This article explains in detail the solution to the yellowing and curling of cat's eye bamboo taro leaves.

Cat's eye taro is an indoor foliage plant, native to the tropical rain forest from South America to Central America. Its leaves are light green, grayish green and other colors, with gorgeous feather markings or irregular markings. The back of the leaf is often purplish red or grayish green, very beautiful. However, in the process of culture, it may cause yellowing and curling of cat-eye taro leaves due to various reasons, which seriously affect the ornamental value of cat-eye taro. This article explains in detail the solutions to the yellowing and curling of cat's eye taro leaves and matters needing attention in culture.

I. the causes and solutions of yellowing and curling of cat's eye taro leaves.

1. the light is too strong

The strong sunlight shines directly on the shade-loving cat's eye taro, which is easy to cause the leaf tip and leaf edge to wither and curl, and the sunny part of the leaf appears macula.

2. Overwatering

If the young leaves of the cat's eye taro are dark yellow and dull, the old leaves have no obvious change, the branches are small yellow-green, and the new shoots are not long, indicating that the cat's-eye bamboo taro is overwatered. Put the cat-eye taro out of the pot in a cool and ventilated place, blow-dry the soil and then put it back into the basin.

3. Too little watering

If the tip or edge of the cat's eye taro leaves wither, dry or even curl, the old leaves wither and fall off from the bottom up, but the new leaves grow relatively normal, indicating that the cat's eye taro is too little watered, pay attention to watering enough and thoroughly.

4. Lack of light

Cat's eye taro placed in a shady environment for a long time, the leaves can not get enough sunlight, can not form chlorophyll, resulting in cat's eye taro leaves turn yellow, and then fall off, supplementary light can prevent cat's eye taro leaves from yellowing.

5. Fertilizing too little

The color of young leaves of cat's eye taro becomes light, yellow or light green, while the old leaves are relatively normal or gradually change from green to yellow, which may be caused by too little fertilization. Check the cat's eye taro pot soil, if there is a dry knot phenomenon should change the soil, usually apply thin fertilizer frequently and timely pour some alum water, should give the cat's eye taro mainly nitrogen fertilizer.

6. Fertilizing too much and too thick

Excessive fertilization or excessive concentration caused by too little watering leaves yellowing, curling, manifested in the cat's eye taro new leaf tip appears dry brown, generally cat's eye bamboo taro leaf surface is thick but not glossy, and concave and convex does not stretch, the old leaf scorched yellow fall off. Should immediately stop fertilization, serious washing with a large number of cat's eye taro part of the fertilizer.

2. Matters needing attention in culturing Cat's Eye Taro

The cat's eye bamboo taro prefers semi-shade, is not tolerant to direct sunlight, and adapts to growing in a warm and humid environment. Matters needing attention in culture are as follows:

The main results are as follows: 1. When the air temperature exceeds 35 ℃, it is disadvantageous to the growth of cat's eye taro leaves, so we should pay attention to ventilation and spraying water to cool and moist the cat's eye taro.

2. For the beauty of cat's eye taro, clean soft cloth can often be dipped in clean water to scrub the leaves of cat's eye bamboo taro, so that the leaves are bright and shiny.

3. When applying fertilizer, we should pay attention to that the nitrogen content should not be too much, otherwise the leaves will be dull and the markings will fade.