Some of my brugs there leaves are getting real crisp and shivering up and falling off. Am I over feeding, under feeding, using the wrong type of fertilizer or does any one know what is happening. Last week I did feed with some miracle grow 30-30-30. Was this to much for them. I do have some 20-20-20, then I have the kind I use on my hibiscus that has a very low middle number. I NEED some help. These are the ones mostly in pots, not the ones planted in the ground.
What am I doing wrong.
I think you need to flush the pots with water. 30-30-30 may have burned them. Run some slow running water and flush each pot you fertilized. Do this several time so it can hopefuly remove what ever is remaining in the pot. Don't fertilize until you see some new leaf growth. They should recover. Then switch to the 20-20-20.
This is what I would do to them. I am not an expert but I think your 30-30-30 is the culpret.
Kin
I am on my way outside to do just what you said. Thanks Kin, I had the bags of both the 30-30-30 and 20-20-20 laying there and picked up the wrong one. After I picked it up and was dumping it into the feeder I didn't check to see which one I had used and just started feeding.
Thanks
Linda
I sure have!! And what a sick feeling after!! I have done it with that rose fertilizer and systemic insecticide. I then I quick go out and scoop out the top of the soil when I put it and then I flush. I have even taken the root ball out if its pot and placed it in a big tub of water and swished it around to get rid of the dirt and then repot it.
Good luck Linda!!
I thought these brugs would take as much fert as you cared to throw at them?
However - fertilizing a dry pot is definitely a way to burn the roots of anything. So if it was really due for watering (basically dry) and you put the high-test juice on it you'd end up with the same thing.
I am very careful now Blaine to water the brugs the day before I use the rose stuff. I learned my lesson well even if it took me a few times of burning!! LOL
I find that it can be deadly in pots. In the ground I have never burned anything with it.
How do I take a cutting from an established plant and how do I root it?
I learned the 'water WELL, prior to ANY chemical' lesson this spring. I've had 8 or 10 brugs bloom but that might do it for me this growing season because I badly burned my brugs and 'blew out the tops', don't know what else to call it because the leaves on some top knots turned hard, then bronze, then fell off. A very stupid move, but I thought I had watered well enough. Oh, well, a lesson I will NEVER forget!!!!!