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My Correa 'Dusky Bells' has brown leaves...
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Posted by pennyw74 NSW (My Page) on Sat, Nov 24, 07 at 23:46
| I bought a Correa "Dusky Bells" from the nursery. Some of the leaves were brown on the edges. I have planted this in a large pot. It seems to be growing very well - it has only been in the pot for about three or four weeks. The plant has plenty of new growth on it but even some of the new growth has turned brown.
It gets the morning sun for a few hours but no hot afternoon sun.
I planted it in native potting mix with slow release native fertiliser and have given it a couple of doses of Seasol.
I have kept the water up to it because it's still reasonably new and in a pot.
What am I doing wrong?
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RE: My Correa 'Dusky Bells' has brown leaves...
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| I remember watching Peter once, he had a similar problem, well at least that what the person thought. Have you tried self fertilizing, otherwise perhaps be very skeptical. B.T.F |
RE: My Correa 'Dusky Bells' has brown leaves...
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| Here we go again B…you cannot continue to push your views of self feltization on others. It is clearly not the way to go. As we have discussed many times in the past years this is simply a horrible practice. I understand you believe it works well but you and Peter are on your own with these views. With our without water restrictions! |
RE: My Correa 'Dusky Bells' has brown leaves...
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- Posted by mallee South Australia (My Page) on
Wed, Nov 28, 07 at 6:48
| It sounds like salt damage to me. Back off on fertilizers and watering. Only water when the top 2-3 cm is dry (test with fingers) and when you water make sure the water flows from the drainage holes to flush the salts from the potting mix. If the water flows instantly from the drainage holes suspect that the mix has become non wetting and use a soil wetting product to make sure that your watering is effective. |
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