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Weedy looking standard fuschia
Ideas please. A standard Fuchsia bought about two years ago from Lidal or Aldi is looking decidedly not happy. Last winter I kept it in a cold conservatory and it has flowered its socks off ever since, winter and summer. It has been outside since spring. gradually it has started to look unhappy. Most of the leaves started to drop off and new ones are few and far between although there seems to be leaf buds there. Is it just exhausted after flowering non stop for nearly two years or am I expecting too much. It's looking very leggy. I am reluctant to prune it while there are still flowers and the odd bud on it but maybe that is what it needs?
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there have been a lot of vine weevils about this year and they make a bee line for fuchsias, worth taking a look.
If it seems ok in the pot, don't cut it down now, just put it in a cold greenhouse for the winter so it goes to sleep keeping it quite dry, then when it starts to show little green buds, that’s the time to prune it, it may be too late to turn it into a standard now, it should have been trained like that from a tiny plant, but you can cut it right down in March/ April time, as low as about 3 to 4” inches from the pot, it will make strong growth through the season.
Thank you