Re[2]: H. Elegans / stunted look


These plants are " in decline". You need to take them out of the ground and
clean up the crowns, of dead tissue, old tissue, old bloom scapes, scrape
the root surfaces, bleach out the dry or wet rot and replant slightly
higher. Nature of the beast with slow growing sieboldiana types.

They may continue to decline or try and send out new shoots - help them
out.

     bruce


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Subject: Re: H. Elegans / stunted look
Author:  hosta-open@mallorn.com (owner-hosta-open@mallorn.com) at HERCULES
Date:    05/18/2000 8:56 AM





>Mike, I have seen plants that look as you described.  It was the
result of
>using Roundup too late in the spring.  It sometimes takes two years
for the
>plant to recover.
>Mary



But I have seen it too, and I have never used Roundup in the garden!
And
have also seen it in plants that have no tree root competition, and
adequate water.  Could it be crown damage or a unique form of crown rot?

I had some seib. elegans that did this a couple of years ago, and now
they
are recovered but are small, "one gallon" three year old plants.  I
have
dubbed it "the uglies" although I think that is a term usually
reserved for
another problem.

I have an 'Aristocrat' this year that looks suspiciously similar.
It's
stunted and has those weird leaves. Ugh!
Stacy

Stacy Holtzman
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Bloomington, Indiana Z5b


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