Cattleya wilt disease prevention and control methods

Cattleya wilt symptoms

Flower blight will mostly harm the flowers or inflorescences of Cattleya, and its young seedlings are also very susceptible to a certain degree of infection. The infected parts are dark brown to black spots, usually covered with white or pink hyphae. Severe infection may cause yellowing of flowers and withering of roots and buds. The pathogen can infect leaves, often appearing as small spots of injured tissue.

Cattleya wilt disease prevention and control methods

Note that the temperature of the environment should not be too high during the cultivation process, otherwise it will affect the growth of Cattleya, especially when the temperature is extremely low at night. Be careful not to spray water directly on the flower buds, especially when watering the sheaths during the flower bud differentiation period. To prevent this disease, you can spray 500 times the solution of 50-80% mancozeb wettable powder every 5 to 7 days, or irrigate the soil.

Through the above methods of preventing and controlling Cattleya wilt, we have basically understood and deepened the flower of Cattleya. If you are interested, you might as well move your hands and cultivate Cattleya quickly .