DATURA DOUBLE YELLOW - MY FIRST

What are the yellow spots on the leaves and what are the two little fat things in the very middle? Leaf forming?
Doesn't look like the others did when forming. Should I be pinching out the middle to make it bushy?

Thanks,
TLC

The two fat things *lol* They are the flower buds and you can expect flowers very soon, so please don`t pinch it. The spots on the leaves ... are they a bit mushy or how would you describe them? Its difficult to tell from a single picture, but it look like they are grown in high humidity?

Tonny

Started them in the house mid Dec on a high shelf so it must have been about 75 degrees up there.
When they popped up-moved them to our heated garage which has windows in it. Under grow lights-which are on about 10 hours a day. Noticed that my humidity was getting to around 70% due to the number of plants out there. Posted on Dave's-what should humidity be? someone said 50%. So cut back on the watering and now only water a few plants every day-staggering my watering schedule. That helped bring it down to 50 to 60 % humidity.
But of course by the time I figured this out-these guys were growing fast.
16-4-2 liquid fish emulsion 1 1/2 tsp per gallon distilled water is used for watering.
THE LEAVES . . . look like chlorophyll is missing and in some spots there is actually a hole through.
Today, thinking they might not need the lights anymore -
move to sunny south or east window.
Hope you can help
OH, the blooms! well I thought they would get taller than this;they are only about 5" high. When do they gain stature?
TLC

And all of my plants get a shot of very dilute daconil-anti fungal occasionally. Sometimes just from a squirt bottle.
TLC

Twin,

May I ask where you obtain your daconil-anti fungal additive?

Thanks in advance!

5 inches - wow that's gonna be a whopper!!

Azaelea,
you jest . . the blooms are NOT 5" across
the whole plant is 5" high! Thought these were supposed to grow into big bushes!

Have around 200 little peat pots under the lights -various seeds

Only encouraging one is the Hyacinth Bean Vine (those seeds came from you and Mystic)



Morph,
Daconil by Ortho - Home Depot $17.99. 1 1/2 tsp per gallon of water

Thanks, TLC :)

TLC,
I am affraid I have bad news about your plant. I just checked up and it is not a metel, but D. tatula, probably La Fleur Lilac, that bloom in low height. If you look at the calyx and imagine slicing it its shape will be pentagonal and the metels is round. There is still much names confusion in the Genus Datura as there was in 1990. *lol* However, don`t give up. Your plant will have nice flowers with nice scent and be followed by spiny pods.

Oh, how sweet of you to bother, Tonny! And it's not necessarily bad news; I like short plants too. This is my first time with Daturas and I would like to have many different kinds if I can grow them. Right now I am too new at gardening to get fussy about what I get.

Guess we will just wait and see what color when the bloom opens. How long do you think under the lights it will take for that bloom to open?

I think the yellow spots might be due to using fish emulsion. 16-4-2 half strength because a few other plants are showing a little of this. I will cut it out for a while and see if that stops the yellow spots from coming.

Would not think misting diluted anti fungal (daconil) would cause the spots.

TLC
PS Am editing to note that I just read that fish emulsion is the one fertilizer that you cannot harm potted plants with so I am back to scratching my head about the yellow spots.

And Tonny,
wonderered where your line of thought was going ie. growing in high humidity . . . what did you see that told you that? Thanks

This message was edited Friday, Feb 7th 8:58 PM

OK, Tonny is this what you were alluding to?

To Quote Calla, "Sometimes when you water a plant on a sunny day when the humidity is high, overnight the cells in the leaves will burst causing the leaves to look very odd. This isn't a disease, simply the plant trying to rid it's leaves of excess water. The spots will eventually turn brown, disintegrate and leave holes."

Think this explains it as, on closer inspection, some of the other plants have done this too.

Thanks for helping me along with this; will make another change in watering.

TLC

PS So exciting when you can understand what is going wrong!

TLC, yess! Exactly. I had this problem with Gelber Engel too some years ago and didn`t understand it. You are right about the excitement of understanding symptoms. *lol*

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