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| I'll post some pictures below, but I'm fairly sure this is a fungal infection. I've done some research on it, and it's a bit confusing. I've read to pick off the infected leaves, which I've done, but it didn't help, and now most all of the leaves are infected. Is there something else I can do?
It infects the leaves from the bottom up. It is all these little black dots and then the leaves yellow and then brown, shrivel and die.
I'm planning on building the planter boxes for this today. Thanks in advance, HT |
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- Posted by Donna.in.Sask 2b (My Page) on Fri, Jun 15, 12 at 12:12
| I guess you can spray with an anti-fungal and take off the affected leaves, make sure you do cleanup of leaves in the Fall. I quit growing phlox in my garden - it was borderline hardy and was a magnet for diseases. You need to have proper air circulation to prevent mildew, etc. There are some varieties that are a bit more resistant. |
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- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Fri, Jun 15, 12 at 12:49
| why is that HUGE plant.. in that tiny pot??? and notice that ALL the newer leaves are not affected ... plant it .. even if you have to move it in fall to a permanent place ... you are torturing the heck out of it .. and in stressing it so.. it becomes attack-able.. by all kinds of problems.. at a min.. put it in a one gallon pot.. and keep it in shade.. until sept.. so it has some new soil.. and then plant it ... i am usually very leery of planting mid june thru august.. as i usually forget.. and end up forgetting to water a few hundred degree days in a row ... hence potting.. and 'holding over' until the next good planting season ... i guess i am saying.. you have root problems ... ken |
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| Yeah that is the pot it came in. It will be planted today, but I've left it in there because I was trying to rid it of the disease before I transplant it (figured it might stress it out and kill it if it's already sick). Do you think transplanting it will be enough? Or will I need antifungal as well? |
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