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Wed, May 21, 14 at 22:07
| Hi y'all, I planted romanesco broccoli out in april, with one grown indoors since february and 6 others from seed. Obviously the grown indoors one dwarfs the others at a foot tall with about 8 inch long leaves (is that small/stunted?) and has remained that size for about a month. The other ones are still tiny at about 4 inches high. The big one was small when planted so I don't think there's any inhibitory effect from contaminant residue, but I don't know why they're not growing anymore. Also, the big one has leaves that developed a very interesting shade of royal purple and 1 brown leaf on older leaves and some entirely yellow ones in the middle. However, the green leaves are pretty green and healthy looking. The tiny broccolli's don't have purple or brown leaves but have yellow leaves. We've had a week or two of intense 70~80 degree daytime weather and they're out in full sun, but its died back to the 60's. I've been watering with miracle gro so it shouldn't have problems with nitrogen, and the soil is loaded with magnesium, so I'm guessing boron deficiency. Are there any other causes? Thanks! |
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- Posted by Brandon_the_Random none (My Page) on Thu, May 22, 14 at 14:05
| Yeah, will do. I'm away from home until the weekend. |
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| In our area, the leaves will turn color like that if they've been attacked by root maggots. Can you tease away some of the soil from the base of the plant and see if you've had damage to the stem and roots? |
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- Posted by Brandon_the_Random none (My Page) on Fri, May 30, 14 at 7:10
| Sorry, the purple,red, yellow leaves have shriveled up and dropped but the leaves are still tiny at about palm wide and hand long. I forgot to take pictures, but there doesn't seem to be any holes in the stem(which is about a cm thick) although there are tiny holes scattered on the leaves. |
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