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Help with poor mistreated fuchsia!
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Posted by drevalvo 5 (My Page) on Tue, Apr 17, 07 at 11:01
| Morning all...
I have a dear friend with a big heart and a black thumb. She saw some fuchsia at Lowes, fell in love, and brought them home...Lowe's tag said FULL SUN, so that's where she planted them...
I was over last night and the poor fried up little things were begging for attention, so, with her permission, I un-planted them, and took them home...any tips, aside from not leaving them in full sun, for bringing these boys back from the brink?
thanks in advance!
Dorothy |
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RE: Help with poor mistreated fuchsia!
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| Not much you can do but wait it out. Clip off anything that's crisped. The buds with the highest probability of having survived will be the ones lowest on the branches. If all else fails there might be some below soil level (and as you probably know Fuchsias have remarkable regenerative powers if only you have a few live buds. I have had badly frozen split wood recover from a few surviving buds). Try giving them non-chlorinated water so as not to burn the roots. You might try a drop of dishwashing liquid (a surfactant) and a drop of superthrive. That's too bad. A lot of the big retail operations assume that anything that blooms needs "full sun"--even if it's a Fuchsia, Begonia, Impatiens, Gesneriad, etc. Are you in USDA zone 5? Or is that Sunset Magazine zone 5? I should think still a bit cold in USDA 5 for Fuchsias, especially this year. Good luck and I hope it recovers. |
RE: Help with poor mistreated fuchsia!
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| Thanks for your advice! I am in USDA 5, and I thought it was still a little chilly for Fuchsias too, but they're everywhere you look this year! I'm going to go try to find some superthrive at lunch today, and try and baby them back! I hadn't trimmed them back yet, since I've never nursed one back from the brink before, and didn't want to do anything harsh! I'll let you know if it works! Dorothy |
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