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king protea
Hi,
My King Protea, since it was planted from the nursery 2 years ago, has not flowered once. I planted it with the fertiliser tablet as the nursery suggested, and have only occasionally thrown some native garden osmocote on it. It's sitting in slightly acidic sand, covered by mulch. I notice some of the leaves have 'rust spots' on it and assume that this means an imbalance of some sort? Could someone help? |
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Gabra wrote:
Hi, My King Protea, since it was planted from the nursery 2 years ago, has not flowered once. I planted it with the fertiliser tablet as the nursery suggested, and have only occasionally thrown some native garden osmocote on it. It's sitting in slightly acidic sand, covered by mulch. I notice some of the leaves have 'rust spots' on it and assume that this means an imbalance of some sort? Could someone help? Is it getting lots of sun? How big is it? If it's still small, waiting another year might help. Maybe take some spotty leaves to the nursery you got it from and ask them if they look like a problem Jane |
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king protea
Thanks for your suggestions, Jane. My responses below:
"Jane VR" wrote in message ... Gabra wrote: Hi, My King Protea, since it was planted from the nursery 2 years ago, has not flowered once. I planted it with the fertiliser tablet as the nursery suggested, and have only occasionally thrown some native garden osmocote on it. It's sitting in slightly acidic sand, covered by mulch. I notice some of the leaves have 'rust spots' on it and assume that this means an imbalance of some sort? Could someone help? Is it getting lots of sun? Yes, it gets full sun. How big is it? If it's still small, waiting another year might help. It's about 40 cm high, is that still too small? Maybe take some spotty leaves to the nursery you got it from and ask them if they look like a problem Will do, if it still doesn't flower. |
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king protea
"CT" wrote in message ... Hi, Plenty of sun and water. Surprisingly enough they like a good drink. If it is green and producing new growth don't add any more fertiliser. Don't worry about the leaves if all other things look OK. They are really quite tough and would expect the plant to flower from this year. Cut each flowering stem back within 30cm of the base after it flowers to encourage new shoots. If you have the room look for other forms of this plant, narrow pointy leaves indicate smaller blooms with larger bracts, large rounded leaves tends to indicate bulky very large flowers. Enjoy CT Thanks CT, good tips. It gets bore water from sprinkler system set to go off every 3 days to run for 20 minutes. Maybe it's the same thing that bore water does to cement LOL! Aside from the rusty spottiness, it looks fairly healthy. I don't know what it should look like, this is my first protea. -- Remove Nospam_ from address to reply "Gabra" wrote in message ... Hi, My King Protea, since it was planted from the nursery 2 years ago, has not flowered once. I planted it with the fertiliser tablet as the nursery suggested, and have only occasionally thrown some native garden osmocote on it. It's sitting in slightly acidic sand, covered by mulch. I notice some of the leaves have 'rust spots' on it and assume that this means an imbalance of some sort? Could someone help? |
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