Over-watered blueberry (?)
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water stress on blueberry bushes?
Comments (2)Just a couple of guesses. Baby blueberries get sunburn really badly if they aren't introduced to the sun carefully. With sunburn, the leaves turn a slightly shiny copper brown and dry up and drop off. Blueberries will not tolerate drying out at all. It only takes one day in dry soil to make them drop all their leaves. Blueberries don't like too much water. If they don't have good drainage they start to look sick and lose leaves. If your established blueberries are fine, it probably isn't a pH problem, unless your soil is right at the very edge of acceptable and the older plants are not as tender....See MoreIs tomato over watered? Under watered? Over fertilized? (pics)
Comments (5)I don't think that anything really looks wrong with the big tomato. It might not have appreciated the temps down to the 40s that one night, but it will recover. If there's anything else wrong with it, it is not pronounced enough to be identified. Just let us know if anything starts to look bad. For the seedlings, the dried up tips look like they didn't get enough water at some point. They're fine now, even the ones with the burnt tips. They just dried out sometime in the last week. If they are on a heat mat, this can accelerate the water loss from the plants if the soil medium dries out. The fluorescents won't burn them. I often let my seedlings touch the lamps....See MoreTifblue blueberries, fert/watering over winter?
Comments (1)Yes to water, no to fertilizer. If the weather is going to freeze you should water your plants long enough in advance that the soil around the roots will be moist, not wet or soggy. Fertilizer encourages new growth so you don't want that until it starts to warm up in the Spring....See MoreOver watering hypothetical: over watereing a Colocasia
Comments (3)I agree with the earlier post. There's not many Colocasia species although C. esculenta does have a couple of thousand cultivars. It would be a bit rash to generalise too readily but most are water plants to a greater or lesser degree. I've seen them growing naturally in habitat where runners have spread out over water and new pups formed. Their problem isn't the fact they're in deep water per se but that if the roots don't anchor the plant then it rolls over as it gets top heavy. However, new leaves still keep coming up vertically until it gets top heavy again and the crown ends up staying under water. I've got one cultivar that ended up covering a pond as so many plants eventually supported one another. So in a pot I don't think you could over water it to that extent....See More- 10 years ago
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