Now along with 3 buds on Golden Lady I have 1 bud on Sauv. Yellow Gold, and 1 on Double white.I didn't know I would get this excited.
Doris
Getting Better
LOL Doris. Good for you!! More and more will come!!
Congrats Doris. If you get this excited about buds, imagine what it will be like when they open.....LOL!
You two have no idea how excited I got when I went out to inspect my plants, as I do every morning. how crazy can we get *LOL*
Doris
Me too, Doris. I have been having my tea outside lately in my secret chair. I sit for 1 minute then I am up and walking around and looking. LOL.
LOL Doris..how crazy can we get??...it amazes me almost everyday. Add me to the list of crazies. I get up every morning at 6:30, get dressed and before leaving for work - go outside with my coffee in hand to inspect every plant -- peek under all the leaves looking for crawly varmits, stop to touch and talk to the ones that look like are getting close to blooming. and..yes, I DO talk to them! I swear they hear me and appreciate the encouraging words....LOL
Diane Krny
Congrats, Doris. You're going to love them.
Congratulations Doris, I just love your excitement. I do the same as the rest of you. I get up , get my coffee and do my walk of the yard , checking every plant for buds or bloom or insects, then go to the greenhouse and do the same thing to all my hoya's.
Then I start the rest of my day.
Congrats Doris. I remember my first brugs blooms and the excitement. Heck I still get excited for first blooms on new brugs.
This is Golden Lady today
What is causing the leaves to turn orange, and yellow on a lot of my Brugs. I water every three days, and use MG once a week
Gosh Doris, GL is sure taking her time!!
Have you checked for spidermites? How I hate them.
Yes kell I checked very carefully. no bugs at all
I have no clue then Doris. When mine start to look like that, they have spider mites that I missed.
Yellowing leaves usually have something to do with water, too much or too little. Though general yellowing can be from lack of iron. My Charles Grimaldi does that all the time. I give it a dose of iron and it greens up. Are they falling off after they turn yellow?
no I end up taking them off, the rest of the leaves are fine.
This is another one, the rest of the plant is doing great, maybe they need more water, we are desperate for rain, Farmers are real worried about the corn crop.
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Great thread. I am getting yellowing too and I think it is lack of Iron...found some...off I go tomorrow. My brugs get more attention than my dogs!!!!!
Carol
I have some brugs that look like that. They are in pots.
They were growing fine with beautiful dark green leaves and I didn't get out early enough to water them and they got way to dry and their leaves got dull and yellow. That was about a week ago, some of the leaves are starting to green back up again.
So I think it may be stress is the cause. I have to water 3 times a day when it is real hot and sunny here. If I don't my potted plants look terrible.
Connie
Watering 3 times a day, true love Connie!! There are not enough daylight hours for me to water all my brugs 3 times a day. LOL Seriously!
Well Doris, those leaves really look like speckled mite leaves to me. Hard to tell for sure looking just at a picture. Feel the back of the leaf. Does it feel gritty? Sometimes I can't see mites but the look of the leaf alerts me and I rub the back of the leaf. You can feel the mites. If you are only having problems with a few leaves, it could be the natural cycle of the leaf.
You all probably know this, but this is what I have discovered over time.
If you let a brug dry out too much, in a day or 2, the older leaves yellow and drop. It is natures way to try to save the plant. It gets rid of the bigger leaves that need more water. The more distressed it was, the more leaves yellow and drop.
If your plant needs iron, there is a general yellowing of the leaves, though the veins usually stay greener than the rest of the leaf at least at first. . Potted plants esp need more fertilizer and add ins. Nutrients get washed out quickly and the roots are limited in their food quest to what you give it for they can't grow and search out goodies. A good dose of nitrogen too can green up leaves.
Too much water also can yellow leaves. If the new growth leaves turn yellow you can be in trouble. You do not want to lose those. Check the roots for rot.
Also with brugs, they continuously drop older leaves and make new ones. That is one of the more positive things about them. They constantly renew. It is also a pain for they need frequent grooming. Here, where I live, lot of people do not want a brug in their yard. They consider them a trash plant. Too messy and wild. Always dropping leaves and flowers. I can't give them away to my neighbors. I have tried. LOL
OK I checked, the leaves are smooth, there is no fine webbing, and on a couple of plants the big leaves are OK but the new little leaves are yellow, now I am wondering if the farmers spraying can be causing this, sometimes you can tell they are spraying by the smell even though I am in town it is only a couple of minutes from the country
Doris, I had a brug sprayed by a crop duster last year and it defoliated the brug, every single leaf, but it came back bigger than ever...
well Golden Lady is really taking her time, I took this last night.
I also found who is eating holes in my leaves.
Good for you Doris, hit 'em with double barrels!!!