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Posted by sdogwood 9 (My Page) on Tue, Aug 24, 04 at 13:52
| Hello all, my large Gardenia has many yellow leaves. Its in full sun and does get water. Does it need a special food? I give it Miracle Grow. Any Suggestions? |
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| Anyone have a link to the "Suicidal Gardenia" thread? |
Nevermind ...
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Here is a link that might be useful: Suicidal Gardenia
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| Suicidal Gardenia is so funny and everyone should read it! Didn't any tips for my plant but I'm in a better mood. Thanks for pointing it out. |
RE: My Gardenia needs help
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| Gardenias sometimes drop their leaves, but could also be a nitrogen deficiency or chlorosis. Nitrogen deficiency the leaves yellow from the tip toward stem and from bottom upwards. If it is chlorosis newer leaves are yellow or the leaves are yellow but the veins turn dark green. I have both problems at various times. I use ironite or fertilizer for acid loving plants. Hope this helps! |
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| The plant needs acid, probably. I read a "memoir" that a man wrote about his two sisters' duties when they were growing up. It entailed emptying the chamber pots. He said that the area where they rinsed out the chamber pots had a gardenia bush growing and that it was the greenest plant with the largest gardenias he had ever seen before or since. He attributed it to the uric acid in the chamber pots' rinse water. |
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| Could also be an iron deficiency. My mother in southern Alabama always had a real pretty gardenia and she never did anything to it. The one at the old home site is still there. I've tried on three occasions to get a gardenia established but this spring I dug up the last one and planted a rose, I gave up. |
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| I would love to offer positive advice, but had killed 6 in the last two years, so I don't think you want me to give you any pointers!! Good LUCK.... |
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- Posted by jim2k mississippi (My Page) on
Wed, Sep 1, 04 at 21:37
| Vergoro yard works well for me,not the kind with weed killer though,I use it 3 or 4 times a year.IT has high Phospherous and some other things that seem to be good for gardenias.But I have heavy clay soil.I would not worry about yellowing to much it's the black that you need worry about.I think I misspelled some thing butyou know what I mean.mayby this will help I hope so Good luck Jim |
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| I have had the same problem. I planted 7 gardenias, and out of those only 3 are really thriving. They are such picky plants and I have done TONS of research on the problem. I discovered that the ones planted near the sidewalk don't do well because something about the cement/limestone "leaches" into the soil and raises the pH (which the gardenias hate). They have to have acidic soil in order to absorb the iron that they need. Every two weeks I treat them with soil acidifier and I spray their leaves with water soluble iron. I even bought a pH meter to monitor the soil. Of course the ones that are doing well are plagued with whiteflies that I have to spray for and remove the sooty mold. Whatever fertilizer you use, make sure that it has sulfur in it to help acidify the soil. |
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