How to get rid of mold in flower

Mold in flower pots can appear for a variety of reasons ranging from excessive watering and finishing transplanting in flower infected with mold spores the soil. If you do not take measures, the spread of mold can lead to the death of a flower.

You will need

• - pot;
• - the ground;
• - expanded clay.

Instruction

1. The easiest way to destroy mold in a flower – is to change the soil. In this case, the plant is carefully removed from the pot, the roots freed from residual soil and shed a weak solution of potassium permanganate. The old soil can be used only in the case if you bake it in the oven at high temperatures. This will save the soil from excess moisture and will destroy the spores of mold. As profilaktirujut means the kidney is added activated charcoal.
2. Before you pour the soil in the pot is also necessary to keep in the oven or pour boiling water. This is possible only with ceramic pots, if the mold appeared in the flowers growing in the plastic, to ensure the absence of fungal spores in the container impossible.
3. To mold on colors appearing in the future, take good quality drainage. To do this, pour on the bottom at least 1.5-2 cm expanded clay, and it lay out the ground and Korenaga plant.
4. The upper part of the pot can be filled with a layer of sand or clay, they mold is formed much less frequently. In that case, if mildew still appears, you just washed and calcined expanded clay, or to replace the sand.
5. It is much easier to prevent moldthan to deal with it. So the rule is to bake newly acquired or collected in the forest soil where you plan to transplant the plant. This will prevent infection of the soil by spores of mold.