"Jackie D" wrote in message
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I'm being greedy by posting twice for different reasons. Hope this is
ok.

My camelia caught a disease and died. Following advice I recevied from
my garden centre, I cleansed the soil with diluted Jeyes fluid. A while
later I moved a pot containing a handsome acer to that very spot. Then
that died within a very short period of time. I am now thinking the
soil in the pot is infected also.

I would like to re-use the pot but would I need to cleanse the soil?
Get rid of the soil and cleanse the pot? Throw the pot away and buy a
new one?

Here is more about the disease and my poor camelia:

The beautiful pink flowering camelia was healthy in its pot for years.
Then I transplanted it to the garden in between a lilac tree and a four
foot high bike shed. Soon it got badly infected by sooty mould. It was
so bad that it looked almost fire damaged. For four years I spent hours
cleaning the leaves and wiping off the sooty mould. I seemed to be on
top of it. Then suddenly all the leaves dropped off and it died. By
this point it had developed these strange 'berries' - brown sacks that
emitted a grey dust if squeezed.

I dug the plant up and cleansed the soil. A few months later I moved my
potted acer on top of the infected spot (in hindsight that was a dumb
thing to do).

So back to my question, will this pot continue to kill whatever I put
in it even if I clean it really well? Suggestions on how to clean it
would be very useful.

I feel I am out of my depth with this one!



Got to agree with the other posters, you probably weakened the camelia by
digging it up and moving it, then moved it to an unsuitable area, where it
was unable to resist scale insects, then you pointlessly poured chemicals on
the soil which probably didnt doing the acer any good if its roots extended
under the soil, but it likely died because the area was unsuitable. Is the
area damp, shady and not growing much anyway? If so, dont puta plant there,
in a pot or otherwise :-)

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