Anyone who wants to start growing eggplants should be aware of certain difficulties in growing them.
Eggplant is a rather capricious culture and is prone to many diseases. How to avoid them and how to fight if the disease has visited your site or greenhouse?
Read more about diseases and their treatment methods in our article.
Diseases of eggplant seedlings and fight with them, photo
Black spot
it the most common disease eggplant seedlings at home. The reason for its appearance is excess moisture. Also the cause may be soil too thick or thick.
To treat this disease is difficult. To stop the disease at the very beginning, a complex of actions is carried out immediately.
If the seedlings are too tight, it is necessary to defuse the landing. This can serve as an additional prevention not only against this disease, but also a number of others. Also, it will not be superfluous to treat with fungicides and decrease the humidity of the environment.
False and powdery mildew
This disease causes drying of the leaves of seedlings, which can cause wilting, and then the death of eggplant seedlings. This disease can affect young stems of shoots due to too high humidity and sudden changes in temperature.
It must be treated with the drug "Fitostorin". Also an important event will be airing greenhouses and reducing irrigation. When airing one should avoid drafts; young saplings do not like it.
Black leg of eggplant seedlings? What to do?
One of the most frequent diseases in the seedlings of this member of the family of the ashes. When a young plant got sick, a kind of jumper appears in the root system that does not provide good nutrition to seedlings.
From this plant, if not die, the crop will be poor. It is necessary to treat this disease means "Trikhodermin". If it does not help, unfortunately, you have to delete it.
This is necessary in order not to infect neighboring bushes, as it is a fungal infection.
Vertex Rot
This disease rarely affects seedlings and is not contagiousit happens from lack of potassium. But still if this disease struck your seedlings, then do not be alarmed.
Potash fertilizers will be enoughhow the disease will recede.
Tobacco mosaic
This disease affects not only the fruits of adult plants, making them unsuitable for food, but also seedlings. Leaves, shoots and flowers of the plant are affected.. With significant damage, seedlings are removed, and landing site is treated with quicklime. The disease is incurable.
Gray rot
Unfortunately, it is very difficult for a gardener with little experience to notice this disease at the initial stage. It becomes visible only when on the sheets and shoots visible gray scurf similar to mold. It can only be treated with the active use of complex fungicides.
Late blight
The main and most terrible enemy Eggplant and all cultures of the Solanaceae family. If the sheets were stained with a rust-like color. This is a sure sign that your seedlings are affected by this virus.
The plant may die if you do not take urgent measures. Infected seedlings must be removed., thus you eliminate the focus, preventing the further spread of the disease.
It spreads rapidly. The rest of the bushes seedlings process Bordeaux liquid or copper sulfate solution.
The seedling is not an adult plant and it needs special care. All diseases that adult plants have resistance to, seedlings are very difficult to resist.
Here we must be especially attentive and caring. Beginner will not be easy to cope with this task, but then you can be proud of the result. Good luck and great harvests of the most delicious eggplants.
So, we have discussed the main diseases of eggplant seedlings, photos are attached. And also described the procedure for the identification of these diseases.
Useful materials
Read other articles about growing and caring for eggplant seedlings:
- Different methods of cultivation: in peat tablets, in a snail and even on toilet paper.
- All features of sowing according to the lunar calendar.
- Golden rules for growing from seed.
- Features of cultivation in different regions of Russia: in the Urals, in Siberia and the Moscow region.
- Councils for the preparation of seeds before sowing, the correct feeding and picking of young plants.
