Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: hubballi on April 24, 2010, 10:29
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I bought a healthy white current plant last week and have just potted it after letting it stand in water for an hour. I have used normal compost with some blood fish and bone mixed in the bottom.
Almost overnight the leaves are starting to wilt as well as go thin leaving a white membrane.
Can anyone tell me what is happening ?
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Don't know about your whitecurrant, but one of my gooseberry bushes is suddenly looking very sorry for itself this week - my fault, I'd got to digging over the final section of my plot and the gooseberry (which was in the wrong place according to my plans) was surrounded by couch weed. So even though I knew it was completely the wrong time of year to do it as the poor thing was about to burst into blossom, I dug it up to remove as much of the couch weed root as I could, before re-planting it in a new location in my new soft-fruit bed. It's now gone into wilty sulk mode.
I'm giving my plant lots of tlc & water - am not expecting any fruit from it this year, but hoping it'll pick up again later.
Is it possible that your plant is not impressed at being repotted right now while it's in growth mode, I wonder?
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Yes, it's quite likely the planting that has put it into sulk mode. As Loubs is doing, give it lots of tlc and water, and also cut back the main upright stems to half their length. This will minimize water demand on the stressed plant and it should shoot back quickly. I wouldn't feed it at all right now as this will further stress the plant which is trying to recover, let alone be forced to put on sudden growth.
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It may also help to rig up a bit of temporary shade, until they are less sulky ......it's a bit warm out there for anything newly moved 8)
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So has mine, :( It's looking very sorry for itself, along with 5 other berries I planted. Oops I've already given them a feed as they looked like they needed it!