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White mold on edge of leaves
This year I planted 5 Alchemilla mollis plants(Ladies Mantles) in a raised
bed, well drained, well mulched. Yesterday one of them has a thin white line edging along all serations of every one of it's leaves. I think it's mold, tried spraying with cinnemon tea but the sprayer got clogged up! Any suggestions? I am afraid this will spread to the group of them. Thank You, Moll |
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White mold on edge of leaves
I double filtered another batch of cinnemon tea, as the white stuff on edges
rubs off easily. The spray seem to dissolve the mold. I've got 2 more Alchemilla mollis that are now showing dark stuff that rubs off of leaves, placed throughout the top of the leaf. Perhaps changing weather conditions have caused this, too. Will do a web search on this. Thanks for your help. Moll Wi Zone 5a "Tyra Trevellyn" wrote in message ... From: "Moll McCarty" Date: Tue, Jun 24, 2003 11:30 AM Message-id: This year I planted 5 Alchemilla mollis plants(Ladies Mantles) in a raised bed, well drained, well mulched. Yesterday one of them has a thin white line edging along all serations of every one of it's leaves. I think it's mold, tried spraying with cinnemon tea but the sprayer got clogged up! Any suggestions? I am afraid this will spread to the group of them. Thank You, Moll Have you checked the white stuff to see if it can rub off at all? Mold or mildew will show up on your fingers if you rub it, although that won't be the way to clear it up. It's unusual for Lady's Mantle to get foliar diseases, so let's look at other possibilities. I see that the weather is quite hot in parts of Wisconsin today, if that is where you are. Has this suddenly become the case, as it has here in the Northeast, after a long cool wet spring? If so, it could be a kind of sunburn effect. I've been growing Alchemilla mollis for years and it does indeed get sunburned, particularly if the leaves are wet and the weather has suddenly turned hot and sunny. Mulching can't protect leaves, of course. It usually recovers nicely, with some judicious cutting back of damaged leaves. If you're noticing the problem on the leaves along the flower stems, well....that's just the aging process. Those leaves will deteriorate as the blooms mature. As for the sprayer, it's necessary to filter the tea very well before pouring it into a sprayer. Sediment will indeed clog up most sprayers. You can use fine cheesecloth, or better still, paper coffee filters. If the plant is getting sunburned, the spray won't help, of course, and could worsen the situation. (I've had no luck with cinnamon spray for powdery mildew, by the way, but I hear about positive experiences with it.) You could dig up the plant, pot it up and isolate it until it shows signs of recovery. It could simply be a weaker plant than the others and thus be more susceptible to whatever ails it, sunburn included. Best, Tyra nNJ usa z7 |
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White mold on edge of leaves
"Moll McCarty" expounded:
This year I planted 5 Alchemilla mollis plants(Ladies Mantles) in a raised bed, well drained, well mulched. Yesterday one of them has a thin white line edging along all serations of every one of it's leaves. I think it's mold, tried spraying with cinnemon tea but the sprayer got clogged up! Any suggestions? I am afraid this will spread to the group of them. Thank You, Moll There is a variety of Alchemilla mollis that *is* white edged, I find it very attractive. -- Ann, Gardening in zone 6a Just south of Boston, MA ******************************** |
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