In spring, it's time to grow seedlings, and if you want to get a good harvest, it's better to do it yourself, rather than buy ready. This also applies to eggplant. However, be prepared for the fact that this vegetable is very demanding and prone to many diseases, because of which eggplants have white leaves, stems and roots are affected.
What if the leaves of the eggplant are white?
Among the pests that lead to leaf diseases are a spider mites and aphids. The latter is the most common and dangerous pest, it simply sucks the juices from the plants and leads to their gradual death. To combat it you need to sprinkle seedlings with one of the solutions:
- tobacco dust and wood ash with soap;
- the root of a dandelion.
From chemicals, "Fitoverm", "Iskra" or "Agroverin" will help.
A spider mite is harmful to the underside of the leaf. To destroy it, apply "Fitaverm" and "Intavir". Either infusion of garlic and dandelion leaves. For general prophylaxis against pests, seedlings can be sprayed on the third day after germination with a Bordeaux mixture (0.2%).
The reason and the answer to the question, why do the seedlings of the eggplants have white leaves, may not be a pest, but a seedling disease, for example - a black leg . Its development is facilitated by such factors as wetland, high density of planting, low temperature regime. If the disease develops, the root first suffers, then the whole plant. Methods of struggle logically follow from the reasons - they just need to be eliminated, probably, seedlings can still be preserved.
Another unpleasant disease of eggplant is fungal infection (sclerocinia and fusarium). If the reason is, you need not just transplant the seedlings, but also destroy diseased plants. They need to be burned and the soil removed, since the fungi can stay in it for a long time. Before
The possible reason that the seedlings of eggplants have white leaves can be banal sunlight. Especially if water droplets hit and remained on the leaves, after which they were exposed to direct sunlight. Like a lens, water droplets led to burns and whitening of these areas. Do not allow such cases, if you want to keep the seedlings healthy until it is planted in the open ground.
Even if you encountered problems on the way of growing seedlings, you can still count on a good harvest of blue-violet pot-bellies.