Help! My plumeria is not growing and it's tips are turning black
Genesis Nicole Alpha
9 years ago
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Oregano leaf tips turning brown/black
Comments (1)It could be most anything, from an overcrowded pot to too much watering. Try and think back the past few weeks and recall of any fertlizers or sprays were used on it. If its indoors, it may need more sunlight. If its bugs, you may see tiny black gnats that are called fungus gnats and these can destroy plants, as well as infect every single plant indoors our outside. One way to know if its the gnats is to use yellow sticky traps and set one horizontally on the edge of the pot. Wait several hours, and if you see tiny flies stuck there, you have the gnats. My garden suffers from these as well, so I use either a Bt product to kill the maggots they produce (feed on the roots!), and also beneficial nematodes. It can also come from any soil you use as well as reused pots that are not sterilzed, and could even be in indoor plants right now. Oregano is one herb that doesn't like fertilizers and too much water. If its gnats, they can fly throughout the whole house and infest every single indoor plant too!...See MoreTip of Leaf Turned Black????
Comments (4)...could just be a bit of fertilizer burn expressing itself at the tip of the leaf. When that occurs in my plants it typically does not spread...just makes the leaf ugly....See MorePlumeria please help, black tip fungus?
Comments (7)Go buy a common garden fungicide (ie.Schultz). 1. cut mushy back to all green, let it dry an hour. spray with the fungicide. I then cover it with common household spackle to seal and make it look better. It will seal itself, but the spackle cuts down on cracking, new fungus, and looks clean. 2. This probably will not affect the plant, but I cannot see where the leaves are coming from. I would do the same as in #1 and leave the leaves if you can trim around. 3. Leave it. No mushy no problem, yet. Spray the tip and watch it. Some tips are slower to get started after frosts. 4. Spray the black and watch it. As long as it stays hard, the new growth will channel the energy and the hard black knob will just look black. You can trim it off with an exacto knife but I just let them go. I live in So,Cal and with light winter frost, then sping fog then rain, I have a battle with black tip every spring. Once it heats up, the problem is gone. But if you do not treat mushy stems they can kill the entire plant. Your plant look generally healthy, so spray the black tips after rain or if it gets wet. Also, on #1 make cuts at an angle so water does not sit on the cut. I cannot see how deep that hole is but this is the one to watch, the others should be ok. For future reference, a blanket or a sheet is not a good cover. These become wet and then freeze onto the plant, If you hunt around in farm supply shops you should be able to find some commercial frost cloth which is not expensive and you can fashion a cover for your plant. Frost cloth does not transmit cold so you can go into the high twenties for a short time and the plant stays protected. You can also put poles in the ground that come out in the spring, you put a cover over the plant because the settling of the damp frost is the most harmful to the plumeria....See MoreMango fruit turning black on the tip?
Comments (2)Not sure what causes it, but occasionally see what I call bottom rot on some mangoes. The fruit is inevitably destroyed by insects once the interior of the fruit is exposed. I know there are some fruits and vegetables that have rot on the flower end of the fruit as the result of a calcium deficiency. But with mangoes, I think there is a fungal component. I have seen this on Valencia Pride and also on Lancetilla, but not all the time. Harry...See MoreGenesis Nicole Alpha
9 years agoDave in NoVA • N. Virginia • zone 7A
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9 years agoGenesis Nicole Alpha
9 years agoDave in NoVA • N. Virginia • zone 7A
9 years agoGenesis Nicole Alpha
9 years agoGenesis Nicole Alpha
8 years agoDave in NoVA • N. Virginia • zone 7A
8 years agoDave in NoVA • N. Virginia • zone 7A
8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoGenesis Nicole Alpha thanked Dave in NoVA • N. Virginia • zone 7AGenesis Nicole Alpha
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