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Chapter 308

The prevention and control of plant diseases and insect pests must first start with strengthening cultivation management and improving the ability of flowers to resist plant diseases and insect pests, and timely detection and treatment should be carried out.

Here are some common home treatment methods for pests for your reference.

1. Aphids
Cut and mash shallots or garlic into small pieces and store them in a glass of water overnight before watering and brushing the flowers a few times.

2. Starscream

Soak 600 grams of fresh or 300 grams of dried potato stems and leaves in water for 4 hours, filter and spray the damaged plants, but some plants cannot be controlled with this solution, such as cacti and downy plants.

3. Round scale
The round scale is a pest with piercing-sucking mouthparts.The larvae crawl on the plant body, the adults or larvae suck the plant juice, the leaves of the damaged plants turn yellow, and the branches deform and lose their ornamental value.Some scale insects secrete a honey-scented mucus that attracts the fungus to colonize and cover the plant in black.To control round scales, you can carefully catch them with your hands, and then use 1 part of soap dissolved in 6 parts of water to make a liquid to wash the plants.

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Water the flowers before 10:2 am in spring, summer and autumn, and at 4:[-] pm in winter. In addition, in the season with high temperature, check the pot soil at [-]:[-] pm to see whether the pot soil is dry or wet, and add appropriate amount of water as appropriate to keep the pot soil Moderately moist.

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