Yes - I remember Ben Oki saying that, when azaleas are in bloom, keep water
off the blossoms. How one does this, if he/she has 50 azaleas, is another
thing to think about.
Marty
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From: "Nina Shishkoff"
To:
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 8:09 AM
Subject: [IBC] brown edges on azalea flowers.....why?


-----Original Message-----
But, when they open (before they are fully open) the edges of the
flowers are turning brown and ruining the image. or, the may have
rotted because the flowers buds as they were breaking
collected too much moisture and rotted (we've had a lot of rain
recently)

As a plant pathologist, I'd opt for your second guess. If you had a lot
of rain and your tree is in a spot where it doesn't get good air
circulation, it is susceptible to Botrytis flower blight. Botrytis is
ubiquitous, so the only way to avoid it is to change environmental
conditions (you can use fungicides, but they don't give good coverage on
quickly-opening parts like buds and flowers.


Nina Shishkoff



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