[Aroid-l] the symptom of overfertilized Amorphophallus?

From: <ju-bo at msn.com> on 2009.06.10 at 09:30:58(19413) Dear Andras, I am NOT an expert, but when I used to grow aquatic aroids, they used to suffer "leaf burn'', and I was told that the man-made granular AND some liquid fertilizers which contain ''salts'' were the main cause of this problem.  I was given some liquid fertilizers with a low-salt content, and advised to use them in a weak mix more frequently, and to allow rain to 'flush'' the soil as often as possible, I also used OLD cow manure and WEAK mixes of fish emulsion fertilizer, this certainly improved the leaf burn situation.  Perhaps you need to reduce the amount of fertilizer you use? I hope that this may work for you. Good Growing, Julius HTML +More Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 13:30:42 +0200 From: asziranyi@gmail.com To: aroid-l@gizmoworks.com Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Is this the symptom of overwatered Amorphophallus? Hi All, Thanks you for the responses. Let's see the answers: - Sun burning and "peeling" - what means a type of mechanical damage (As I am correct) - Over fertilization. Because all my plants are inside the flat and none of them are in front of the window, the sun burst isn't my problem. As I know there was no mechanical damage, too. But I fertalized my plants a lot, so it seems to be the real problem. Thank you again Agoston and Scott! Bests, Andras On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Scott Hyndman <hyndman@aroid.org> wrote: Hi Andras, This necrosis and burning of the edges of the leaf tissue is typically a symptom of over fertilization. Regards, Scott On May 29, 2009, at 5:44 AM, Andras Sziranyi wrote: > Hi All, > > After few years of inactivity now I have more time to care for > Amorphophalluses. I have only one specie (but one plant has > different stub - we can discuss it later) the A. konjac. I hold > them inside our flat because I don't have garden. > > Few days ago I've found that the leaves started to searing. Here is > a picture about this: > > http://picasaweb.google.com/asziranyi/Amorphophallus? > authkey=Gv1sRgCMDl9bvfjYbdrAE#5341174943982983570 > Could anybody know what wants the leaves tell me? :-) > > Thank you, > > Andras from Budapest, Hungary > > PS: Just imaging is here anybody from Hungary, too? > > _______________________________________________ > Aroid-L mailing list > Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com > http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l --_035aa424-4f12-45f7-a775-daf84c5da815_----==============w45265881922972500=

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