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Old 21-07-2008, 02:18 PM posted to rec.gardens
Phyllis Stone Phyllis Stone is offline
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Default angel trumpet leaves curling


"Jangchub" wrote in message
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On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:31:49 -0500, "Phyllis Stone"
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"Jangchub" wrote in message
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Brugmansia and Datura are two different plants altogether,
taxonomically speaking. Brugs are Angel trumpets, Datura are Devil's
trumpets. Common names are idiotic. Cupping has nothing to do with
fertilization and yellowing foliage is normal as it self-limbs. They
can grow and produce in a three gallon pot as long as they have
adequate water. One wind and they'll tip over, but still can survive
just the same. I have 30 of these plants in tubs.




This plant is important to me and I am determined that it not die. We
don't have a nursery close so I am going to snip a couple of leaves and
take
them to Ace Hardware and get help. It would be better to have a real plant
place but my choices are Home Depot or Ace. I dusted it with Ortho rose
and
floral dust, scratched in some ironite and moved it a little back under a
tree fern leaf. I am hoping that someone there can look at the leaves and
say 'yes, you need to do this and everything will be fine'. I don't have a
'green thumb' at all but I really would like this plant to survive my
care.


You were given advice, but you did what you wanted anyway so if the
plant dies, oh well. Nobody told you to dust with Ortho rose and
floral dust and certainly nobody told you to ad ironite, which has
toxic levels of arsenic in it. I've been growing these plants for
decades. Don't ask a question and then go do whatever you want
anyway. Don't waste my time. Take it to Ace Hardware. Don't take
time to use the biggest library on earth, the Internet.




I am sorry to have offended anyone. I was just trying really hard to gather
as much advice as possible. I have searched the Internet and I guess my
computer skills match my plant growing skills because I couldn't find
anything that exactly matched my problem so I made a judgment call, possibly
wrong. The dusting was in case there were bugs I couldn't see, there were no
webs, the ironite was in case I had overwatered and stressed the plant and I
also tried to get it out of the sun as much as I could. I reasoned that the
'cupping' could mean that the leaf veins are not supporting the leaf causing
it to collapse. Again I am sorry to offended anyone in anyway.