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Posted by FrangipaniAz z10 Az (My Page) on Fri, Jun 24, 05 at 22:34
Ok everyone... I need help... So far my geranium has lasted through our hot Phoenix summer, but now it is wilting... the soil is wet and the leaves are totally flaccid, no umph in them at all... what do I do??? I don't want it to die..
Brittany |
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RE: Wilting
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Hi Brittany,
Do you have a pelargonium rather than a Geranium?
Is your plant in a container or in the ground? If your plant is in a container make sure that the container can drain properly as pelargoniums do not like a wet root run. If the plant is in soil you can gently fork over the soil to help aereate the soil. There is also the possiblity that some pest (vine weevil) may have attacked the roots. You can try and knock the plant out of its container and examine the root system for the presence of grubs, similarly you can lift the plant and examine the root system. |
RE: Wilting
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| Also provide some afternoon shade during the heat of the day. My pelargoniums get all wimpy, wilty looking when they get too hot. |
RE: Wilting
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Thanks... mine were looking wilty with too much sun (Phx can get very hot) but they would recover with water... It's a container plant and it happened quite suddenly, I watered it and the next day it was still wet and the next day as well... I know geraniums aren't supposed to summer over in az but I was hoping that it would given the fact that summer's half over and our "rainy" season is coming and that it is given filtered sun and that it is in a container... oh well... any more suggestions would be great...
Brittany
P.S. It's a geranium... |
RE: Wilting
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| Frangipani, is it truly a geranium? Check the FAQs and read about the naming mix-up. If it is the plant commonly sold as an annual plant, grown in containers, it's probably a pelargonium. But that's OK, both plants get discussed in this forum ;-) And both are great plants. If it's the pelargonium, the plant won't recover because of the watering, but because it got some heat relief, maybe from shade or sun went down, whatever. I've had pellies get overwatered (I bring about 90 to the county fair for decoration around our 4-H buildings,) by well-meaning friends, when the trouble was the heat. So, the pellies were overwatered, and the plants just got all the more wilty. The cure, move them to a cooler site, and cut back on the water. You will get the best results if you can provide some cooling shade during your hottest part of the day. |
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