Something is eating my Cestrum nocturnum(night blooming jasmine) I live in SW Florida. What can i do or use. I have tried using soap but it does no good.
night blooming jasmine
Mine are bug magnets too. I either use a seaweed spray, or cut them back as well. I've already cut a bunch of them back, but because I want early blooms I've left some, and will spray with the seaweed solution.
Would the bugs be coming out at night (during the day they are in the ground)...like beetles? Sevin Powder shot up under the leaves seem to get rid of the beetles.....Imidocloprid drenched in the soil will kill them...but it can be expensive.... What kind of bugs?
mine are alot of powdery mildew and scales..very difficult to get rid of, or very expensive for the systemic stuff.
How wierd!!! i thought WE were the insect capital of the plant world and the NBJ is one of the few plants never nibbled on at all!!!
Carol
Two most high maintenance bug attracting, disease harboring plants in my garden.
Number 1 Brumansia
Number 2 Night Jasmine
Number 3 Iochroma (funny...they call it mini angel trumpet)
It might become clearer why the "Brug Forrest" is currently under re-landscaping with 20 trees going to new homes, and only 2 remaining in that particular area.
Yes, well brugs are something else!!! If i find them being eaten or sucked or chewed...I generally just cut them way back and the demon goes away. I used to obsess about mites and thrips and....and.... And find they recover really well, on their own. The stuff I cut away I bag up and burn. Letting the bugs (or cats or...?) run their course on one plant really keeps them away from the others!!!
Yes, I've come to the same conclusion. Usually when the hot season starts is the time to cut them down to the ground and they will grow back. Still in my closely quarter jungle ..I had to thin them out, to narrow down the spread of things...
I only dream of the space that you have! Still my trade off is a 5 minute commute to work, and after a record 46.00 to fill up my explorer, I'm looking for a little scooter to ride around town in.
Yup...one more reminder of why I am out here! $46! Wowzers!
The #1 most damaged with ease plant I've ever had-
Bird's Nest Fern-1 snail can defoliate the plant in two days.
RJ, it's nothing for me to pay $70 for gas up here. But my truck also has two tanks. Anytime it's below $50 though I get suspicious. lol.
LA...I know this is off topic, but I have a bird's nest with a lot of brown on the fronds...ever see that? I am thinking too much sun...but it is too large to move!
Would the brown be spores?
Carol....ahhh come on! I'm not THAT dumb! No, these are big patches of brown, sometimes in the middle of the frond, sometimes on the edges. We have been getting some hellacious winds here, so at first I thought it was trauma from being blown all over the place, but then I figured that those in the wild get blown around too, and I've never seen any with these brown patches...maybe sunburn I guess.
Salt burn?
And here I am doing everything in my power to get the brugs started. Everyone has really been quiet about this little bit of news. Ahh well, the beauty is worth a little bit of inconveneince.
Oh! Yes, very possibly salt burn. I'll have to check that possibility out. Thanks Carol.
Christi, quiet about what news? The bugs on brugs? Maybe you won't have that problem, so far, knock wood, I haven't.
Yes the bugs on brugs. It's ok. There is always some draw back to beauty.
Ahem...such as being fluffy. hahahahaha
LOL!
Aloha Softailmike, welcome!
Have you tried using a systemic insecticide on your plant? I try to use as few chemicals as possible, but sometimes there comes a time...
LOL Christi!
Jen
If you can give us a description of the holes the bugs are eating...perhaps we could help with the difference between a beetle nibble and a caterpiller chomp. That would determine what you use... :>). If it is "cats", they will soon become airborne and the problem will stop.
Carol
hahahahahahahahahahhaahhaaaaaaa!!! your too funny Carol...that was a rotflol laugh.
I'm pretty sure I know what they are...in Texas we have little slugs that really have developed a taste for brugs.. Not sure where your keeping the cuttings or plants at, but try and keep them off the ground..and even then they'll find them. Look on the bottom of the containers, make sure no slugs...remove all leafy materials.
If your doing cuttings have you ever considered the bubbler method?
While your all here..I'll post the re-landscaping pictures. I finsished the big stuff this weekend.
first one is a before for contrast
and after..
looking the opposite direction
Oh wow! Having been there and walked this trail....Wow!. what did you do with all those beautiful plants? Oooohhh. But it really looks great. I'm working towards less grass, and less grass, less grass. Sooo beautiful.
Christi
Well, a bunch are in the driveway awaiting a LouC trip, 2 car loads to Jeanne, 1 truck load to my friend Margaret..and there is at least another truck load after I bring yours!
That little are will be popping out with lushness in a couple weeks..
I hope to enlist your help with rearranging my garden. It is really a mish-mash. I don't mean your labor, just your expertise.
I don't mind helping either. It's fun. My garden will always be in a state of re-design.
Mine is more in the area of "mess". Very schizophrenic. A little Texas native, a little tropical, a lot of "ooow I like that", some nostalgic, my mother had that, my grandmother had that....you wouldn't believe it. Add to the fact I have been 3/4 of my life...
You just described my garden!
when am I coming up again in April? I need to mark it on the calendar
The RU is April 19th. I would like you to be here several days. Before or after or before AND after. We will need to make appt. with PlacenciaRita.
okay...I'll try for friday and monday off around then. Matter of fact I'll put in for the days now
yay!
Hey Rj, you need to come up here too!!! LOL
I could...I should...I think I might even have some relatives near KC, exactly where I'm not sure. I just remember her telling me I could fly into KC.
Yep, KCI airport. Then another hour southeast from there to here. lol. KCI is on the very outer fringes of northern KC.
Randy...aren't those slugs just the peskiest!!! We have slugs, then we have a pseudo-snail (like a slug with a funny kinda shell on its' back - and it carries a nasty illness) and then we have the African Moon Snail which can be HUGE and eats EVERYthing. LOVES the brugs and often in the morning we pick off a 'cluster' of them from the brugs or sometimes a palm frond. The NBJ seems to be fairly immune - so far - :>)
Yes..they are little ninja slugs...very seldom see them, and they come out munching at night...and yes we have the snails too...only something very interesting has happened. I use to have thousands of snails everywhere that have stripes on the shells..then they started disappearing, and a new snail appeared that has a cone shape, or unicorn horn type shell. I've been told that the former preyed on the other snails...and I mean..I use to grab hand full after hand full from the front flower beds and toss them in the street for the birds...none, zip, nada anymore...I do see the spiral snails occasionally on the plants.