Fuchsias

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• Mike Allen Posts: 208

  July 2019

  This is so strange but.  OK the genus Fuchsia is so widly grown and cultivated.  It has proved itself to be generally easy to cultivate and propogate then suddenly it all goes zump.  We are all aware that fuchsias have very sensative roots and some drastic results can come from root damage.  This so sudden defoliation is perhaps a new thing.  From a scientific aspect.  The fuchsia is a semi woody species, that has a very thin outer coating, layer, skin/bark.  Over the years, many methods have been experimented with such as, winter storage, actually laying plants horizontally and covering with compost.  This process has had it's up's and downs.  For some reason fuchsias and geraniums have become synonymus with each other.  Why?  Heaven's only knows.  The geraniums can literallbe denied water etc and even srivel and almost die.  They have basic glaubal stems. The fuchsia is more like a tree/shrub. It has this very tin outer coating and an inner much woody stem.

  
  

  Somehow I tend to lean toward the lack of moisture.
  

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• Palustris Posts: 4,307

  July 2019

  Lack of water would surely have affected all the Fuchsias rather than just two of them, one in a pot and one in the garden. They are not even close to each other and the ones alongside them are still fine. The only commonality of treatment is that both of them were sprayed with a ready mixed pesticide before they flowered as both were smothered in aphids. the rest of the plants were and still are clean.
  

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• Lyn Posts: 23,190

  July 2019

  Last year two of my large hardy fuchsias  were stripped in a couple of days, it was Elephant Hawk moth caterpillars, beautiful things, I don’t mind sharing. 

  Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 
  
  

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• Palustris Posts: 4,307

  July 2019

  We have had that in previous years, but the leaves on these just fell off, still whole and still green.
  

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