You can try some more. folk methods. This is an infusion of onion peel or ashes of woody trees, decoctions of poisonous or strongly smelling herbs (celandine, tansy, valerian, mint). These methods help to get rid of pests, but only if they are few. That is, the infection occurred recently.

With a large accumulation of insects do not suffer. Use any systemic insecticide, preferably long-acting. Strictly follow the dosage and recommendations on the package. Do not forget that it is poison. If necessary, you can repeat the processing days after 5-7. Chemistry does save time and nerves.

Council Process not only green mass, but also the earth in a pot. Some pests you may simply not notice. So do not take risks, water quality.

With diseases harder. If a fungus or bacterium gets to the point of growth, then it will be impossible to help the spathiphyllum. You have to part with it. Therefore, salvation must begin as soon as possible.

The first step is to cut all the infected parts of the plant. Roots, leaves, stems - do not regret anything. Any, even the tiniest hearth of the sore can spread throughout the flower. All sections are treated with a weak solution of potassium permanganate, then sprinkled with crushed activated carbon.

But these measures are not enough. Infection can be at the cellular level, and it is possible that the bacteria remained in the healthy parts of the spathiphyllum. Therefore, it would not be desirable, but you will have to turn for help to the good old chemistry. Unfortunately, here you have to choose: stay on the side of organic farming, watching the death of a flower, or step over your principles and help Spathiphyllum to get out.

Treatment consists of several stages:

1. Spraying with any systemic fungicide. It is carried out very carefully, with full wetting of all the leaves (from two sides) and the stem.
2. Transplanting a plant into a new soil (decontaminated in the freezer, oven, or with a strong solution of potassium permanganate). A pot is also better to take another.
3. Repeated spraying.

To maintain a diseased spathiphyllum, it is recommended to add epine, aloe juice or zircon to the water for irrigation. The vitality of the plant will increase many times.

Council Treat the soil before planting phytosporin. This will protect the flower from re-infection.

Why spathiphyllum leaves turn yellow. What to do? You do not have to look for a solution to the problem anymore if you begin to properly care for the plant. After all, it is always easier to prevent than to eliminate the consequences. And to stop Spathiphyllum - it is still necessary to try. Better love it and your flower will grow into a big beautiful bush of lush greenery.

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