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Posted by kasia88 (My Page) on Thu, Jun 28, 07 at 8:49
| Hi there!
I need help with my plant. It's pretty new and for now needs to be replanted to a bigger pot. But its leaves are getting something like..boils, some of them are getting white at the edges but those are the largest ones.
What may be the cause?
Thanks
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RE: need help with murraya paniculata
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| It's a very nice and fragrant plant. I thought mine died. But after cutting away the dead branches I saw some sign of growth above the soil line. As I have no experience with this plant, I hope someone on this forum can help you with your concerns. Good luck. Kasie |
RE: need help with murraya paniculata
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| thanks. I mean the new leaves are growing but it's like...on some of them it looks like they are getting boils and look melted..but that's just few |
RE: need help with murraya paniculata
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| Hard to know what you mean by "boils". Could it be scale? Scrape one of the "boils" off and smash it. If there is a sort of dark red liquid (blood), it's a bug. Try wiping the "boils" off with alcohol. |
RE: need help with murraya paniculata
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| no no it's like...a bump on the top but it's a hole from the other side. I don't know how to explain it. It's too small to take a pic |
RE: need help with murraya paniculata
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Blisters perhaps? Sounds very odd to me from the description, and though I have quite a few of them, since I keep many of the "volunteers" and pot them up for future growth, I've never seen a similar problem with mine, and only get some occasional chlorosis with yellowing of the leaves, and perhaps some sun scorch when they're moved outdoors to sunnier digs for the summer. If it's not an insect or disease, perhaps it's a spontaneous mutation of some sort causing the leaves to be deformed? Not to sound too critical, but it seems sometimes finding accurate descriptions for some situations may prove difficult, though to you , what you're saying would adequately describe the situation, it may not be so for someone else, and a photo is the best option for an accurate diagnosis of the problem. Have you tried "macro" , and I assume you have a "digi"? If those bumps are so tiny as to actually be difficult to photograph, even with a "macro" setting , I'd be even more puzzled, as to what's causing that?
Another possibility might be some type of microscopic mite, since they're invisible to the naked eye, and they do cause leaves to grow unaturally, though the damage usually leads to yellowing and shed leaves! |
RE: need help with murraya paniculata
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| could i cut off the affected leaves? |
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| I guess removing affected leaves is a possibility, and I neglected to say that perhaps just watering practices or nutrional problems could explain it as well. Did you say it's also losing most of those leaves eventually or quite quickly? If not and it doesn't seem to be spreading to newer growth , just let it be! Though I've found them tough plants in most cases, and tending to drop leaves , when they don't get enough light, they otherwise seem to do just fine even after losing many leaves and come back. |
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| no it's not loosing leaves |
RE: need help with murraya paniculata
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| If every leaf of the plant is effected you may have more of a serious issue. How many leaves of the whole plant is effected? I am leaning toward pest problem, lets hope I am dead wrong. Maybe you could post the pic of the whole plant so we could at least have a better idea, is there a possibility of doing so? 
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Here is a link that might be useful: Murraya
RE: need help with murraya paniculata
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| no not all leaves. it's like maybe....6? i think it's like 2 branches...and one new is starting to look the same |
RE: need help with murraya paniculata
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| They do that. The leaves also get leathery. Give plenty of water and fertilizer. Mine get yellowish in the winter, and a couple of small ones took a beating in last winter's frost, dying back to looking almost dead. They are pretty tough. Water and fertilizer stimulate lush, soft leaves and flowers. They love water and food and heat and will reward you with a wonderful perfume. In the winter here in Southern California they get a little scraggly looking. They seem to act like live oaks -- the leaves go into conservation mode when water is low. Don't worry about overwatering -- it's hard to get them to rot |
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