Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical Garden #122, 1 by dyzzypyxxy

dyzzypyxxy wrote:
Alice, as KayJones said, high heat plus spider mites will do that. Mine all had a plague of spidermites in May and they looked like that. It was hot and dry in May here, cooler now. Go figure. Give it an extra big shot of water each day for a few days? You really can't overwater them.

I routinely treat all my brugs weekly with soapy water spray (with a little Windex in the mix, as per Deb) on the assumption that they just will always have spider mites if I don't. Try running your fingers over the bottom surface of the leaves that are left. IF they feel gritty, they've got (or had) da mites. Often their webs are not in the leaf axils, but all over the backs of the leaves instead.

First pic, my brug 'Damien' doing a weird thing, too. All the new leaves are sort of crinkled up, and rolled under at the edges. No sign of any bugs, or caterpillars and two others the same size in the same bed, 3ft. away are blooming happily. (they're all in big pots, not in the ground) Ideas Anybody? Otherwise I'm blaming the solar storms.

Second pic, my start of blue ginger doing great.

This message was edited Jul 16, 2012 5:19 PM