I grew this brug from seeds I bought off of ebay. supposed to be some kind of double cross. 2 of the five sprouted and have remained pale like this while 3 grew normally. i was hoping someone else has some knowledge or experience with this. i haven't went to any extremes to snap them out of it yet just epsom salts. Any advise would be appreciated as if they are a lost cause I would rather yank them up and plant other brugs in there place due to my limited available space to plant brugs.
Gosh, you would think if they were planted in the ground that nutrients wouldn't be a problem. I've never seen on that was so all over pale like yours. Hope you find an answer, but makes one wonder if it is in the genes, too. I actually kind of like the pale look. LOL!
yeah me too. if you could get the brow spots off, they would be beautifully varigated leaves!
lol the brown spots are organic fertilizer stuck to the leaves I am sur it is washed off by now as it has rained almost every day here all spring.
ok lol well then, i guess maybe it could very well be varigation. if it is, at the end of the season, i'll have to trade w/ u someting for some cutings!
Whatever you do Ted, do not toss it. It would be so cool if that is the normal color. How the color lightens on some of the leaves reminds me of an akebono clivia. The leaves are similar in coloring.
Organic fertilizer can be slow acting or weak I have discovered for myslef. Just to test it, I would foliar feed it with either liquid iron in weak solution or a high nitrogen fertilizer that has good minors. If that doesn't green it up, it maybe genetic. That would be so cool!
Lime is getting to be the hot new color in foliage plants too. Here is a new dracaena that is called Lime Light that I have been seeing all over this month. It is a beauty! You could start a new fad in brugs, Ted.
Ted, it could be zinc or maganese defiency. Also iron defiency begin with the upper leaves, but here the veins are dark green. I think that it was ZZ that told me that pH level can vary much even inside a squaremeter. It is probably just the pH that is too high. Good that you did not pull them.
Tonny
I will check the ph again. But I have checked it both when they were seedlings and when I planted them outside. These seedlings emerged this color and I assumed they would die like most albino plants. though they grow slower than theyre sisters there must be unough chlorophyl to keep them alive.I think I will get a variety of micronutrients and supply them with enough to do the job they just puzzle me. epsom salt does darken them a little.
I have a few that look the same.
One more.
I had several seedlings also come up like this. The older leaves seem to turn green over time but the new leaves are always very pale.
This message was edited Jun 21, 2007 1:11 PM
I was going to suggest taking one out and growing it in a pot, but then I looked at Caren's plants and noticed they are in a pot. I would try the foliar feeding early in the morning or late in the afternoon to avoid any leaf damage.
I encountered the same problem with a few of my seedlings. The seedlings started out yellow and when I moved them up to 4" pots they stayed yellow even though all the other seedlings were a deep green. All the seedlings were planted in the same commercial potting soil and were fed the same.
When I bumped them up to a 3 gallon pot nothing changed. I checked the PH and it was fine. I even swapped pots with another seedling just to see if it made a difference and it did not.
I applied some Ironite to this plant and it greened up slightly but it is still yellow compared to all the others.
I noticed the problem seemed to be isolated to some european seeds I obtained on eBay.
Fred
I agree with Brugie and Fred. It seems likely to be in the genes and is isolated to european seeds obtained on eBay.
I think Im going to stop trying to fix it and just go with it.
Caren
Fred, I think your plant looks pretty cool. Variety is the spice of life. LOL!
I just ran out to take this pic. It is a glorious day in my neighborhood! Here are some of my akebono clivia seedlings. The coloration so reminds me of lots of the pictures here of your fun colored brugs!
