Growing violets

An adult plant with formed buds can bloom for two months or more, depending on the variety and conditions. If you do not have much experience in breeding senpoli, then it may turn out that after one lush flowering, the plant will lose its decorativeness, weaken and gradually freeze. More often, an adult flowering plant is bought to make a gift, or if you urgently need to decorate the interior for some kind of celebration...

Most often, violets die from the bay with water. Too wet substrate rots, and with it the roots of the plant. At the same time, the leaves lose their turgor: they become sluggish, not elastic, droop. With excessive soil moisture, a number of diseases occur, caused by both fungi and bacteria. There is no point in making a diagnosis and trying to treat by spraying or watering the plant with remedies for the disease - it is useless...

If the earthen lump smells of rot and decomposition, it is necessary to remove part of the soil and decomposed roots. Living roots are white or light brown, while dead roots are black. Carefully, using a fork or a wooden pointed stick, you need to separate the roots...

Infection occurs with planting material. You can purchase an affected leaf or baby. The danger is any soil purchased in the store, garden land. Less likely to be infected through forest land. By removing a diseased leaf or stepson on the affected plant, and then touching a healthy plant with these hands, you can infect it with nematodes. Parasites enter plant tissue through stomata or wounds...

Each senpolist has his own secrets of compiling soil.
In the literature on violets, the same is found in different proportions of components. But by trial and error, everyone selects the composition of the substrate acceptable to him. And this is correct, because everyone has their own varietal preferences, their own capabilities, their own conditions of detention, therefore the composition of the soil should be different...

When breeding variegated leaf cuttings, the greenest leaf is taken for rooting. Green leaf cells contain more chlorophyll, which provides the process of photosynthesis in the light. It is photosynthesis that provides the energy necessary for plant life and development. In the bright areas of the leaf, chlorophyll is absent, if such areas prevail, then there is not enough energy for rooting and development of children. Such leaves also poorly tolerate long-term transportation, transfer - they die on the road or later...

When crossing and growing various varieties of violets spontaneously or under the influence of mutagens (growth stimulants, other chemicals, radiation, viruses), mutant violets appear, consisting of two types of cells with different structures, they were called 'chimeras'.
The main feature of 'chimeras' is that when they are bred with leaf cuttings or seeds, varietal signs are not transmitted. The attraction of 'chimeras' is that they have a special color of flowers and sometimes leaves. Most often it is a characteristic strip from the center of the flower to the tip of the petal or along the entire leaf...

Sometimes you can observe the following picture: in the center of the outlet at the violet, the place from where new young leaves appear suddenly darkens, dries up, or blackens, young leaves do not develop or are greatly deformed. The death of the growth point occurs. There may be several reasons for this .
The lack of boron can cause excessive potassium addition during top dressing, in this case there is also a violation of the normal absorption of calcium, magnesium, zinc. Lack of calcium also leads to depression and dieback of the growth point. If fertilizer with too high a concentration of potassium was applied during irrigation, and at the same time it got to the growth point, then there are no options - it will die...

Your violet does not look healthy, does not grow well, does not bloom, is it clearly depressed by something ?
First, let's find out if the disease or pests hit the violet.

Signs of illness: wilting with a wet earthen coma; decay of leaves, buds and flowers, trunk, roots; the appearance of spots of various irregular shape (stripes, curls) of yellowish-gray color, without signs of thinning and decay...

The cause of a sick type of violet is often: improper transplantation, improper watering, insufficient illumination, sunburn, excess nitrogen, lack or excess of some trace element, drafts, extreme heat...

Ticks are not insects, they belong to arthropods, so ordinary insecticides do not work on them or act at huge doses (for example, an actelic, hazard class 2), special drugs have been developed for arthropods - acaricides. They are different: some better affect eggs, other adult ticks. When buying, read the instructions carefully. Acaricides include such drugs: omyte, magus, nissoran, neoron, flumite, apollo, sanmite, orthus, mitak, caesar and others. The prefix "acar" in the name of the drug speaks of its belonging to acaricides...

Stains on violet leaves can appear for different reasons and have different consequences. Examine the sheet carefully to understand the nature of the lesion, use a magnifying glass. You can take a picture of the spot and then enlarge it as much as possible in the graphics editor. The presence of black dots on the spot may indicate the appearance of parasitic fungi spores, and small dots, when enlarged, can immediately be identified as insect bites, sometimes you can even see pests on leaves with egg-laying spots, cobwebs of the corresponding tick species, etc...