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| I'm going to give them one more try because I love them but I grow them from seed and they are great till I plant them. They always start looking like something's eating them-kinda webby maybe. |
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- Posted by dowlinggram 3 (My Page) on Sat, Mar 2, 13 at 21:12
| Do the leaves have white spots? That webby reference makes me think it's spider mites. If the leaves have white spots like something has been sucking the juices of the plant that would confirm it You can spray them with neem oil spray getting the undersides of the leaves and when you water apray the plant too with a fairly forceful spray but not enough to harm the plant. Again get the undersides of the leaves. You can never kill them all but you can control them. Spider mites like it hot and dry and hate cold and wet so maybe if you make it uncomfortable for them they will move on. |
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- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Sun, Mar 3, 13 at 9:36
| not much info here ... nor pix ... bugs attack stressed plants ... i would ask how you harden them off from indoors [presuming that is where you start the seed] .. what they are grown in.. as in pots.. flats.. etc ... how you harden them off to the outdoors... how you plant them ... and when the webby things actually show up.. is this early summer.. late summer.. fall ... etc ... and if it happens again.. get a picture!!!! otherwise.. we are just guessing ... ken |
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| ken is right...we need a good picture and some more information. |
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- Posted by purpleinopp 8b AL (My Page) on Thu, Mar 7, 13 at 10:23
| It's probably caterpillars of cabbage moths or something similar. They can be very hard to spot, and are often on the bottom of a leaf, a common Coleus muncher. Just toss them into the yard - the cats, not the Coleus! |
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