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| My plant is dead. It died a horrible death after looking so beautiful that I bought it a big fancy pot.
I think ignorance is bliss, because until I knew about Southern blight, it never struck my garden in all the years I've been digging the dirt. Now it took one of my favorites. Here is The Razor's Edge (with Moonstruck beside it) in its glory days:
And here it is as of yesterday afternoon.
Out it goes with the garbage. And I've ordered a new The Razor's Edge this morning from Hornbaker, where I got the first one. (Plus a few more to console me for the loss.) I looked for the other Southern blight thread, and it fell off the edge of the world already..... |
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| Oh gads, I sure hope that's the only hosta that gets it. Be sure to give that pot a good soak in bleach water before you re-use it! |
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- Posted by moccasinlanding z9A AL (My Page) on Wed, Aug 22, 12 at 20:05
| Yeah, it is disgusting. I plan to toss it pot and all. It feels bad even posting the photo next to that of a healthy hosta. :/ |
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| So Sad, and of course it would attack a favourite and not just a plain old green with a white edge. Murphy probably has a law about that. Jan |
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| I did not see the little spheres at the rotten end of leaves, but I had 3 hostas with crown rot. It might be of interest here what I did with them. I dug the plants out of the soil, removed all lose leaves, shook off the soil and placed soil and leaves into garbage. I cut out the mushy part of the crown, washed out all soil, gave the plant a 10% bleach bath for 1 hour, rinsed it and planted it into a pot with well draining mix, the crown above the mix. The plants survived and are growing, are getting some fungicide into their water. I also put the upper few inches of soil into the garbage. Bernd |
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- Posted by moccasinlanding z9A AL (My Page) on Sun, Aug 26, 12 at 21:54
| Bernd, when you say some fungicide in their water, just what sort of fungicide are you mixing with the water? |
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| I use Bonide Captan on crown rot which is also recommended for applying on seedlings. Note that I do not have Southern Blight against which you would need what don_r recommended in another thread. Bernd |
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