hosta help w/ picts

16 years ago

I checked around online and couldn't find any picts that matched the damage. Starts off a little bit of white and then turns brown and ruins the leaves. I don't see any bugs and have tried each year to treat them before it gets out of hand but it's starting again and over night several leaves on each plant are damaged. There huge plants and come up beautiful and then boom. I have picts but cant get the sight to take them. Any help maybe I could put them on face book I saw some members on there?

HELP PLEASE they will be ruined over night

Ann

tks for help w/ picts!

Here is a link that might be useful: photobucket

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paul_in_mn
16 years ago
aodett - below are your pics - just past html for each pic into your message and then preview - if you see them in preview we will too. Don't know if anyone will be able to see anything in pics - out of focus and distorted light.

Paul
thisismelissa
16 years ago
Were you searching around today for the term "translucent hostas"?

There was a hit on my blog for that term.

Anyway, with the distortion in the pics, it's hard to tell, but the 4th pic looks like you've suffered frost damage and now that section of your hosta is browning out.

It's ugly, but harmless. Unless it really bothers you, do not trim out the icky leaves. As long as there is green, it's sending energy to the roots.
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aodett
Original Author
16 years ago
hi,
believe it or not there not that distorted. They have funny white spots then the white spreads and they turn brown then the entire leaf rots and falls off. It's been very hot so can't be frost. one or 2 leaves one day then 10 the next and so on. any ideas? tks for the photo info
ann
ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
16 years ago
that arb might be stealing all available moisture ...

how much water do you give your hosta..

are there any maples around ....

frost damage could have occurred weeks ago.. but the heat finally is showing the damage it did ... try not to dismiss the suggestions made ... BTW.. where are you??? .. it will really help us with theories ...

ken
just1morehosta
16 years ago
aodtte,
I know exactly what you are talking about,my neighbor has the same problem,we know it is not slugs, not frost damage, but do Not know What is casusing it.
Posted very clear pictures last year,and no one knew what it was.
She sprayed on a regular basis,all around and under her hosta, but has the same problem every year, starting at this time.I will ask her to post also.
cAROL
gardengirl_nancy
16 years ago
I have the same problem! I can tell enough from your pictures that you have the samething I do. My hostas have been beautiful this year, until last week. The last several years I have had this problem. They start out beautiful then overnight they get very tiny white spots on all of them. This then turns into little pin holes. I've been told "I am in denial" that it is slugs. I have had slug damage and it just seems different. With this the holes stay tiny. Plus the holes are on hostas that slugs are not suppose to like! Hostas with heavy thick substance. I was also told ( can't remember now who it was), that it could be flea beetles. I never see bugs on them. It's a mystery for me. I just can't believe these tiny white spots are from slugs. If it were slugs, wouldn't they be making big holes, not the very same tiny white spots on all hostas that then turn into tiny holes?