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Posted by lafleuriste 5 western NY (My Page) on Wed, Apr 29, 09 at 20:16
| I started moonflowers from seed in February, to be planted in containers with bamboo supports. One container with two seedlings is doing really well - the seedlings are getting leafy and green and climbing heavenwards. In the other pot, however, the seedlings look all chewed up and spotty and have holes in them, although they are still growing and climbing.
I've already uprooted the diseased-looking moonflower seedlings from the second pot. I have other healthy green (backup) seedlings that I could replace them with.
My question is, should I completely replace the soil that the other seedlings were growing in, before potting the backup moonflower vine seedlings in the "bad" pot? That's what baffles me about the two pots: I used the same potting medium for both.
Thanks,
lafleuriste |
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| Are you sure it wasn't bugs? Unless they looked sick I would not have pulled them up. I could be it isn't the soil after all but a few hungry bugs or caterpillars. |
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| Whe have had Moonflowers in front of our house for the second year now. I cannot find information that the tomato worm likes anything but tomato plants, but last year we pulled quite a few tomato worms of all sizes off the plants. This year I have pulled/knocked off a few. A friend a couple of blocks away-gave me the seeds--said that for the first time he had the worms on his plants also. He has quite a permanent stand. They seem to be perennial in Middle Tennessee. Check to see if the Wolf moth is laying eggs and little tomato worms are munching away. |
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