Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Not all sang blooms look alike, 0 by Tonny_and_Lene

Tonny_and_Lene wrote:
Jerodsmom,
I wouldn`t mind growing my sanguineas near to other Brugs. Many of the virus stories and plants dying from virus are not always what they seem.

I imagine that some will disagree with the following, but nevertheless, I am not trying to generalize or to extract some golden rules, but merely want to share, what is in my field of personal experience :)

For once, growing them in a too cold environment will cause them to grow very slowly, but what Brug would not? Many cases of yelloing leaves and leaf spots are many instances mal-nutrition or directly starvation symptoms. Sanguineas are very heavy feeders and have a special need for extras of chelated iron and magnesium.

Cold temperatures in combination with heavily rainfalls (or overwatering) can also cause another symptom that would make most Brug growers cry aloud: VIRUS!!!!!! Stemrot *lol* When a sanguinea uptakes more water that it can evaporate through the leaf pores the stem will in last instance crack up a bit and then there is an opening for fungus and bacterial attacks, but these ain`t virus, so they can be battled down again easily.

Currently Lene and I grow nine different sanguineas in the winter garden. Last year we got some from somewhere in Northern Europe and they didn`t look good. All the symptoms, that would make even the most casual grower say virus. I must admit that I tossed a few, but we kept the rest and those are looking like a million $$ this very moment. We grow them in high air humidity and about 37 *C during the day and between 11-14 *C during nights and they reward us fullhanded for it. Since February till now most of them grew from nothing but bare stems to between 20-50 cm loon shoots and most of the nine plants Y`ed last week. An exception is x flava "Gelber Engel". Some of the Y`s are on shoots no longer than 5 cm tall *lol*

Here`s a photo of the sanguinea corner taken the other day during morning coffea.