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anyone else losing their petunias?
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Posted by creeklocks z6 NY (My Page) on Mon, Jul 19, 04 at 22:03
| This past week all of the flowers on the petunias rotted before they could open. The rest of each plant looks healthy and they have plenty of healthy-looking buds. The soil is pretty clay-y but they're planted in the annual bed which has been composted multiple times. They're lightly mulched, is that the problem? It didn't seem like there was that much rain last week. We're in Ulster County. Did anyone else experience this? |
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RE: anyone else losing their petunias?
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| My petunias are doing great, but mine are also in window boxes and not mulched. We also have gotten a lot of rain in the past week. Check your soil to see if it's dry. Maybe they need to be fed, try some miracle grow. |
RE: anyone else losing their petunias?
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| Mine are doing fine so far but a lot of people I know say they got aphids real bad this year. Maybe that is the problem. Tom |
RE: anyone else losing their petunias?
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| I read that you need to cut back petunias 1/2 way in July. I didn't grow any this year. |
RE: anyone else losing their petunias?
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| Yes, cut them back, they get real leggy if you don't. Tom |
RE: anyone else losing their petunias?
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| I didn't solve the mystery but my plants have recovered anyway. I don't know what else it could have been besides maybe a little extra rain. Next year I'm going to look for a petunia that doesn't get so demolished by rain. I saw once called Rainmaster in the Select Seeds catalogue. And thanks, I did cut them all back this weekend. |
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