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Debbie2007 Port Vincent, LA(Zone 8b) Aug 29, 2007

My Pentas were doing so beautifully. Then came the bees. :) Thankyou God for this forum so if I ask a totally dumb question, ya'll can smile to yourself and help me. OK. As I watched and enjoyed the bees going from bloom to bloom, sadly, my pentas are disappearing. Do the bees have anything to do with that or not? Also, the leaves on my shorter pink ones are turning yellow as you can see. But the bigger whites are not. So, a few suggestions please. I read the Plantfiles and looked at the beautiful pictures that mine used to look like, but no one addressed my questions. Any ideas. Thanks

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glendalekid Tuscaloosa, AL(Zone 7b) Aug 29, 2007

I've never grown pentas so don't know what the problem could be with them, but the bees wouldn't have anything to do with it. They just pollinate the flowers but don't harm the plants.

Karen

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dobra1629 Houma, LA Aug 29, 2007

I planted my pentas in May and they look like shrubs now. I do feed them with Miracle Grow every 2 weeks. I used the Bloom Booster kind.

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Debbie2007 Port Vincent, LA(Zone 8b) Aug 29, 2007

Thanks Dobra1629. Actually I planted them in Miracle Gro Potting Soil. Mine haven't been planted that long so I'll just wait and watch. We are only a few hours away from each other, experiencing the same weather(ThankGod for the rain today), so we will see. I will be in Houma on Friday installing drapery:). Small world.

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ecrane3 Dublin, CA(Zone 9a) Aug 30, 2007

I'd check your watering, yellowing leaves are often a sign of either underwatering or overwatering (sometimes it's hard to tell the difference from the way the plants look)

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WeeNel Ayrshire Scotland, United Kingdom Sep 01, 2007

From the picture you sent, you seem to get the flowers then they drop off as you have some open and laying on your soil, none look dead, brown or shriveled so, for my bet, something is eating the plants, look for earwigs, cant see any leaf bites so that to me rules out slugs/snails etc, dont know about your area, but my petunias are about reaching the end of their flowering season now as they have flowered their heads of all summer even in our dull wet cooler summer days, so maybe they need a feed to see them through the last of the season as they will have used up a lot of the nutrients in the soil by now, you mentioned also that you have had lack of rain and at last it has come, maybe the plants just got a wee bit too thrashed too much with the sudden rainfall, the foliage looks healthy to me so I would look out for earwigs as this year globally, there has been an explosion of these and you need to set traps for these, best time to look is just as it gets dark as they are night feeders. Good luck, WeeNel.

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