please help my brugs

I fell in love with these beauties many years ago while leafing through a white flower farm catalog. Imagine my exalted good fortune to find a rooted cutting at a local garden club plant sale for $1 of Ecuador Pink. I have never had real flush,but do get occaisonal blooms. I have yet created many cuttings to trade or give away. I now have four different varieties grown in pots. After wintering over in the house, and appropriately hardeing off to outisde,I was very excited to see numerous buds on all plants. Then all buds dropped off, and the leaves turned a mottled yellow and green. Please see posted pic.

I have since moved to a place where they get full sun until 3 PM and have been faithful to water and fertilize. I still see a few of these weird leaf patterns, but overall they are happier.

Please advise what I can do to stop this.

Thanks.

have you taken a hand lens..and looked at the undersides of the leaves for mites.. they will often leave the mottled look to the leaves..
There are some nutrient issues that will also account for that look...what and how often do you feed..
The other item is water..are the plants well drained..what kind of soil are in the pots.. is there a largesaucer under the pots...always holding a bunch of water ..the thin stems / mottled leaves indicate , to me , an inbalance of light / water / food..
you should be seeing a much more robust plant there.. how long have they been in that sunnier spot..

OH.. another item at play here.. you said appropriately hardeing off to outisde,.. couldyou explain just what this was and for how longit went on...
The leaves you brought out and hardened.. were inside developed.. and were usedto the light intencity there.. humidity existant inside.. the hardening off gets the plant usedtothenewhumidity.. and light levels.. making the transition slower and the abruptness not a shock.. these leaves will indeed be replaced with new life.. set up and used to the higher light outside.. the old leaves will eventually fall ..replaced by new growth... some of your coloration and distress in the leaves perhaps is just this tendency for the plant to replace it's old leaves..
answers to the questions asked are helpful in determning the extent of eachs influence to their health.. in as much as can be discovered online.. and through one picture.. aclose up at that the age of the plant..cutting or seedling.. or just a two
[ or more ] year old over wintered inside.. and a picture of the entire plant.. perhaps showing it's location outside..oh did Imention soil .. and water analysis.. just kidding onthe last two... although I'm sure it would be helpful..

haven't had a chance to take a larger pic of the whole thing. I have 4 different cultivars (Ecuador Pink, NHDP, Solid Gold and another double that i forgot its name) and all four were showing the same signs. Thanks for your input. The hardening off was over three weeks. Moving in and out during day and night for first week. In a shadier/filtered light for second week (inside were in a light window, but no direct sun) and the third week in a sunnier, but still protected by wind.

currently I feed once a week a combo of compost tea and urea. Last year this generated LOTS of growth. While I was hardening off, I didn't feed near as much. I didn't want to jump start them too fast while acclimating to outside temps and humidity. they get water everyday as they are dry every morning. No saucer, in potting soil with no moisture extras, so it drains quite well.

I did look and should have mentioned first that I did inspect for mites. none seen.

I wonder if the hardening off period was jsut too long for them and they were ready to GROW!

Thanks so much for your input.

lizzy

now that they are in their outside "home" and getting fed regularly, they are perking up quite a bit. I may even see a real flush, as opposed to one or two bloms.

might be what we call inch worms eating on it too. the one i had last year them little green worms thought it was a buffet

i found an inch worm on one of mine yesterday

none of those. we do usually get those in May and they do like the tree that I was keeping them under, but I really think that GordonHawk nailed it with nutrient/sun/water ratio.

thanks for the input.

Inch worms attacked some of my roses this year! Haven't noticed any on the brugs yet (crossing fingers).

Good info here. What liquid fertilizer does everyone use?

the recipie is amazing ! what a difference
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