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Mon, Aug 13, 12 at 14:57
| Help - some kind of black crud on leaves and spreading- what is it and how do I deal with it?
Thanks John |
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| Indoors or outdoors? In a pot or the ground? What does the rest of the plant look like? A guess: Sooty mold (not a disease) which is growing on honeydew (sticky stuff) excreted by insects on the leaves above those. |
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- Posted by fiedlermeister 04/05 (My Page) on Mon, Aug 13, 12 at 16:07
| Thanks for responding- it's in a large pot- outside for the summer but spends Maine winters indoors. When it was inside it did have some scale but they seem to disappear when it's outside- and this has been true in the past. Last fall I cut it back to a small leafless stub ( it had been about 4 ft. tall and quite bushy) because of the black stuff. I was afraid I killed it but once inside it regrew almost to it's original size---and the scale returned. Solution??? |
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