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Rudbeckia - pink roots?

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  • medea21medea21 Posts: 17
    Can anyone tell me what on earth I have done to my Rudbeckia seedlings this year?
  • RoddersUKRoddersUK Posts: 537
    Looks healthy! 
    What soil is it in, has it sucked anything up?
    Sods one leaf is purple veined and the others aren't, along with the pink roots.
  • RoddersUKRoddersUK Posts: 537
    Quick Google:
    Pink root is caused by a fungi called Phoma terrestris. Phoma terrestris is nearly always present in the soil and it pretty much lasts forever. Normally, it causes no serious problems
  • medea21medea21 Posts: 17
    It was just in regular seedling compost - then potted on to multi purpose. It's a puzzle.. just have to see what happens when I put them in the ground... Thanks for replying
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    If you had planted it, why did you dig it up again?
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • medea21medea21 Posts: 17
    I didn't say I had planted it - grown from seed, pricked out, potted on - and this was the result when I decanted from pot to plant out  :/
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Ok, sorry.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
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