speaking of phals, i have a golden peoker daughter which has a couple
flowers that have a spot of brown goopy stuff on a couple petals. there
is a lesion that goes from the front to the back of the petal, and this
gloppy stuff, which washes off easily with plain water. doesn't smell
or anything. 2 flowers out of about 5 on the plant are affected. rest
of the plant looks fine.

thoughts? thx...

--j_a

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speaking of phals, i have a golden peoker daughter which has a couple
flowers that have a spot of brown goopy stuff on a couple petals. there
is a lesion that goes from the front to the back of the petal, and this
gloppy stuff, which washes off easily with plain water. doesn't smell
or anything. 2 flowers out of about 5 on the plant are affected. rest
of the plant looks fine.

thoughts? thx...

--j_a


If the flower looks eaten then its snail or slug poop. get some slug killer
that has iron phosphate as it's non toxic and really does the job.

In article 02,
Dusty wrote:


If the flower looks eaten then its snail or slug poop. get some slug killer
that has iron phosphate as it's non toxic and really does the job.

dang. if i've got slugs on my windowsill in my living room, i am in
DEEP trouble. (i did have a slug in a pot once...) i cut the
affected flowers off just to be on the safe side; will have to see if it
spreads. may have to yank that one out of the pot *again* if it's got
critters...

--j_a