I was repotting some seedlings today and ran into this on one. One of these is at the soil line and the other is about 2 inches above it. I need help from all of you experts. Jeanette
I need some help
Not real sure what you need for an answer? When you said seedling, I was looking for small plants, whereby this looks like a large cutting? Are you wondering if it has a disease? Please explain a little more. Would like to be of more help to you.
It looks like a wound. Fertilizer could have touched the edge. Occasionally, I will have a plant that is growing to fast and there will be a split in the bark, which eventually heals. If it has healed and is not mushy, I would not worry. Just keep an eye on it to make sure. Brugs are like people-they are not perfect and have blemishes.
Are you saying that if it is dry and not mushy it would not be Stranglebrand? Jeanette
Hibiscus, seedlings do grow. There was a debate a while back about at what point do seedlings cease to be seedlings. Can't remember what the decision was, but think maybe when they bloom? If I remember I will let you know.
Jeanette
I agree with Barb. It just looks like an injury. Last summer a couple of my big plants did that same thing, only on a big scale. I think it was just too much rain and then heat and the skin of the plant just exploded. It healed over and went on to be fine.
LOL Barb, ain't that the truth. And the older I get, the more blemishes appear.
Gee Jeanette, I would say it got hurt somehow and healed like Barb thinks. Is it black colored? I have lots of sores like that on mine esp after the winter. But they are dried and have a normal color to them. Some split and have dried cracks in the bark. Rather large ones too!! Doesn't seem to hurt the brugs at all. I think brugs are soft, even the hardened lower wood. I notice they can get scraped very easily. Keep a close eye on it and separate it out. I do that to all my questionable ones. So far, all have been fine.
SB looks bad from the pictures I have seen. I think you would recognize it as diseased if you had it. There is a thread that has pictures on it. Looking at them may help make you feel better.
I remember that seedling discussion. I too, do not think we came to a consensus. I have been calling mine 1 year old seedlings and now 2 year old seedlings. Or 2003 seedling or 2004 seedling.
I have seen this. You're in Washington? We have the same big slugs.
This week when I was taking some seedlings out I found one of our PNW big slugs, which had spent the winter inside the GH, chowing down on the stem of a Monika seedling. Literally, it had eaten through the hard outside into the green cambium.
I took the pot outside and checked the drainage holes. Sure enough, 3 slugs had dined all winter.
Oh NO Liz, the barbarians got thru your gates??? And they had excellent taste too.
LOL Kell. You have an incredible memory. I posted a truly disgusting pic of a giant PNW slug about 2 years ago. Titled Barbarian at the Gates.
And yes Kell, they are gourmands. The Monika's are their favorites.
Take that as a compliment Monika.
Funny, Deb just said that to me a few minutes ago. LOL. The truth is I must have a selective memory! And rarely does it select anything to remember. However I do remember that huge slug of yours. It was what slimy nightmares are made of. LOL
Liz I see you are on the coast, Vancouver. I am in Eastern Washington and it gets too cold here for slugs. At least in any numbers. I have lived over here, from Seattle, for 10 years and think I have seen maybe 3 slugs in all that time. They are so gross.
btw, I remember seeing pictures of your yard that you posted Liz, absolutely beautiful.
Anyway, thanks you guys for the reassurance that I don't have SB.
Jeanette
I didn't think it got too cold for slugs. LOL It must not get cold enough here.
I think it freezes the eggs of a lot of stuff that warmer climates get. Seattle is a lot warmer in the winter than we are here. Or I should say that we are a lot colder than Seattle in the winter. For instance, they have a terrible morning glory over there that is almost impossible to get rid of. It would not survive here. Fortuntely. Morning Glories are annuals here.
So, the same with a lot of different things like the slugs.
And unfortunately, that works 2 ways. They have a wonderful blackberry that grows wild over there and it is really tough to grow here. But, like I said it is wild over there and like anything else, wild means too much of it.
Jeanette