Gardenia leaves turning yellow
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Gardenia - after fertilizing leaves turned yellow and fell off
Comments (35)Maybe "cheating", but Grafted (onto G. thunbergia) gardenias by Monrovia (sold in many nurseries or directly thru website}, though $$ are much hardier/less fussy with watering & dying!!! The only plant I have truly killed is a gardenia! (Rose & fragrant flower nut.) I have an August Beauty (nursery person thinks since tag fell off), whose flowers are Huge! (3 1/2" in Fremont, CA in a 21" pot, now 4 years old & entire plant is enormous 4' x4'x3' with a slight weeping habit.). P. S. It did well but has really started to take off in the last 2 years once I was brave enough to cut off a strong shoot that never really had the right leaves & no flowers, finally figured out that was a "sucker" from the rootstock though situated smack in the center. That said, I've just started growing a double flowered Arabian Jasmine Sambac "Summer Soul" also Monrovia (pic). The flowers are huge for a jasmine 1-1 1/2" & the scent is heavenly (TDF), this beats everything else I have ever grown for scent hands down no contest, roses, gardenias, other jasmine etc.!!!!! P. P. S. Tried several other fragrant "gardenia-like" plants. Easier to grow but not impressed with strength/quality of scent on any. Including: African Gardenia (Mitriostigma axillare) & Orange Jasmine (Murraya paniculata) from Logee. Vietnamese Gardenia (Gardenia (Kailarsenia) vietnamensis) from Top Tropicals, & Double-Flowering Crape Jasmine (tabernaemontana divaricata 'flore pleno') from Kartuz greenhouses, also super slow 1st year. All outdoor pots in Fremont, CA, acid-loving potting soil, & no fertilizer till 2nd year just to be safe....See MoreGardenia jasminoides leaves turning yellow from bottom to top
Comments (3)This is why all my Gardenias died. They are one tough customer! I have two Vietnamese Gardenias and they started to get yellow leaves on the bottom too. So yesterday I potted them in the ground. If they die, then I give up! There are just too many other fragrant plants out there that I don't want to waste any more time, energy and money on something that I simply cannot grow! Good luck with yours. Hopefully you can diagnosis the problem and correct it before it's too late....See MoreGardenia Leaves Turning Yellow
Comments (4)If a leaf here or there turns yellow and falls off, that's normal. If lots of leaves turn yellow and fall off, the plant is dying. This is common to gardenias because they are very sensitive to errors in watering-- too much or too little, or quite often, too little followed by too much. If the leaves seem to be losing the vibrant greenness, then it might be an iron deficiency. As you can see, diagnosis is not always easy, tho IMO, a dying plant does start to just look terrible, and you can't miss it. A dose of epsom salts (magnesium sulfate) should produce a greenup if it's a mineral deficiency. Especially the new leaves, if any, will come in a dark vibrant green. Good luck....See Morecan I help gardenias this late?
Comments (3)did you leave out the fact that these were part of your big project.. and just planted this spring ... IF SO .... no plant holds its leaves forever ... the older leaves are internal ... and perhaps they were/are being sacrificed due to planting stresses ... when its this MINOR... LIKE THIS .. it means.. imo ... that you just barely missed doing it perfectly .. and its just shedding some older leaves.. a little earlier than it might normally do.. in fall ... IF I AM RIGHT ... and you just missed... barely ... then reacting and going over the edge.. with all kinds of voodoo .... it would simply be wrong ... i would water properly thru the rest of winter [in my MI ... i dont water in winter] ... lets see how they leaf out in spring.. and IF you still have a problem ... then we can figure out whats going on ... it is sometimes very hard.. to just have faith.. and not screw it up.. by what i might call .. loving them to death ... if you want to figure out how you just missed... well ... we would need a complete history of how it all went down ... and then we still might not be able to rule out the plants itself ... especially if you planted a hundred plants.. and the only ones that look like this.. are these ... to repeat ... look to the new growth.. the end tips.. not the old leaves on a plant.. to figure out if you have a current problem ... and yours look fine ... dont over react ... ken...See More- 19 years ago
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