5 Cheap Easy to Use Home Remedies to Treat Powdery Mildew
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:36 Powdery Mildew Symptoms.
01:07 Ideal Condition for Powdery Mildew Spread.
01:28 Remove infected leaves.
02:26 Powdery Mildew of Zucchini.
03:55 How to dispose Powdery Mildew infected leaves.
04:45 Powdery Mildew control with Neem Oil.
06:55 Powdery Mildew control with Milk.
09:26 Powdery Mildew control with Baking Soda.
10:25 Powdery Mildew control with Apple Cider Vinegar.
11:23 Results.
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Powdery Mildew is one plant fungal disease which never fails to shock home gardeners. You see, the sudden emergence of white powdery spots on plant's leaves, stems, and fruit. Which otherwise were healthy a day before.
At, start off white spots appear on the underside of the leaves that quickly covers topside of leaves in a few hours' time only. As the disease advances, the spot gets bigger and plant leaves, stem and new growth get covered by a white or gray powdery film.
In your home garden, vine plants like zucchini, cucumber, squash, zucchini, cucumber, squash, grapes, and melon and other one like tomato, pepper can get powdery mildew disease.
Flowering plants like zinnias, roses, dahlias, chrysanthemum, and sunflowers too can get infected.
Different species of trees, shrubs, vines, flowers, fruits, grasses, field crops, and weeds get infected by different fungal spices spores. So, if you have a cluster of Zucchini plants, they all will get infected once one of them get the disease. But good news is it will not spread to other spices of plants.
Powdery Mildew disease is caused by fungi spores when climate is warm and dry. Fungi spores are microscopic meaning they can’t be seen by naked eyes. These can be compared with plant seeds. They too remain dormant till they get ideal condition to germinate. Once germinated they multiply quickly. Few species of fungal spores born in as little time as 48 hours. Once born they travel to other plants and soil via wind, insects, and splashing water.
Though Powdery mildew grows on leaf surface it takes it nutrients from leaf. The nutrients which otherwise would have fueled plant growth get sucked by it. Leaf covered by it cannot carry out photosynthesis resulting in less formation of plant food.
If disease remains untreated, a severe infection results in yellowing of leaves and distortion of leaves, flower, fruit and buds.
In advance stage of disease, you will see leaf wilt, branch dieback, premature leaf drop, blemishes on fruit, and buds that won’t open.
Yield and quality of flowers and fruits get reduced.
Powdery Mildew treatment
Prevention is better than curve saying goes well with powdery mildew. There are certain preventive steps if taken can save our plants from this disease.
The same steps are used to remove and control its spread. There are cheap but effective home remedies that can control powdery mildew.
Though all the below given remedies are organic and safe, do test it on a small portion of plant and wait for 24 hours to check for any adverse effect.
All spraying except milk spray is to be carried out strictly early morning before sunrise or late evening after sunset to avoid plant sunburn.
I will be sharing 4 cheap organic remedies using things available in your home and in the end one 100% free remedy to kill powdery mildew in plants.
Let's check them one by one
Neem Oil Spray
Neem oil is our only insecticide and pesticide to go when it comes to dealing with pests and disease in our plants. And Neem oil works wonderfully with powdery mildew too.
Milk Spray
Lately milk has been gaining popularity among home gardeners for organic control of Powdery mildew. It is one of the easiest remedies and one that works too. You can see the host of YouTube channel claiming its effectiveness.
Baking Soda
Another cheap organic home remedy for controlling Powdery Mildew in home Garden is use Baking Soda mixture.
Spray the mixture on plant leaves to prevent onset of the disease and if the disease has already set in, to stop it from spreading.
Baking soda is better known as preventive rather than the one that remove the disease.
If you have powdery mildew in the past, do a weekly preventive spray.
Vinegar
Vinegar is another cheap easy to use organic home remedy for powdery mildew.
It works opposite to baking soda in controlling the disease. It contains acetic acid and its spray of its mixture lower the leaf surface pH raising the acidity. Powdery mildew need pH level of kills powdery mildew.
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