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Fuschia 'rust' killing my favorites
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Posted by Gina_w CA-10 (My Page) on Wed, Aug 17, 05 at 15:56
| Well, looks like I've got a full-blown case of "rust". I read about the available methods to try and treat it, but I am not an expert, and I don't like to bother with strong chemicals, so I think I am just going to do a "soft-pruning" - pruning down to the first blooming nodes, and any remaining infected foliage this coming weekend and see what happens. Crapp!
It's one of the scourges of the fuschia world, from what I read. It's a fungal infection. maybe I'll swap down the remaining plant with some listerine - a trick that works on a similar fungus on orchids that I had success with in the past.
I'll update you guys when I have something to update.
Sniff, sniff :-( |
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RE: Fuschia 'rust' killing my favorites
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| So sorry to hear that Gina, I get it sometimes on some garden plants if we've had several dry, hot spells during the summer. Main thing is to gather up all the affected flowers and foliage and destroy it, try not to touch unaffected plants and don't put affected flowers and foliage on a compost heap, other wise you'll spread it. I must admit I do use a fungicide on the plants and surrounding soil. Kath :) |
RE: Fuschia 'rust' killing my favorites
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| Just lurking on the fuschia forum...but got the same thing on my plummies. Someone at another plummie site suggest spraying both sides of the leaves with murphy's oil soap (2 T to one gallon) mixed with alcohol (1T)...so far seems to be working! But I'll let you know too! PS another version was 1T dish liquid, 1 T cooking or mineral oil, 1 T alchol. |
RE: Fuschia 'rust' killing my favorites
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| Well, my plants are still alive. I bought and used some anti-fungal spray that addressed rust. The plants continued to bloom so I couldn't bring myself to prune yet. Even though the leaves are all - well, rusty! They've finally stopped blooming so I think now will be a good tme to prune them back for the winter (the winter we have here anyway), and then see how they grow back in the spring. |
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