Recognize and treat diseases (palm lily)

Diagnosis and finding the cause

For this reason, you should not only fight the actual disease, but also look for the cause. If the cause is not eliminated, the disease can break out again and again and ultimately lead to the death of the plant. For example, you should never water the yucca just because yours Leaves brown and withered look. On the contrary, because these symptoms can also be caused by excessive moisture. In that case, even more water would be deadly.

Symptoms of illness caused by incorrect care

Yucca palms often develop brown or yellow leavesthat can have various disease-related causes. This is often the result

• too much or not enough water
• Over- or under-fertilization
• too little light
• too small a pot
• or an infection with fungi or bacteria
• pest infestation also causes leaf discoloration

In the vast majority of cases, the cause is to be looked for in moisture and / or lack of light. Eliminate these problems as soon as possible and the plant will recover quickly. However, discolored leaves do not change color again, which is why this one

removed can.

Diseases

Also fungicidal or bacterial infections or A pest infestation often affects a plant that has been weakened by improper care. That is why you should always treat the yucca appropriately - which is sometimes not that easy, because there are, for example 50 different types sometimes with very different needs. There are hardy yuccas that can be safely planted in the garden and room-only yuccas that feel most comfortable in warm and sheltered locations. But all yuccas have one thing in common: They are not tropical plants with a high need for warmth and moisture! On the contrary, because most of the representatives of the large yucca family are in the deserts and semi-deserts of the in the southern USA - and there it is rather dry and often quite during the winter months cold.

Fungal infections

Fungal infections like for example mildew also affect the yucca. Often not only the leaves are infected, but also or above all the trunk. This will then soft, from the inside hollow and can abort. As with any other affected plant, you should remove and dispose of the affected parts of the yucca and then treat the plant with a fungicide. You don't have to resort to the chemical club, because there are a number of very good biological preparations.

Root rot

The basic cause of every root rot is waterlogging, in the wake of which putrefactive bacteria finally nestle and let the roots rot. A rescue is usually only possible if the yucca is cut back both above and below ground and potted in a new pot with fresh substrate.