Basjoo leaves growing sideways at an angle and wound tight
Please Help Me! Totally new to this. Ordered 12 new tissue cultures that were 12" tall. Kept them in a pot until root system was well established. Put them in the ground about 6 weeks ago and the plants are growing nicely and they have doubled in size but lately I've noticed that the new leaves are not growing straight up and opening. They are growing outward at an angle and they are staying wound really tight. I had to go out and open some of them up by hand and the next shoot is inside growing the same way. The leaves also seem really thin and yellowish. I have also noticed brown spots on the new shoots as they are coming out of the stem. Could this be soil issues? Disease? I did find black caterpillars munching away on the leaves and they were burrowed down inside the stem. I picked out the worms and I got something from our local nursery for caterpillars and sprayed the leaves and stem down.
Ed_starr
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