revensen

Backwashed the pool on Tuesday night and the hose detached from the backwash pipe. Made a huge mess and many of my plants have melted. Anyone have any care advice after something like this? Pool filter being backwashed was a DE filter, chlorine level was low, slightly below 1ppm but I'm not what the PH was. The plants have pretty much melted. Is the problem that the roots have been burned? Odds of recovery?

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momoese

Maybe flushing the soil with fresh water then letting it dry? Perhaps use a chlorine filter on the hose before flushing.

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Dalmatiansoap

Did U check the plants on spridermites?

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revensen

Will check after work.

Yug

That bottom photo looks like a bunchy-top infected leaf. It may be from the chlorine, but still looks similar.

jjjankovsky

bummer...but, if you are a real gardener, you'll know there's a question and a lesson here...

gardening, a transative verb...goes on as long as one can get out there.

paulorph

Probably the cholorine. Need to probably put a bunch of water into soil.

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RandyGHO

I would flush with fresh water then let it get dry. The chlorine will be gone I would think like letting city water set open to the air remove the chlorine

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paulorph

Now most city chorine uses a compound that does not degrade wuickly. Cholamine are deadly for all fish and I am sure bad for plants. Plus in soil, not exposed to as much air so decomposition is much slower. Deal with this issue a lot because I have marine aquariums.

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Nicolas Naranja

I see you are in Florida, so I would suggest leaching the area with freshwater. A gallon of fresh water per square foot of soil will pretty much leach everything out of the root zone.

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jmoore

You could try a non sequestered iron additive like iron sulphate to bind up the chlorine and waiting for it to leach away naturally. Or you could aerate the soil and try to get the chlorine to evaporate more quickly. Or dig up the plants, wash the roots and replant or repot them to recover.

revensen

Since the backwash episode, many of the plants that were in the photos have died. Those included both canna's and banana's. Interesting enough, a Crinum I have there is doing great. I'm posting what a larger banana is now showing. This banana was in the backwash area. This look like black sigatoka?



Or is this from the pool backwash?

jjjankovsky

yup...

around here, they cut and remove those leaves...and burn them

revensen

If that's what it is, how do I manage this? How does it spread and does it spread to the entire plant?

sandy0225

I bet it's pool backwash, not black sigatoka. Cut off the bad leaves and if you haven't already, you need to thoroughly water the area to dilute the pool chemicals, and flush them out. Then it should recover.
I know this will happen because a customer of mine went out of town and asked another guy I know to fertilize his banana plants and put some shock/algaecide in the pool while he was gone. Well what happened was the jugs got mixed up and the shock/algaecide got put on the banana plant the the fertilizer in the pool. Needless to say, the pool and the banana was wrecked. The banana died all the way down to the ground, but the guy that mixed up the chemicals realized what he had done the next day and flushed the pot out really well with water. That banana sat there like dead for about a month, and then it started pupping.

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TommyMacLuckie

Eh, did the rain from Debby happen where you live? That's the best thing of all.

revensen

Have had several inches of rain since last week. Hopefully that helps!