Elaeagnus root rot
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Your pictures and story are pretty much exactly the same as my story with my elm forest last summer. When I pulled
It out of the pot it really smelled rotten.
The roots standing in water drowned, died, and rotted. I pulled the root ball out, drilled holes in the pot where the water was standing, put a thin layer of pumice down, and put the root ball back in. It's doing fine now. The pumice layer was just to hold the root ball a couple of millimeters off the bottom while it recovered.
Montlater there was a news feed saying pour hydrogen peroxide cut about one third on the rotten roots. You might try that.
It out of the pot it really smelled rotten.
The roots standing in water drowned, died, and rotted. I pulled the root ball out, drilled holes in the pot where the water was standing, put a thin layer of pumice down, and put the root ball back in. It's doing fine now. The pumice layer was just to hold the root ball a couple of millimeters off the bottom while it recovered.
Montlater there was a news feed saying pour hydrogen peroxide cut about one third on the rotten roots. You might try that.
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Of course!
Well, the room is rather like a greenhouse. 4 meters long southwest facing windows, and the trees are on stands before it. They have 4 x 4400 lumen led lamps, with 6400 Kelvin. These are ON around 12-14 hours daily. To increase the humidity, I use an ultrasonic humidifier.
But of course there are species which I could never keep alive, these are Serissa and Syzigium buxifolium. And I had a Trachelospermum asiaticum which arrived with rotten roots from the bonsai dealer, because it was in an overused akadama, and it was like a mug.
I attach some photos of my trees!
Well, the room is rather like a greenhouse. 4 meters long southwest facing windows, and the trees are on stands before it. They have 4 x 4400 lumen led lamps, with 6400 Kelvin. These are ON around 12-14 hours daily. To increase the humidity, I use an ultrasonic humidifier.
But of course there are species which I could never keep alive, these are Serissa and Syzigium buxifolium. And I had a Trachelospermum asiaticum which arrived with rotten roots from the bonsai dealer, because it was in an overused akadama, and it was like a mug.
I attach some photos of my trees!
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Thank you for the answer! So annoying that most of the pots are like this. I also drilled additional holes on it and put a thin layer of expanded clay, but then it seemed better to put into that fruit washer container. I hope it was good idea. The mix now is perlite and zeolite, and treated with some rooting stimulator (called Radifarm).
I also saw the hidrogen peroxide method once, maybe I should really try it!
I see new leaves and shots are still okey, but some older leaves are getting a bit yellowish now. Hope it will recover.
And it’s pot, with the new holes and clay:
I also saw the hidrogen peroxide method once, maybe I should really try it!
I see new leaves and shots are still okey, but some older leaves are getting a bit yellowish now. Hope it will recover.
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And it’s pot, with the new holes and clay:
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Thanks for showing all the tree's that you keep indoor. Most are looking really healty.
Do you put them outdoors in summer?
Do you put them outdoors in summer?
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Tx for showing us your trees and setup. But you can hardly call that "indoors" . As you say, it's almost a greenhouse with its own microclimate. Doesnt that high humidity affect your furniture?
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