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Sunlight damage on foliage?

15 years ago

Everything looked peachy until Tuesday. Had gorgeous, healthy, full foliage on everyone and now I'm seeing problems across the board. Every rose is showing symptoms of something regardless of type, location, or age.

I have weird spots that look like someone sneezed bleach on the new burgundy foliage. Older, more mature leaves have a weird kind of pucker at the apex of the leaf. I can best describe it as this--it looks like the central vein of the leaf was pulled, like an elastic cord, and the tip of the leaf has bunched up on itself like a gathered piece of fabric.

Very odd; I've never seen this before. I'm guessing it's some sort of photo/light damage because we have been in the 50's & 60's for so long, which is below normal, and we've had so many gray, blah days....then Monday, everything went haywire. It's been in the upper 80's and yesterday we were in the 90's--a record temp yesterday. Lots of very strong sunlight for 4 days straight now.

That, and I have aphids for the first time ever. This has been such a schizy year as far as climate & conditions...ugh!

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