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Old 27-05-2011, 08:36 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Sunflower + others dead/droopy/soft within hours

On May 26, 8:29*pm, freshage
wrote:
Hi guys,

New to the forum, my girlfriend and I recently moved into our first
place and took it upon our selfs to become amatuer gardeners!

Anyway, our plants have been growing like wildfire over the last 2
months from seedlings. Over the last week or 2, most of them have been
suddenly drooping to the soil, losing all 'spring' in their step and
generally looking tired.

Normally a little splash of more water does the trick but it seems we
are fighting a loosing battle. We water regularly and they are in decent
compost.

Here is our sunflower, yesterday it was full of life and today it seems
it has just decided to comit suicide. Is there any chance it will
survive and anything I can do to help restore it?

Also, any idea what could be causing this?

[image:http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u...526_201650...]

[image:http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u...526_201641...]

[image:http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u...526_201636...]

Thanks, Chris & Emma.

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freshage

You certainly can over/under water. The clue is in the wieght of the
pot if you can just ease it off it's support.
Looks more like some sort of disease to me, maybe fungal. Are they all
affected?
If you catch it at an early stage there are antifungal sprays.