Tropicals & Tender Perennials: From BAD to WORSE!!!!!, 0 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
My Equador Ping Brug has never recovered! See my previous post (July 23 "Help! What's happening to my Brug?) As I write this, I found it on p.15 at the bottom. Soon it will slide off p.20 and into oblivion!

Anyway--back then I had all these yellowy, diffused fungal spots on all the leaves. I did spray the plant with Daconil. It may have "stopped" the spread off these spots, but since then, I have lost almost all the leaves. BESIDES!!! All the tops of the 4 stems have been chewed off (not sure if that is true?) and have turned into stubs. All the "Y"'s turned soft (like an asparagus top) and just fell off if touched. It is NOT making any significant new growth!

When it was still healthy, I had ONE bloom. That is it so far! YES! I fertilize it enough! And water enough! It gets good sun all day also. At this time, there are 2 crippled buds trying to make it. One started out all curled under.....

I have sprayed the leaves a couple of times with Garden insect spray--tops and bottoms. I have checked for "critters", but the only thing I have seen is a very few, little, white bugs on the underside. Might be MITES? Maybe Aphids? My main question is, WHAT HAPPENED TO THE TOPS??? Any hope left for the rest of this Summer?