Today it became fashionable to give living potteryplants. And, for every holiday enterprising flower sellers offer us to make, so to speak, shopping in the subject. Here, for example, on the eve of Christmas and New Year counters of flower shops adorn ponsetti beautiful, which in the people is called a Christmas star. And if you received such a luxurious flower as a gift, then by the beginning of spring, and even soon after receiving the gift, you can suddenly find out that your beautiful punch has discarded the leaves. But even if this does not happen suddenly, the wrong care and living conditions, as well as the pests of indoor plants, can lead to the fact that punchetia sheds leaves. Let's find out the reasons for this undesirable phenomenon, as well as how to prevent it and how to fix it. 
Natural causes
In conditions that are favorable for themselves, the punch will belong to please you with its unusual colors. However, for pausetia characterized by a period of rest, coming immediately after flowering. At this time, the plant discards the leaves, which is a perfectly normal process. Therefore, if at the end of February or at the beginning of spring your punchet has discarded leaves, you should not panic. It is necessary to cut the stems of the poinsety exactly halfway and rearrange the pot with the flower in a cool place with dim lighting. However, it is impossible to completely deprive the plant of the light, as well as forgetting about watering. The temperature in the temporary shelter of the sleeping punch is not to drop below ten degrees, and the earth's lid should in no case dry up. In this state, the plant will be about a month and a half. And by the beginning of the last spring month, your sleeping beauty will begin to wake up. Transplant the flower into a new pot, take it out into a warm and bright room and begin to water it intensively and regularly feed it. A woken flower usually gives a lot of young shoots, but only four or five strong shoots are needed.
Care and maintenance errors
The reasons why poinsetia sheds leaves can hide in care and content errors:
- sharp temperature drop;
- overmoistening and drying out of earthy coma;
- lack of lighting;
- dry air.
As you can see, the reasons are banal. And if in the active period for the plant to water it, keep it in a warm and bright room, regularly feed and sprinkle, the flower will feel quite comfortable. However, some mistakes of leaving can cause not only the loss of leaves, but the death of a flower. If you freeze the punch, for example, during transportation, then it will be impossible to revive the flower. In the first place, leaves fall off her, and then roots die. With excessive watering, poinsety also begin to rot roots and fall off leaves. And to save such a flower will also be very difficult. But the insignificant drought of the poinset is enduring. And even if it discards leaves for this reason, it can be quickly returned to the form, simply observing the correct watering regime. On dry air in the room, the flower also reacts poorly, as it does to drafts or low temperatures. But, in addition, dry air can contribute to damage to plants by pests. And then poinsety also drops leaves. 
Pests
The leaves lose punch, damaged by arachnoidmite. These are very small spiders of red color that settle on the underside of the leaves of the punch and envelop them with a thin white cobweb. To get rid of this pest will help washing the leaves with tobacco infusions and pollination with ground sulfur. In addition, you can use special insecticides for indoor plants. In addition to spider mites, scab and fly meal are dangerous pests. The mealy moth and larvae of the scutellum feed on the juice from the leaves of the punch. For this reason, the leaves weaken, turn yellow, dry up and fall off. In case of defeat of poinsety, these pests also need to wipe the leaves and stems of the plant with a moist sponge, mechanically removing pests. First, the flower is treated with a soap solution, and then rinses the leaves thoroughly with clean water. If such procedures do not help, then use special medications. So, for a comfortable existence of punch in your house, it is necessary to create conditions close to natural:
- moderate temperature,
- moderate and regular watering,
- sufficient lighting during the active period;
- sufficient air humidity.
And if you also protect the punch from drafts andsharp changes in temperature, then it will dump leaves only during the rest period. And this, as we have already said, is perfectly normal and a natural process. Observe the rules of care and content of poinsety, and by the New Year holidays in your house the bright Christmas star will shine. Good luck! We advise you to read:
