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Post by Rick Hillier on Sept 30, 2007 18:09:40 GMT -5
Greetings, I have a couple of cephs that do not look very happy. I suspect some sort of fungal infection judging from what I have read in the other threads here, but I wanted to solicit opinions and solutions. My first instinct is to cut them down to the base, repot and see what comes back. When I intially tried repotting the larger of this group, I lost all of the growth crowns on the parent plant, but I have two cuttings growing fairly well that are not exhibiting this "feature". Anyway, here are the images... warning... these photos are not for the faint of heart: Any advice would be very much appreciated. >>> Rick <<<
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Post by lloyd on Sept 30, 2007 20:29:12 GMT -5
Are the purplish brown pitchers drying up? Are the green ones still healthy looking? Maybe you just need to wait it out?
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Post by curlingguy on Oct 1, 2007 1:22:28 GMT -5
When in doubt, spray it with "Defender" the fungicide..............
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Post by vraev on Oct 1, 2007 2:06:21 GMT -5
the pitchers are nice rick...but it doesn't look too happy. Especially all that powdery stuff on it. yeah...I guess time to go chemical.
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Post by Rick Hillier on Oct 1, 2007 7:06:30 GMT -5
I normally get that purplish colours in the pitchers due to the lighting... The pitchers, however, are gradually withering. I'm going to try CurlingGuy's suggestion and get some Safer's Defender and see if that helps. If it doesn't, the next step might be to introduce some trich.
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Post by mabudon on Oct 1, 2007 8:30:48 GMT -5
Jiminy Cricket Rick, I don't know what to say, that is some UGLY lookin business- hopefully Jay has somethin to say when he checks in later, he's had the odd crazy problems every once in a while but I haven't heard of anything like that, damn
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Post by tom on Oct 1, 2007 13:42:58 GMT -5
have you had a look at its roots?
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Post by Flytrap on Oct 1, 2007 14:22:55 GMT -5
I've got a similar problem on one of my cephs.
There are three separate clumps all growing in the same planter bowl. Two of them are bursting with new growth and the third one is slowly withering away. Tom is probably correct. It may be the roots.
I've sprayed it with Benomyl as well as "no damp" ...but the dying of leaves and shriveling up is none stop.
I was just thinking about Tom's comments... it may be some sort of insect pest on the roots... I'll spray it with some insecticide ...
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Post by Rick Hillier on Oct 1, 2007 14:46:19 GMT -5
I'll take the one out of its pot tonight and see what the roots look like. I should have a pic or two of it up by the end of the day.
>>> Rick <<<
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Post by mabudon on Oct 1, 2007 14:56:20 GMT -5
Careful Rick, too many more pics like that and something bad could happen to your "Karma"
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Post by tom on Oct 1, 2007 15:13:19 GMT -5
Just a note: sulfur is effective mostly against mildew, but this case dont look much like it, but sulfur does play a role in plants defence system (phytoalexins) in some species too, so... I still bet on the roots , just hope it is not some kind of root rot...
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Post by jay on Oct 1, 2007 15:52:15 GMT -5
I don't think i can give you any real advice just from those pictures , how do you grow your plants , how wet to you keep the them? soaked all the time ? But best guess is what tom suggested , something going on down below the surface , but i don't think its a fungus for some reason does'nt look right
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Post by jay on Oct 1, 2007 15:53:23 GMT -5
how old are the plants ,
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Post by Rick Hillier on Oct 1, 2007 17:34:47 GMT -5
This post will probably kill my kharma altogether I've had the plants for about a year now... I had never repotted them since I got them. I unpotted the first one and in regard to the question about the roots of the plants, I would respond... "WHAT ROOTS?" Although I had grown them in somewhat drier conditions, the media was decomposed and soggy, which took the roots with it. Here's what they looked like: Ceph #1 Ceph #2 I washed all of the old media off, trimmed off the dead foliage and repotted them into peat/sand. A while back, with my largest ceph, which had a new growth coming out of the bottom of the pot, I repotted it into plain ol' peat moss (didn't have a source of sand at the time) and it promptly went backward. I made cuttings, both in peat moss and two cuttings started growing... they started to get peeved as well, so I repotted the smaller one into peat/sand and it responded favourably (below): The second one was still growing but recently started dying back, so I just repotted it... it will recover, as the growth crowns look good, but you can see the stress it was under: The larger ceph form I got from Carl M is growing, and I just recently summoned the courage to transplant it from the sphagnum into the peat/sand. So far so good. Let's hope that the others recover... keep your fingers, toes and eyes crossed (woudn't that make a great group pic)... Thanks for all the help. OCPS Rocks >>> Rick <<<
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Post by vraev on Oct 1, 2007 17:38:20 GMT -5
wow rick...good luck with the first ceph. Hopefully it turns around. BTW>..can u please tell me...in the last pic...u said u repotted it from sphagnum. How long did it take to start growing again?
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