Re: black stuff on leaves
Hi Adnan,
I'm British too, but right down south in Hampshire. We've had so little rain so far this year that if you want to send a few gallons we'd be very grateful. Grass verges etc were totally parched until yesterday when a few mm fell. My plants now suddenly look like they've had life breathed back into them; tap water is ok but some lovely soft English rain is their drink of choice.
Am wondering if it's a little bit of sooty mould on those leaves? I'm by no means an authority so it's just a shot in the dark.
The leaf distortion may possibly just be the way these plants sometimes react to a change of scenery and/or growing medium.
Have you given it a spray of fungicide just in case? Maybe a bit of Roseclear or similar could help?
Maybe a shufti under magnification could help identify the little vandals? I'd definitely not overwater it until the top few CMs are dry, and even then try to give it rainwater rather than tap water, and when you feed it do so sparingly, in much weaker dilutions than those stated until it starts to grow away rampantly. I've seen young plants die from excessively generous feeding.
Best of luck my Salopian mate, Dave.
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