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Help. Someone bought me an azalea for my birthday.
I never have indoor plants/flower presents usually, as most people know I don't like plants or flowers indoors. However I did get this azalea and this blinking thing is now losing all its leaves and yet I followed the instructions to the letter. I put it on a north facing cool window sill, on a dish of pebbles, kept the water topped up in this (not too high!) fed it a week solution of acid loving stuff every Saturday and this is how it repays me. The leaves are falling off by the shrub-load every time I move it to check. Can I save it at all? It's been grown like a small tree, i.e. has a clear stem of about 6-9 inches. -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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"Janet Tweedy" wrote in message
... Help. Someone bought me an azalea for my birthday. I never have indoor plants/flower presents usually, as most people know I don't like plants or flowers indoors. However I did get this azalea and this blinking thing is now losing all its leaves and yet I followed the instructions to the letter. I put it on a north facing cool window sill, on a dish of pebbles, kept the water topped up in this (not too high!) fed it a week solution of acid loving stuff every Saturday and this is how it repays me. The leaves are falling off by the shrub-load every time I move it to check. Can I save it at all? It's been grown like a small tree, i.e. has a clear stem of about 6-9 inches. -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk Are you able to say what the temperature would be on that widow sill in the daytime and then at about 2am. I ask that because I think is has subsided due to the fairly severe temperature changes, aggravated by the cold draught from the window in the early hours. It is so difficult to replicate the conditions to which it was accustomed; hence its demise. |
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Pridham writes I would think its struggling to cope with the temperature extremes, the only time I managed to grow and flower one for a few years it lived down the cooler end of an unheated conservatory, so in the winter when it was flowering average temperatures would be a lot lower than your house. But then there is the fact it has been moved from one set of conditions to another and may just be objecting to that. It flowered pretty well for 4 weeks but it's been the last two weeks as the flowers are dying that the leaves are falling off. I don't have a radiator in the kitchen and often open the window a little but I suppose that's warmer than the garden centre where it was kept. How do I save it Charlie? Janet -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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says... In article , Charlie Pridham writes I would think its struggling to cope with the temperature extremes, the only time I managed to grow and flower one for a few years it lived down the cooler end of an unheated conservatory, so in the winter when it was flowering average temperatures would be a lot lower than your house. But then there is the fact it has been moved from one set of conditions to another and may just be objecting to that. It flowered pretty well for 4 weeks but it's been the last two weeks as the flowers are dying that the leaves are falling off. I don't have a radiator in the kitchen and often open the window a little but I suppose that's warmer than the garden centre where it was kept. How do I save it Charlie? Janet So long as you accept that my track record for killing these is bad! pop it outside on mild days, and at night bring it to your side of the curtains (unless you are Double glazed when it won't make as much difference) It can get pretty cold next to the glass once the curtains are drawn. I presume your tap water is not hard and if it is you are not using it? Aim for cool 4c+, not fluctuating to much temperatures and just moist not wet compost. My books all agree that they should only be inside while in flower (temperature of around 15c while in bud and flower)the rest of the winter they go out into a greenhouse or coldframe. I lost mine due to Vine Weavil back in the days before the nursery and therefore before I knew anything about them, so it may be worth checking the roots are ok, no white grubs and no signs of rot. -- Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall www.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and Lapageria rosea |
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Pridham writes So long as you accept that my track record for killing these is bad! pop it outside on mild days, and at night bring it to your side of the curtains (unless you are Double glazed when it won't make as much difference) Double glazed but no curtain as not overlooked! . I presume your tap water is not hard and if it is you are not using it? Taking it from water barrel but leaving it till it gets to room temperature. My books all agree that they should only be inside while in flower (temperature of around 15c while in bud and flower)the rest of the winter they go out into a greenhouse or coldframe. Oh I could put it in the greenhouse, that's just above freezing but I have a large heated deep sand propagator bench and a long hot plate type thing. So could turn the temperature down a bit and put it there. I lost mine due to Vine Weavil back in the days before the nursery and therefore before I knew anything about them, so it may be worth checking the roots are ok, no white grubs and no signs of rot. Oh well you surely need a new one then Charlie.? You can have mine, it's just confirming my antipathy towards plants in the house :) Janet -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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On 8 Jan, 18:14, Janet Tweedy wrote:
Help. Someone bought me an azalea for my birthday. I never have indoor plants/flower presents usually, as most people know I don't like plants or flowers indoors. However I did get this azalea and this blinking thing is now losing all its leaves and yet I followed the instructions to the letter. I put it on a north facing cool window sill, *on a dish of pebbles, kept the water topped up in this (not too high!) fed it a week solution of acid loving stuff every Saturday and this is how it repays me. The leaves are falling off by the shrub-load every time I move it to check. Can I save it at all? It's been grown like a small tree, i.e. has a clear stem of about 6-9 inches. -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraphhttp://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk Sounds like overwatering and feeding. When I was working I would let them get a bit dry - feel the weight, then dunk them until the bubbles stop, then they don't get any more until they've nearly dried again. I didn't feed 'til they went into the shade house and started growing again. Lime free water (rain water or fridge water) of course. Some leaves always fall off in the house but once you see really substantial leaf loss the plant is usually beyond help - sorry. I always lost a few of the small newly bought ones each year but any that survived were then usually OK in subsequent years. |
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says... In article , Charlie Pridham writes Oh well you surely need a new one then Charlie.? You can have mine, it's just confirming my antipathy towards plants in the house :) Janet No thanks it was the deal when we bought this place, all plants to leave the house and go in the conservatory, lost a few due to the lack of heat, and have added many more but azaleas and Rhodos don't do it for me. At the moment we have in flower 4 different Jasmines, Lapageria, hardenbergia, Salvia gaurantica Black and Blue, Acacia fimbriata, Bougainvillea, many and various pelargoniums, Mandevilla boliviensis, Scilla madeiriensis, Clerodenrum ugandense, Not bad considering its been below zero on several occassions this winter! While in the house we have 2 black shriveled poinsettias someone gave us! We are absolutly hopeless with house plants (not much better with veg) -- Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall www.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and Lapageria rosea |
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Pridham writes At the moment we have in flower 4 different Jasmines, Lapageria, hardenbergia, Salvia gaurantica Black and Blue, Acacia fimbriata, Bougainvillea, many and various pelargoniums, Mandevilla boliviensis, Scilla madeiriensis, Clerodenrum ugandense, I had the salvia some time ago but lost it during the winter, I love the colour. I kept it in the garden but had it in the cold greenhouse for 1 winter and it promptly died never to be seen again ! Not bad considering its been below zero on several occassions this winter! While in the house we have 2 black shriveled poinsettias someone gave us! We are absolutly hopeless with house plants (not much better with veg) I'm terrible with houseplants but I don't like even cut flowers, it makes me think of funerals and I hate to see plants that have been cut and die, even if the plant they were on is still alive :) -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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, Rod writes Sounds like overwatering and feeding. When I was working I would let them get a bit dry - feel the weight, then dunk them until the bubbles stop, then they don't get any more until they've nearly dried again. I didn't feed 'til they went into the shade house and started growing again. Lime free water (rain water or fridge water) of course. Some leaves always fall off in the house but once you see really substantial leaf loss the plant is usually beyond help - sorry. I always lost a few of the small newly bought ones each year but any that survived were then usually OK in subsequent years. Oh dear, it's on its way out then ... -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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On 9 Jan, 22:50, Janet Tweedy wrote:
In article , Charlie Pridham writes At the moment we have in flower 4 different Jasmines, Lapageria, hardenbergia, Salvia gaurantica Black and Blue, Acacia fimbriata, Bougainvillea, many and various pelargoniums, Mandevilla boliviensis, Scilla madeiriensis, Clerodenrum ugandense, I had the salvia some time ago but lost it during the winter, I love the colour. I kept it in the garden but had it in the cold greenhouse for 1 winter and it promptly died never to be seen again ! Not bad considering its been below zero on several occassions this winter! While in the house we have 2 black shriveled poinsettias someone gave us! We are absolutly hopeless with house plants (not much better with veg) I'm terrible with houseplants but I don't like even cut flowers, it makes me think of funerals and I hate to see plants that have been cut and die, even if the plant they were on is still alive :) -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraphhttp://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk For most of my working life part of my job was trying to slow the inevitable demise of pot plants in a big dark hot country house - I never did like that very much. I grew very good pot plants and was then extremely reluctant to take them into the 'Big House' to die ;~{ |
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