{"id":10026,"date":"2016-08-19T00:50:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T23:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10026"},"modified":"2016-08-05T12:01:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T11:01:51","slug":"treating-root-rot-in-houseplants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/pests-problems\/treating-root-rot-in-houseplants\/","title":{"rendered":"Treating Root Rot in Houseplants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Qargha Res Station - Pepper plants infected with Phytophthora Root and Crown Rot by IFDC Photography, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ifdcphotography\/4560843027\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3262\/4560843027_8c32976867.jpg\" alt=\"Qargha Res Station - Pepper plants infected with Phytophthora Root and Crown Rot\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Root Rot is a common fungus orientated disease caused by prolonged wet soil conditions. If you catch the problem early enough you may be able to treat the root rot and save the plant.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Root Rot Treatment<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Surgery may be required. Knock the plant out of its pot and gently remove the soil.<\/li>\n<li>Support the root ball so it doesn&#8217;t break off at the crown. If necessary wash off excess soil in wark running water.<\/li>\n<li>Examine the roots, any blackened or mushy brown root need removing.<\/li>\n<li>Cut off with a sharp, sterile knife well above the area of rot.<\/li>\n<li>Discard the rotten roots and pat remaining roots dry with a paper towel.<\/li>\n<li>Dust with a fungicide like flowers of sulphur.<\/li>\n<li>Dip into hormone rooting powder and repot in fresh soil.<\/li>\n<li>Put the plant in medium light, not full sun and be stingy with watering.<\/li>\n<li>If the plant is going to survive you will see good signs within\u00c2\u00a0 a week or two.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For mild problems of over watering take the plant out of the pot and leave it to drain and dry out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hormone rooting powder<\/strong> can also be used for cuttings and is available from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/s\/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_22?url=search-alias%3Doutdoor&amp;field-keywords=hormone+rooting+powder&amp;sprefix=hormone+rooting+powder\/richardpettin-21\">Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Root Rot Indoor Targets<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>African Violets<\/li>\n<li>Aloe<\/li>\n<li>Begonia<\/li>\n<li>Cactus<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/house-greenhouse-plants\/grow-colourful-gloxinia-as-houseplants\/\">Gloxinia<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Palme<\/li>\n<li>Kalanchoe<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Credits<br \/>\nQargha Res Station &#8211; Pepper plants infected with Phytophthora Root and Crown Rot by IFDC Photography CC BY-NC-SA 2.0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keep your houseplant roots, rot free<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pests-problems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}