Kumquat potted plants in the New Year's festivals, festive holidays will be loved by people, especially the New Year's festivities, more as the annual flower to buy home maintenance. In many business front are very common plants is kumquat potted plants. Kumquat symbolizes good luck, meaning that it is full of gold and jade, attracting wealth and prosperity. At the same time, the golden kumquat is also given by the people of the rolling wealth, the good wishes of good luck. So kumquat inexplicably dropped leaves, what to do?
Today, the Valley of Flowers from several aspects to introduce you to why you buy back to raise the kumquat will fall leaves. Common causes of kumquat leaf drop are: insufficient light, overwatering, soil discomfort, improper fertilization and pest damage. Here we analyze the remedies according to the specific reasons.
Insufficient light
Kumquat is a light-loving plant, insufficient light will lead to the phenomenon of dropping leaves. If long-term kumquat maintenance in the dark place will bring harm to the growth of kumquat. Especially home maintenance kumquat are generally placed in the hall and other places, the light is seriously insufficient, so the light problem is also the culprit of domesticated kumquat leaf drop. At the same time in the low light place maintenance kumquat often fruit is green, have green color into golden yellow need longer time! Or the fruits drop before the golden color appears.
Remedy
Kumquats like to grow in places with plenty of light, we'd better take care of the kumquat in the balcony, window sill and other places with plenty of light, try not to take care of the long-term maintenance in the dim indoor environment, we can put the kumquat in the morning on the maintenance of the sun, which is conducive to sterilization is also conducive to the kumquat fruit to become golden, and more conducive to the kumquat's Photosynthesis. Appropriate light can make the growth of kumquat into a good cycle.
Overwatering
Although kumquat likes water, but once overwatering caused by stagnant water soaked pots will lead to leaf drop, because no matter which kind of soil cultivated plants in the long-term stagnant water will lead to poor respiration, rhizome rot, which will lead to the drop of the leaves is self-evident.
Remedy
Kumquat care pots must choose air permeability and water permeability can be good, we need to pay attention to is watering can not be too casual, too frequent. In accordance with the principle of dry and wet to maintain can ensure that kumquat will not be waterlogged and drop leaves.
Soil discomfort
Kumquat likes acidic soil, if the soil is alkaline will cause harm to the normal growth of kumquat, alkaline soil judgment in fact there are many ways, here the flower valley for you to introduce a simple and practical probably judgment skills. Generally speaking, the alkaline soil is severely compacted, the surface of the soil will be white, at this time the need to loosen the soil will take a little effort, if your kumquat soil is also like this, it is the soil is alkaline.
Additionally, the soil is alkaline, and then the soil will cause serious impact on the plant's root growth, and the water permeability of this soil is also very poor, so it is difficult to water through, and the fertilizer is very difficult to dissolve into the inner part of the soil. It can be seen that this kind of soil is very unfavorable to kumquat growth.
Remedy
If you find that your home kumquat maintenance soil has been severely crusted, at this time you need to timely replace the potting soil, or loosen the surrounding soil, the soil close to the root system to stay a part of the soil, and then remove the excess soil in the appropriate supplementation of some fertile garden soil and so on to achieve the purpose. At this time you can supplement some acidic fertilizer, such as ferrous sulfate.
Improper fertilization
Many flower lovers in the flower care process will make some mistakes, no matter what fertilizer, no matter what flowers, how do you want to fertilize how to apply, I do not know that this is not feasible, the light is ineffective, the heavy is the death of seedlings. There are also flower friends often guilty of not knowing how much fertilizer should be applied, put too little fear of little effect, put too much and burn the roots. Hovering between the various errors, how can our flowers grow vigorously?
Remedy
If we raise the kumquat is too much fertilizer, we must take the water in time to soak, dilute, rinse. And timely treatment of water in the potting soil, the general principle of fertilization is thin fertilizer more. There is a need to pay special attention to is that we fertilize the kumquat is in the growth period, if the kumquat has grown fruit to a certain extent, it is best not to fertilize, so as not to operate improperly caused by the loss of fruits and leaves to dry up the situation.
Disease and insect hazards
Disease and insect hazards are important causes of kumquat leaf drying and fruit drop. The occurrence of diseases and insects in kumquat usually manifests itself in the form of curling of leaves, unidentified spots on leaves, and overall drying of branches.
Remedies
Pests and diseases can be devastating to kumquats, and their damage is so rapid that once we miss the best time, we end up with no remedy. About the control of pests and diseases, generally from the seedlings to start breeding only need, we go to the flower market to buy back generally less pests and diseases, not enough is also difficult to avoid. This will not be repeated.
The above is the flower valley for you to introduce the potted kumquat tree leaf drop causes and leaf drop response. This article can give you a maintenance reference, specific problems specifically analyze, I hope to help you! In a word, it is watering, fertilization, proper lighting, soil maintenance, pest control should be timely.