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| Hi,
I am very new with aquatics. I don't have fish in my pond, and I've never had plants in there till last week when I planted some hardy lilies. After one week, most of the leaves on one of the lilies are heavily skeletonized, although it's sending up plenty of new shoots. On another lily, one of the leaves is similarly skeletonized. The third lily seems fine. The pond has some turbulence due to a waterfall but they're not in a very turbulent part of it. It receives full sun for about 4 hours and then partially filtered sunlight (through the forest canopy) the rest of the day. However, we've hit a cloudy spell here in Georgia, so the sun hasn't been out much at all lately. Any idea why this is happening, or whether this is normal? Thanks for any thoughts. Brian |
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- Posted by sleeplessinftwayne z4-5 IND (My Page) on Fri, Apr 22, 11 at 16:14
| About the only thing that could cause it would be an insect pest. Turn one of the leaves over to see what might be hiding. |
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- Posted by catherinet z5 (My Page) on Fri, Apr 22, 11 at 18:41
| snails? |
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| Thanks all - I checked again but didn't see anything on the leaves, stalks, or plants, but maybe I missed something. It looks like the same type of skeletonizing damage that Japanese beetles do to rose bushes. It's almost like the leaves are nearly dissolving at a uniform rate across the entire surface of the leaf... a very fine, evenly distributed skeletonization. I'll see how the new leaves do after they unfurl and extend. |
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| Hi I grow only tropical lilies but have a similar problem. Mostly in the spring just as the lilies break dormancy. Can't find the cause but the lilies grow so fast by May the problem is gone lol I always suspected that it might be tapoles as I can't find an insect. This year for example have very few tadpoles and they show little damage . Wouldn't worry too much aout it unless it goes into the heavy growing season gary |
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