The top leaves curl in on themselves. Not the way they normally grow.
Could be some environmental cause, disease or pest.

Any ideas?

The plants are a couple of inches tall, they are planted in good soil, and get watered regularly and fertilized at half-strength occassinally.

thanks,
ellen

I will go today and see if I see any mites or aphids.

Yes I'm sure they get enough water, I thot maybe TOO much water, bec. the only reference I found online to curling leaves in Salvia was one to 'too much water'.
But then they wd all have that problem.

I'll post back if I see any insects on them.

thanks.

I still haven't planted out most of my Salvia Lady in Red and Coral Nymph. Ones in ground are just sitting there.

They take off so fast once it warms up I'm not worried.

The ones I potted up to 5" plastic pots are much larger and stronger than those in 3" Cow Pots which are water hogs and roots don't penetrate as promised.

I didn't know TMV was a problem with Salvia! I just read something about it when trying to figure out how to grow Tomatoes for the first time. They warned about smokers touching certain vegetable plants and TMV.

Being a smoker (bad, I know) I'll be using my tub of bleach/water solution I keep on the patio before I touch Salvia in addition to washing my hands/tools for cleaning off dirt, possible bacteria/viruses and while working on roses.

The first couple weeks of rain were okay on plants but they're not getting a chance to dry out by now with more rain.

I figure I'm lucky when it rains after I plant things out because I don't have to lug around watering cans for a few days.

There seems to be a lot of aphids this year. They've even been landing on my arms which never happened before. I can give roses hard water spray in morning but not new little plants.

Weather's been so fritzy there haven't even been bees or Cabbage Whites on Salvia Victoria, Caradonna or May Night this year while they mobbed them last year.

Guess patience with Mother Nature, which we can't control, is in order.