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Drooping cyclamen
John Wakeman
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Around three years ago I inherited an indoor cyclamen which has flowered none stop. It is standing in the same spot and has always been watered in the same manner. Recently it has begun to droop over the side of the pot. There is no sign of disease, in fact the flowers and foliage appear healthy but the stems are longer than they usually are allowing flower heads and leaves to droop. Any ideas?
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Thanks a lot
Mine has been very unhappy since I retired and have had the heating on in the daytime during the colder weather. They prefer it cooler. I shall have to toughen up!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It can be over watering, under watering, over feeding, too hot too cold or vine weevils eating the roots.
I would probably knock it out of its pot, wash all soil off and repot, possibly just for this year cut off all flowers to give the plant a rest. Drastic, but it has 2 chances, it will or will not recover.
Good luck as they are lovely plants when happy.
vine weevil?
sorry Joyce, missed your post
Vine weevils are a flightless, ovall, grey brown beetle which usually only walks about in the dark, hiding under pots during daylight hours. It lays its eggs in the compost of container grown plants where the grubs eat the roots when they hatch. They just lurv cyclamen, fuschias and heuchras. They do not leave any evidence of their presence, the plant just unexpectedly collapses. It is really difficult to control them, Provada is quite good but you have to keep treating containers at regulare intervals, also squashing the beetle on a beetle drive at night, or repotting. Provada is quite expensive to buy but nothing else seems to kill the d****d things.
Good luck.