Help! Raspberry leaves are mottled and curling!
Katie Parker
8 years ago
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Comments (7)I don't remember ever seeing anything quite like that, and I don't have room to grow raspberries!, but I have a suggestion!!! It doesn't really look like bugs to me, but on the slight chance that it is, try my Magic Cure All! Mix some Palmolive green dishwashing soap in water and thoroughly spray the whole thing--either on a cloudy day (not likely!) or late in the day when the sun is no longer hitting them. I recommend a pressure sprayer so you can really soak everything, including the back sides of the leaves, and I usually spray the soil around the base of the plants too. If you want to you can wait an hour or so and then "forcefully" wash the plant off with plain water to "wash off" anything that might be left, or if you do it late in the day you don't even really need to do that. I really don't think it's bugs, but no harm in trying! If you're watering deeply twice a week they could possibly be getting too much water, but that doesn't look like overwatering to me since the overall plant looks healthy! And I think raspberries can take a lot of water--raspberry growers correct me if I'm wrong about that! It almost looks like some sort of sun scorch to me, but sunburn usually turns leaves white, not dark, and if it were it would be a one-time thing and not progressive like you seem to be describing! Any chance an herbicide (or something else) might have blown onto them from a neighbor? If the bath doesn't seem to help at all you might want to cut off a cane or two and take them in to a "real" garden center and ask if they can help diagnose the problem. ("Real" garden center doesn't include places like the big box stores. Kelly at Timberline could probably help but it doesn't sound like you're anywhere near there. Possibly City Floral?) In Thornton we can only water twice a week this year too, but that only applies to turf up here. Perennials/annuals, veggies and things like small fruit can be watered as needed--assuming your not wasting water. You might want to check the Denver restrictions online to see if that's true for you too. Welcome to RMG, Skybird...See MoreBrandywine prob - leaves curled & brown
Comments (4)Could be flea beetles. Flea beetles will, at first, leave a number of brown/tan spots on leaves. As there are more flea beetles and they eat more of the leaves, those brown spots will increase and the leaf will be slowly killed off. An insecticide will take care of flea beetles. Yes, telling us where you garden helps a lot. Different parts of the country experience different climates, diseases, and pests. Pictures would indeed be helpful. Sometimes we can see many details in a picture that are hard to describe in words. If that doesn't work out, maybe you could let us know if you see any spots on the leaves or stems. Or, if the leaves themselves have an odd sort of color hue or maybe have a whitish powdery substance on some of them. For example, certain nutrient deficiencies cause the leaves to take on a purplish cast. Powdery mildew, a fungal disease, leaves whitish-grayish powder-like spores on leaves. At first it's just a little and then it increases and spreads. That will also cause leaves to curl. Weed killer will cause leaves to curl, as will viruses. It could be any number of things. If there are spots give us a detailed description of them (their color, are there yellow "halos" around the spots). How curly are the leaves? Are they just slightly bowed in or out, or drastically curled up like tight pigtails? The leaves themselves, are they solid green or is the color obviously mottled or streaked? Is the plant wilting, or is part of the plant wilting? Things like that. I guess a picture IS worth a thousand words. :-)...See MoreTomato leaves curling- is there no cure?
Comments (20)There is a difference between curling leaves and leaf roll b'c that latter usually appears early in the season and is the result of the root and foliage masses being out of balance, and corrects itelf as the plants mature. Lesuko, Jaune Flammee IS an heirloom tomato variety. My seeds from Norbert in France in 1992. Also, for many years I lived and gardened in Denver so know Boulder well, and the area, at least then and probably still now does not have the more serious viral diseases. What are known as the gemini tomato viruses are found much more often in the South , and now on both coasts, but primarily along the Gulf Coast. I went through the pictures again and I don't see any evidence of 2-4 D herbicide damage, but see below, and if it were I would expect other plants to be affected as well unless they were sheltered from the drift. Stupid Carolyn once Roundupped ( glyphosphate) her tomato field when preparing for a Master Gardeners group that were coming for a visit. Even got up early when no wind was blowing, but never underestimate the drift that can occur. All was well and I damaged just the bottom foliage of a few of the hundreds of plants out there, thank heavens. Lesuko, the only plant I'm not sure about is the third one down, the PL one and it could be 2-4 D damage as was mentioned above, but why just the one plant if it was a drift problem. have you used any herbicides recently or anyone nearby? Or was it a weak spindly seedling when you put it out and it looks young so maybe leaf roll, maybe leaf curl, I don't really know. But again,herbicide damages don't target just one plant, whatever the herbicide is. Carolyn...See MoreRaspberry leaf curl and drying up. Please help.
Comments (3)It was in full sun. This one was transplanted. I thought it would need time to adjust. And I did water the plant after. It doesn't seem to be getting any better. Don't really know what I should do....See MoreDan _Staley (5b Sunset 2B AHS 7)
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