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Jasmine Trouble-shooting

ciaranmcgreneraciaranmcgrenera Posts: 313
in Problem solving
I have never grown a Jasmine before. It’s been growing quite well and is taller than me now, although over the last few weeks all of the leaves are showing with this kind of damage. It’s in a pot on a patio and I feel like it may have been dried out and damaged by wind as it is at a corner where it might be too exposed (in an effort to hit the summer sun just right). Otherwise I have found one little snail in it, but that’s all. 

Does anyone have a diagnosis?

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  • clarke.bruntclarke.brunt Posts: 215
    Seeing as so healthy-looking, apart from the tears and small marks, it wasn't pelted with hailstones, was it?
  • ciaranmcgreneraciaranmcgrenera Posts: 313
    edited March 2021
    OF COURSE it was @clarke.brunt. You’ve probably got it in one. There were a couple of very heavy hail showers a couple
    of weeks back at the same time as the heavy winds that I thought may have caused the problem. 

    Next question is, do I have to cut it back now or can I let it keep going and let it recover itself?
  • clarke.bruntclarke.brunt Posts: 215
    Great - I like trying to play 'detective'. I've had hail-damage once or twice - sometimes it seems that no soon has some tender foliage unfurled than the one hailstorm of the year batters it (probably Datura/Brugmansia I'm thinking of). Bit like there's usually a gale in time to flatten the daffodils!

    Up to you about any cutting back - just looks 'cosmetic' to me, and those leaves won't last forever anyway. I think those are flowers forming (reddish things, though actual flowers of course white) at left in your photo.

    There are quite a few different things sometimes called 'Jasmine' - the 'winter' one, with naked stems and yellow flowers, is obvious, but there seem quite a few with starry white flowers. I got more confused when I tried looking them up. I think I've got one the same as yours - it was my parents' plant - originally a pot-plant trained around a wire hoop. I have it in a bigger pot, and without the hoop, and grown outside, but it always looks uphappy - I think wants to be in the open ground, but I believe it can get rather large, and I haven't a suitable place for it.
  • ciaranmcgreneraciaranmcgrenera Posts: 313
    I’ll have a better look at it tomorrow and see if there’s any particularly bad bits, give it a good feed, a tidy up and a bit of TLC and keep an eye for a couple of weeks.

    I’m not dissimilar to you in terms of positioning, etc. But I am trying a few things out in advance of some hard landscaping opening new possibilities.

    Thanks for the help!
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