Help sick plants!
 

Snap dragons suck, my friend. I can grow most things but can't, for the
life of me, grow those damn things. They're finicky and too much bother in
my opinion.....





"Reo" wrote in message
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Okay I'll try again with another subject title! :)

I saw "Sunsatia Peach - Nemesia" at the nursery last week -- they look
like little snap dragons. They were totally healthy and beautiful,
chalk-full of flowers.

Now they're all dying!!

I put a few in the ground (with high quality potting soil) and the
others I placed into larger pots with potting soil. Immediately they
started to "fall" as if someone sat in the middle of them. Most also
lost all their flowers, overnight!

I'm in So CA where temperature has been 75-82 or so. They have been in
full sun, though I had some in partial shade and that didn't help
either. I've tried watering more and watering less... and nothing helps.

Suggestions? Experiences? Comments? Thanks!

Reo

On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 19:27:50 GMT, Reo ) wrote:

Okay I'll try again with another subject title! :)

I saw "Sunsatia Peach - Nemesia" at the nursery last week -- they look
like little snap dragons. They were totally healthy and beautiful,
chalk-full of flowers.

Now they're all dying!!

There are way too many reasons plants die. Or decline
catastrophically. It sounds as if you've covered all the bases. The
only possibilities that spring to *this* mind are some sort of disease
that was present in the plants, and they were going to collapse for
anyone under any conditions, OR the plants had just emerged from
carefully-controlled, ideal nursery conditions and hadn't had time to
'harden off' and adjust to the Real World.

Ah hah! First hit when I searched on 'Nemesia'
(http://discoveringannuals.com/az/n/nemesia.html)
says "Plants are neither frost hardy nor tolerant of sudden heat and
bright light so harden plants off carefully."

Don't give up. They may recover.

Reo wrote "........
I saw "Sunsatia Peach - Nemesia" at the nursery last week -- they look like
little snap dragons. They were totally healthy and beautiful, chalk-full of
flowers.

Now they're all dying!! ........."

I would cut them back to 3 or 4 inches and hope that they will still have
some life left in the roots.
Sounds as if they were just to tender when you planted them out. if you try
again then reduce the growth so that the roots have a chance to get
established and to support the plants.


--
David Hill
Abacus nurseries
www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk