Posted by kristan on September 23, 2011, 5:58 am
this year is my 5 year in a row of growing sunflowers in the garden ,
and they have gotton to near flowering now and there is a bud showing ,
and all of a sudden 2 of the 3 i planted have suddenly wilted
any idea's , and there has been anoth rain latly to rule out lack of
water
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kristan
Posted by David Hare-Scott on September 23, 2011, 4:46 pm
kristan wrote:
> this year is my 5 year in a row of growing sunflowers in the garden ,
> and they have gotton to near flowering now and there is a bud
> showing , and all of a sudden 2 of the 3 i planted have suddenly
> wilted
>
> any idea's , and there has been anoth rain latly to rule out lack of
> water
Possibly too much rain, they may have a root fungus.
D
Posted by kristan on September 23, 2011, 6:37 pm
yes but how come there is one that is fine . when its right next to the
drooping ones?
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kristan
Posted by David Hare-Scott on September 24, 2011, 2:11 am
kristan wrote:
> yes but how come there is one that is fine . when its right next to
> the drooping ones?
Because the fungi in the soil are not everywhere the same and plants have
different resistence to them. I have had two eggplants drop dead from
fusarium wilt leaving the others OK.
D
Posted by beecrofter on September 24, 2011, 11:17 am
There are insects that bore out the center of the stems, usually the plant just
snaps at a weak point, but sometimes they wilt.
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> and they have gotton to near flowering now and there is a bud
> showing , and all of a sudden 2 of the 3 i planted have suddenly
> wilted
>
> any idea's , and there has been anoth rain latly to rule out lack of
> water