This is the other plant I'm worried about.
Second plant in question
My candidas and aureas do this too..
It's a seedling? The leaves look very tender, you may have burned them and caused this when they were very tiny and you didn't even notice it. The affected leaves on each plant seem to be in exactly the same stage of growth. What did you spray about 3-4 weeks ago?
looks fine to me
I think we have all had things like this happen before, and weren't aware of anything like a virus, now we all are looking extra hard at anything at all different on our leaves. Try taking the bad leaves off, don't spray with soap/tea tree oil, bet all the new leaves will look great.
Sure hope so anyway, the brugs need to get outside with fresh air and plenty of room and lots of sunshine.
Glory
Mar 09, 2002
Snow,
I'm sure it will be fine....there could be 101 things that could be causing those spots.
We lost our power due to high winds so I just got online to read this. Cala, These were cuttings not seedlings. Whew! I feel a lot better now.I was worried all evening.I'll just keep my eye on them now and stop worrying. Thanks everyone for your input. You saved their lives.
I agree with Hibiscus .Nobody was aware of any virus until VH stirred it unnecessarly up. It sounded like all our Brugmansias here in Europe were already half dead. We must be careful, but was it not so, that you all have been happy with your plants knowing nothing! You must accept that a tiny bug may infect your brugmansias any day, some day, but the plants do not loose their value to us.
Please dont forget, Virus is not a problem to Brugmansia alone, but to all other plants. You all feel fine until somebodys tells you that your beloved azalea, buddleia, calla and like calaliys passifloras, prone to Virus. If we fear it, we have to get rid of all our living plants and collect plastics. Virus is a natural element. We cannot eliminate it.
You're right Monika. After posting the pictures and hearing from the experts I will now go back to enjoying my plants and watching the buds forming on some in the GH.
PS. I hate plastic plants. LOL
Monika
I agree. My passifloras are prone to viruses, but can live with them and only show signs when under stress. Lots of our perennials have a virus and as long as it's not something like lily mosaic that destroys the plant, we wouldn't even notice it. The USDA worries about viruses that can be harmful to important crops, but most of them already have some viruses. I looked at a lot of websites when this issue first came up and all the stuff that's out there could make one very paranoid. I just KNEW that everything in my yard was going to be consumed with a virus. I've decided not to worry, I'll deal with it if it shows up, but until then, I'll just enjoy my beautiful flowers. BTW, many food crops are being developed to be either resistant to or tollerant of viruses, and I think we should work toward this goal with our brugs.
I fully agree with you, Calalily.. We should be aware of the virus problem but dont be hysteric about it.
Great way of thinking Monika. I just want blooming flowers and if one dies I propably killed it any way
Pete