Hibiscus: Curling stems on Hibiscus, 1 by crissyr

crissyr wrote:
Michael you are so much help, you have no idea how much I appreciate it! Here are some answers:

1. Yes the stems are deformed, not wilted, there is no wilt on the plants at all.
2. The other two hibiscus haven't bloomed yet but they are budding, I'm waiting until they bloom to take more pics.
3. There were four big stems, one grew up and the other three grew vertical to the ground. I accidentally broke one of the ground ones off, so now there are three, the one standing up blooming, the other two grew vertical to the ground and they're not budding that I've noticed.
4. All of the blooms that I have seen are all stared shape, but I don't get to see them usually until I get home from work at 6:45pm, I don't have a lot of time to care for them and I think that's where I screwed up in the beginning.
5. They were all perfectly normal last year, I treated the sawflies and it was all good.

The Fireball is the smallest and is a year younger than the other two, I cut all of the curling off of it and it looks bad, has 4 stems with hardly any leaves. I'll get pics this weekend and post them for you on Monday. As for now...

This is the Kopper King on June 16, 2010