TrailGaiter
07-28-2011, 09:07 PM
Ok, so I learned a lot about cannas this year after discovering them, and knew I was totally in love! I found a tropicanna locally, but it just didn't look good to me, I wasn't sure if it was virused, or just not receiving enough sun, but either way, I didn't take the risk and buy it, as much as I wanted a tropicanna. Well, I had decided to hold off until next year on my canna venture....since I started "going bananas" this year...but then I came across some somewhere else. Australia Cannas. They looked BEAUTIFUL! Totally healthy, nice and dark... not a speck of discoloration anywhere, they looked great! So I brought one home.
It's been planted in the ground awhile now, and it's producing leaves like wildfire. Produced some beautiful flowers (it's the foliage I like, not the flowers), and starting to pop out some more. But now the leaves aren't looking so good. One of the leaves has a perfect green stripe on it. As if someone took a paint brush and painted it on there. The last photo included shows that leaf. The leaves were unrolling nice and dark, now they're unrolling quite green. The leaves towards the bottom are drying somewhat, and becoming green tinted. Perhaps it's that I'm not caring for it well. I'm watering it daily, maybe I shouldn't be? Up until the past couple days, it's been very dry here. I fertilized it with milorganite. Perhaps I should/shouldn't have done that either. So perhaps someone who knows cannas well can tell me if that fertilizing and daily watering is my problem. Of course, we'vd had rain the past couple days, so I'm not watering anything...
I took several pics this evening. As I said, it's producing leaves like crazy, but now the leaves are greenish, rather than the beauiful reddish/black they were. Is it a virus showing up? Is it the fertilizer? The watering?
And IF my beautiful canna is virused, I will want to find some more, NONvirused canna (tropicanna, bengal tiger, intrigue, australia, red stripe...), when would be the best time to get them? Yet this year, storing rhizomes for winter, or just waiting till spring?
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb236/grullablue/IMAG1147.jpg http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb236/grullablue/IMAG1141.jpg
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb236/grullablue/IMAG1145.jpghttp://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb236/grullablue/IMAG1146.jpg
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb236/grullablue/IMAG1144.jpghttp://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb236/grullablue/IMAG1143.jpg
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb236/grullablue/IMAG1148.jpg
It's been planted in the ground awhile now, and it's producing leaves like wildfire. Produced some beautiful flowers (it's the foliage I like, not the flowers), and starting to pop out some more. But now the leaves aren't looking so good. One of the leaves has a perfect green stripe on it. As if someone took a paint brush and painted it on there. The last photo included shows that leaf. The leaves were unrolling nice and dark, now they're unrolling quite green. The leaves towards the bottom are drying somewhat, and becoming green tinted. Perhaps it's that I'm not caring for it well. I'm watering it daily, maybe I shouldn't be? Up until the past couple days, it's been very dry here. I fertilized it with milorganite. Perhaps I should/shouldn't have done that either. So perhaps someone who knows cannas well can tell me if that fertilizing and daily watering is my problem. Of course, we'vd had rain the past couple days, so I'm not watering anything...
I took several pics this evening. As I said, it's producing leaves like crazy, but now the leaves are greenish, rather than the beauiful reddish/black they were. Is it a virus showing up? Is it the fertilizer? The watering?
And IF my beautiful canna is virused, I will want to find some more, NONvirused canna (tropicanna, bengal tiger, intrigue, australia, red stripe...), when would be the best time to get them? Yet this year, storing rhizomes for winter, or just waiting till spring?
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb236/grullablue/IMAG1147.jpg http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb236/grullablue/IMAG1141.jpg
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb236/grullablue/IMAG1145.jpghttp://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb236/grullablue/IMAG1146.jpg
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb236/grullablue/IMAG1144.jpghttp://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb236/grullablue/IMAG1143.jpg
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb236/grullablue/IMAG1148.jpg