Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Not just pink brugs are growing in my brug garden!, 1 by Kell

Kell wrote:
LOL Mary! I do not think it will hold me or I might.

Here is a picture of a witches' broom and it does kind of look like it but this is made of leaves not twigs.

I keep getting interrupted. First a walk and then I had to make dinner tonight, not my best thing to do. My husband seems to be on strike. I came in here after I put on home made tomato sauce on the stove to reheat after I spent hours cooking it all day from my tomatoes I grew. And of course I forgot and burned it. So I had to regroup fast and put together another meal. Shoot.

Anyway, finally I decided to force feed them to try to stimulate new leave growth. I actually used grass fertilizer with a whopping nitrogen number and it worked. I fed them a huge handful every week for several weeks and also foliar fed them. And they started to push out new lush growth. The only one I didn't feed was the one in the first picture. It is in the backyard and I never got around to bringing the big bag fertilizer back there. So it looks exactly the same as it did!

But the others are in lush new growth now.

Here is one of my best seedlings from last year that is lush now with new shoot growth but the tips that have the spider growth persist doing little.