My Gardenia is getting worse! Help! - September 7th, 2004 at 12:27 AM
Hi,
I have a gardenia plant that is getting yellow leaves. The leaves start yellowing with green veins, and then after a while, they get yellow and fall off. It currently still has some green leaves left, but I'm afraid it's getting worse. I know that it's iron deficiency because the soil is too alkaline. I need something to make it more acidic!
I've been fertilizing it with regular fertilizer (not a good idea). So today I went out and bought this fertilizer for "Azalea, Camellia, Rhodedendron, and Other Acid Loving Plants"--including gardenias. It has 1% chelated iron and 3% sulfur. I hope by adding this my gardenia would get all right. Would this fertilizer help? Anything else I can do?
Thanks for any help .
I have a gardenia plant that is getting yellow leaves. The leaves start yellowing with green veins, and then after a while, they get yellow and fall off. It currently still has some green leaves left, but I'm afraid it's getting worse. I know that it's iron deficiency because the soil is too alkaline. I need something to make it more acidic!
I've been fertilizing it with regular fertilizer (not a good idea). So today I went out and bought this fertilizer for "Azalea, Camellia, Rhodedendron, and Other Acid Loving Plants"--including gardenias. It has 1% chelated iron and 3% sulfur. I hope by adding this my gardenia would get all right. Would this fertilizer help? Anything else I can do?
Thanks for any help .