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Sick Marigolds

Posted by sherwood_botsford 3a (My Page) on
Wed, Apr 22, 09 at 13:21

I've started a few flats of french marigolds every year without a problem. This year a lot of them are showing:
* dark speckles -- tiny maybe 1/32" across (under 1 mm)
* purple black edges on some leaves.
* slightly darker green than unaffected plants.

On another forum someone suggested that my pH was too low, and that I had iron toxicity. I've since checked that, and the water dripping from a freshly watered pot runs 7.4.

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RE: Sick Marigolds

  • Posted by izhar Karachi, Pakistan/ 1 (My Page) on
    Thu, May 6, 10 at 2:57

are the affected plants growing with same vigor as of unaffected ones?? because i have seen such kind of symptoms in mass planted seedlings, but as soon as we separate and transfer them to individual pot or in ground they just do fine..

Cheers~

Izhar


 
 

 

 


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