Brugmansias

Freddy, is that a cutting or a seedling?

If its got yellow mottled leaves look very carefully on the underside, possibly with a lense, if its red spider you need to take action.
Lack of lower leaves is suspicious.

If its just a feeding problem, then its easily sorted with possibly a bit of epsom salts between normal feeds.

Oh, and yeah a bigger pot is in order.

 

Here's a little beauty, which is a American cross of two single blooms of Dorthea( Pink) x El Dorado ( Yellow).

Now this one which is soon to be registered and named by a friend of mine, and does a nice change of colour's. Drops down to a yellow, changes white as it puffs out and then colours up to a pink, a three for one! Her larger plant looked great as it had all these blooms with various colours on it, and I hope to post more pics of her as the weather improves

Here she is from the weekend and this morning



Wayne

 

Thanks for the replies.

I failed to read the instructions correctly. I thought it just said to pot on (once roots appeared from the bottom of the pot), but it actually said to pot on into a 13cm pot, which I've now done, using a 50/50 mix of Ji3 and MP (with a few hundreds and thousands thrown in). It's a cutting which when delivered stood at around 1ft tall. I may have accidently knocked off one or two leaves, but otherwise they have fallen off. I'll look for RSM, although I've kept the atmosphere humid.

Cheers...Freddy

 

Personally, as someone who is plagued by RSM every year, I think the humidity thing is a myth that always gets re quoted.
I do think growing plants in the shade deters RSM to some point, but they just love certain plants.
Has anyone had glasshouse white fly problems recently?
Shouldn't say this, but I've not seen any for a few years now.
Can remember them as being the biggest pest possible in the 80s and early 90s.

 

Big style. Although I am now (fingers crossed) RSM free...............

 

I'm just thinking maybe you get one or the other, I'd hate to get both at the same time.

 

I'm happier with W/fly than RSM any day of the week!

 

OK, if I find any, I'll send em to ya.

 

I have whitefly in the Tomato greenhouse each year (none yet though, they are presumably all packing their bags and getting ready to board the Holiday Express as we speak ... :( )

The tomato house has about 20 tomato plants in it, and 40 Marigolds ... I reckon they are a myth too - or there is a more noxiously-stinky, from the Whitefly's perspective, variety that I should be using? (Single rather than Double perhaps? Mine are French, but maybe African would be better? although too tall probably ...)

I tend to get some Red Spider too. And often a serious outbreak of Aphids in the greenhouse - just as the plants are getting prep'ed for hardening off phase - the greenhouse at its most humid / warm then, which presumably suits the blighters.

I have had good success with Neem Oil, with a little Horticultural Soap added as a surfactant to help it coat the leaves. Some plant's leaves object (Cucumbers I think) but I let those leaves succumb, in order to combat the invaders, and the plant can then make some fresh, bug-free, replacements. I do recommend it if you've not tried it before. Bit tedious - have to coat both sides of the leaf thoroughly, and its a somewhat smelly job (not unpleasant, per se, but lingers with you for a while). And then rinse it off a few hours later (to reduce damage to leaves). And then repeat every couple of days (non-systemic) for about a fortnight (got to continue for long enough to break the lay-egg/hatch/breed cycle), and then the problem is fixed (occasional prophylactic use is recommended thereafter, but I tend not to bother unless/until another outbreak starts)

 

Only if you take my RSM!!!

 

I've got to admit I've never tried neem oil.
It always sounds like a complete pain in the backside, and you have just confirmed it Kristen.

Anyway, I dont think my local garden centre sells it, so it must be illegal.

 

Neem Oil

 

So which one do you buy Freddy?

 

Probably none of them, a bit nervous of applying it to my 'Brug'. I was advised to use 'Dynamec' for RSM....

 

Dynamec?
Where do you get that from?