Have you any idea what this might be on the leaves of these new rootings?? I'm searching my books but haven't found anything yet. I'll send another photo, following the one attached to this post. Thanks!!!
Off to a bad start...
2nd photo of the damage to the leaves of my rootings. Thanks again for any cure that might work!
Where is Susie?
SOS, SUSIE!! I've got my book out and it looks like rust and, or salt, I suspect both. Waddayathink, Brugie?? Should I remove the plants from the GH?? I've already opened the windows for better ventilation...
Have you sprayed with anything lately?
Aphids. And, upon further investigation, there are some white thingies on the underside of a few leafs, and a small amount of black stuff, that I assume in bug poop - I know what pest that is, but I've forgotten, is it aphids??? If not, do you have any idea what it might be. Linda, I assume you think that maybe some of the spray got on the rootings and the answer is, yes, that is possible, and might explain why all of the rootings had the spots, but the ones closest to the spray had the most. Do you think maybe that's the answer??? Oh, and, thank you very much, the most important part of the post!!
My initial thought was a chemical burn of some kind. I've had that happen to me on several occasions and have been blessed to have the babies survive it okay. I hope they'll be alright, Sherry!
I can see them well enough to tell what is going in. But I know my outside and hoophouse brugs get some pretty funky looking leaves in the winter. In the spring they bounce back.
I think the white thingies might be white flies and the black stuff could be some kind of bug doo. I'd give them a spray of that Ortho Systemic Insect Killer and see if you can knock down the bugs.
From what I can tell looking at the pics, you have some kind of bug sucking the juice out of the leaves. Looks like whitefly damage. Pick off as many of the big leaves as you can(they will probably fall off anyway if it's whitefly infestation), spray the undersides of the leaves with neem, safer's soap, avid or pyrethrum(DON"T mix those, just pick one and use it). You will have to spray several times. The whitefly lifecycle is about 21 days depending on temp. The eggs and one other cycle in their life is hard to kill so you have to spray more than once.
Thanks, so very much, to all of you!!! Taking a chance, last night I sprayed with Safer Insecticidal Soap and Seaweed Extract, which is neems and seaweed and specifically for: aphids, mites, mealy bugs and whiteflies (and other stuff) Today, everything looked 100% better, the Safer spray is WOW. I have a question - wouldn't I see the whiteflies if they were there?? I've decided that my puckered leaves that I continue to see is due to irregular watering, which my new handy dandy, pest and diseases book discusses and describes and is what the extension service told me last year...I hope to fix that this year...
Sherry, they are the little white things you mentioned above. Generally they don't move much unless you bump the leaf or touch them with your finger. Nasty little critters and hard to get rid of.
Brugie, they did not move but it could be because the Safer from another plant might have done them in, there is just no movement. Did I mention that I put in a couple of those yellow fly thingies, like a streamer, to catch the flying bugs??? If you use one of those, be very careful, I got under one and when I came up it was laying across my hair, on the top of my head - I had to cut my way out!!! I'm lucky I'm not bald...
LOL! Oh my gosh, those things are horrible in the hair. I put one in the greenhouse my first year and it didn't last a day.
My son says I look like I lost a pretty good fight, whew, I would say!! If Brugie and I are the only ones that have tried those things, the rest of you might want to get it way outta the way when you put it up, lol, man, what a mess. And, the one for crawling bugs for the floor is just as bad, but having something stuck to your foot is much better than your hair...
I've had the sticky paper in the hair too. Now I hang it between the plants where I don't walk. Some of the leaves have stuck to it tho.
I guess it goes with the territory and I will tell you this, once it happens to you, it's not something you forget, ha!!
Something that works great for bugs on the floor, especially if you can tuck it out of the way, is the glue traps for mice. I keep one on the basement steps and you can't believe the bugs it will catch. I originally put one there to catch a mouse that I heard in the dog food, and have just kept one there ever since. No mice caught..just bugs.
Yes, Brugie, that's the one i was talking about that stuck to my shoe - but the only thing I've caught is one little spider that I thought might be a good pest...
I use the kind that fold and make a triangle so stepping on them wouldn't get you into trouble. LOL!
I'll check the triangles out, I haven't seen them...
They come in flat sheets that you fold. I don't remember where I bought them. Either the market or WalMart.