This is an example of what I found yesterday evening. Seven of my morning glories look like this or worse. I am still in shock. They had been watered in the morning. They are in a morning sun evening shade area. I don't know what went wrong. Too much sun? Too much heat? Did the 13-13-13 do this?
Dorothy
There is one among many possibilities. Check the base. Is the root blackened and withered? Do you have a cat? If the cat pees in the pot this picture looks just like what happens.
Another possibility is a bug attack like aphids or mites. Karen
If a cat didn`t pee in the pot and kill the root it looks like it has potential to recover. Karen
When did you fertilize? The day before? usually if it is the fertilizer, you will see this happen within a few hours.. if it was too strong of a mixture.. you would have to pour water over the root sections and "rinse the roots" to get some of the mixture off. They may recover, but if it has been days, I don't know if they will.
I occasionally overdo on the bloombooster sometimes, but I keep a watch all day long to see if anything is wrong.. (it took me a couple of hard lessons to learn this) so I know how you feel.
I fertilized on Monday with a slow release granular. This was a first on these but I use it on my shrubs all the time. I wonder if I have watered them too much because of the wilting that happens everyday no matter what. I don't have a cat so that can't be it. I wish I knew. Some of them still have life in the stem but leaves are totalled.
could be sunburn, that will fry them to a crisp too.
I bet your right, Gourd. The sun might have fried them. They really are tender vines if they weren't started outdoors in the late Spring/Summer months.
It almost looks like weed killer. You have my sympathy.
I don't know what it is. The only common link is the fertilizer. 2 more that get very little sun morning sun bit the dust this morning. They were my healthiest looking and best bloomers. I am done with JMGs until next spring.
Dorothy
Looks like the type of sunburn that occurs when a plant that has been raised indoors and / or in a place that does not receive full intensity sun >and has recently received direct sun full blast = sunburn...
Plants raised in less direct sun must be slowly acclimated to full direct sun or they will get a severe frying by the ultraviolet rays ...they need to develop a tan just like humans...
I use water resevoirs / basins at the bottom of containers >especially when it is very hot and the sun is intense as the the containers can dry out like a rock in a very short period of time...the roots in containers can get fried because the containers can potentially get the roots much hotter than the roots which receive some protection from being in the ground...
TTY,...
Ron
Ron, thanks. I started these seeds outdoors in peat pots on my patio and transplanted into larger pots but they were in the same area where they were "born". This spot does get morning sun but the shade does not hit until about 2pm. It has been about 90 here but 98 with the heat index so maybe that was just too much heat.
Dorothy
The leaves are partially browned towards the back of the leaves,but it looks like most of the leaf turned to a crisp in the green state...
I also try to stay away from bare unshielded metal as the metal can heat up enough to cause burns...
Did the containers dry out completely while the sun was intense(?)...if not I'd say it may have been the combo of the sun and the fertilizer...
TTY,...
Ron
Ron, they did not dry out. I have been accused of paying too much attention to them so I know I would not let that happen. Thanks for the information. I will know better for next year.
Dorothy
