HELP! My brug has the measles!!

I just moved this brug into my hoop house the other day, it was fine....no problems. Now it looks like some lichen or plankton or some other such thing is colonizing all over it!
It does not rub off.

The back of the leaves are much worse then the front. In places it has eaten thru the leaf and left holes.

My hoop house is very wet. Water is dripping from the ceiling. MY CG got brown spots on its flowers which it had never done outside. I am sure it is from the moisture.


Woe is me! Has anyone ever seen such a thing?

and the back.......... has the crud much worse

Oh my Kell. Great shot.

and here is a much nicer sight...LOL
My son just brought back my camera and I found all sorts of pics on it.......here he is at his frat ball last Wednesday with his girlfriend!

LOL Deb............ great shot of what?? My latest misery? LOL

Kell . . your photo just shows it so well. Would make one of those great teaching photos. She is a cutie. Hope they had a great time.
As you can tell I am no help. Did you check the BGI site under pests?

That looks really strange. I've never had this problem yet. Maybe next year. I seem to find something new cropping up all the time. Hope someone can help you out with an ID for this.

I just noticed that Deb.......LOL..... my DH is going to buy me a better camera for closeups for Christmas..... I am surprised it is not blurred.

So where is smart Jeanne when you need her??.............. I should pay points like Cala does......LOL

That looks bad! It actually looks like acid burn. I used to haul all kinds of chemicals in a tanker and that's what first came to my mind. Did you by any chance clean the inside of your hoop house with something that didn't get rinsed off properly? There could be some residue that is dripping down from the ceiling. Just a thought.

IT"S NOT BAD It is caused by watering when the humidity is high, the cells take up too much water, but the humidity doesn't allow them to transpire(give off water) and the cells burst. It's purely cosmetic, but watch that a bacteria or fungus doesn't cause a secondary infection. I'd cut the leaves off if I were you.

Cala, Thanks girl, now if this picture and question end up on a quiz, we will all know the answer!

I had one a while back, but Kell's pic is much clearer.

thank goodness cala................thanks so much!! if you want I will email you the pictures and you can use them for a future class. I am so relieved. I thought oh my God!!

the leaves are long gone!

Painted Lady, you are right...........it does look like an acid burn!

Cala,
In your opinion is it necessary to dry out the greenhouse everyday if possible..... I open up all my doors and let it dry out from the night before.

I had that last spring on the leaves of a fuchsia basket. I was told that it was purely environmental - caused by watering the plant while it was in the plastic sleeve at the store then left in the sun. I just removed the leaves, no problem.

Kell, could be a fungal thing from the excess humidity. Try spraying with baking soda.

I think this a special moos ( like seaweeds ).
You have the moos in pots and the spores germinate in very humid in GH on the leafes. Have had this in GH, too.
Not dangerous for the brugs only the leaves will fall down.
GL

geez Ludger, bad enough I look like a cow I sure do not want to moo, too!!!

LOL Ludger, smile

Hey Kell,
I mean that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I used my wordbook ( dictonary or so....) moos and seaweeds are the little green things you also have at GH.Glass.
Sometimes this very small plants germinate on leaves and destroy them.

Very hope I didn´t use a word you normaly use for kidding( teasing).
If I did.........sorry.

LOLOLOL Kell, you say from yourself you are blondlololol

and now you say something about cows.....lolol

A blond....lololol
I go to another thread lol.

You did with me, too...smile.

Very hope you are not angry because of my very bad lol words.
Good Greetings and don´t kill me
Ludger

ROTF ....LMAO



Kell I may be a chicken but I don't moo!!!!!

The cells have burst from too much water. Good air movement is important in a greenhouse. Plant transpiration is the movement of water molecules from the plant's leaves into the air. There is a thick cuticle on the surface of the leaf that prevents excessive moisture loss. There are small pores in this cuticle to allow oxygen to leave and Carbon Dioxide to enter the leaf surface.Water also leaves the leaf thru these pores during transpiration. When the plant has taken up lots of water(it's a sunny day, the plant is on the verge of being dry and you give it a big drink) but the humidity is high(nearly 100%) the plant can't give any water into the air, so it stays in the cells. As the air cools as night approaches, the air pressure changes, the plants don't transpire at night, and the cells are still full of water. The cells burst.It's not bad for the plant, only that leaf, it won't kill the plant, the leaf will even heal,although the burst cells will turn brown. I hope you understand what I'm trying to say, lol. I made a "B" in technical report writing in college because I'm terrible at explaining things!!

I only talked from my GH with high humid and the same signs on leafes.

People from university told the same.I asked for a look.

My be in other GH´s there are other reasons.
This is why I love Forums....we can share all.And may be find new informations.
GL

Kell, put a fan in the GH and that will help.

Yep, I forgot to mention that too. I open the doors and turn the exhaust fans on during the day.(actually they usually come on with a thermostat, but if it's dripping in there, I bump the thermostat so they will kick on)

I made myself a homemade greenhouse last fall [I call it my 'wannabe' GH]
I had all sorts of problems with mold on the soil in there last year and rectified it this year by hanging a 42" ceiling fan below the eaves that runs 24/7 and a small bathroom exhaust fan that sits above the [wintertime] insulted eaves. I can choose [I installed one of those interior basement dryer vents on it] to vent it to the outside if the humidity becomes to high in the GH or into the GH to recycle the heat up there when the humidity is lower by simply changing the damper position. It seems to be working well this year for me.

Kell, Thanks for posting those pictures. I have had EXACTLY the same thing on some of the leaves on a few of my brugs since I put them in the greenhouse (about 6 weeks ago) &/or a back porch area that does have foggy windows in the morning. I have started running fans more often & have not seen but one or two leaves with a little bit of this in the past couple weeks. The plants in the greenhouse that are to the rear of the fan and in a corner were the most affected. I picked all the leaves off that had it as I was afraid it was some kind of horrible fungus! I'm so glad to find out it is not. This is a damp area. If it's not foggy in the morning - it's raining. Good old Seattle weather.

Hey sewcrazy - I know what you're talking about. I'm just up the road a bit, in Vancouver - the BC one.

Moss,Kell,lol