nutrient deficiency, water logged or both?

5 years ago

last modified: 5 years ago

So, this poor josephs coat has been transplanted twice. The first area I had it in, the bud union wasn't deep enough, then I all together moved it to a better spot (Shame on me, I know!) I thought the second spot it would have enough time to recover from for the winter and thrive better there.

It has been battling transplant shock, which I have been tending with offering shade with a lawn chair and watering when pretty droopy.

I had to dig out the area completely, as I had a trumpet vine I wanted GONE! It was filled with garden soil and a complete planting mixture from my local nursery. I didn't fertilize it until about 2-3 weeks after transplanting, when it was looking healthier. I used Jobes organic rose food.

Some of the older growth looks like this. Is it nitrogen or magnesium? Now I'm looking at the picture I see some brown too, is it water logged?!

Then some of the top growth looks like maybe Iron or manganese? Compared to the older growth which is dark green.

If there are nutrient deficiencies, what should I supplement it with?

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jc_7a_MiddleTN
5 years ago
I'm following along.

I transplanted mine recently and it is showing no new growth and ALL the leaves are a yellow green color, which is not what it looked like before I moved it.
Embothrium
5 years ago
last modified: 5 years ago
Regarding the moisture situation dig in the soil near the plant and inspect it for moisture content. Probably the chlorosis is due to a deficiency in the purchased soil you back-filled with. To find out what the exact deficiency within your plant is it would probably be best to take samples to the nearest USDA Cooperative Extension Service branch office, see what is determined there.

During any future plantings either back-fill with the same soil that came out of the hole, without textural modification (amending) or excavate and replace entire bed sized areas with good quality topsoil. Amending of individual planting holes dug out of larger areas of unmodified soils tends to have deleterious effects on how water enters and exists amended holes. So that various university level woody plant planting studies have repeatedly found overall size increase among control plants placed in non-amended holes to be greater than that of the other half of plants in each study block that was placed in amended holes.
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Original Author
5 years ago
I was unable to use the existing soil because it was ridden with trumpet vine roots and it was mostly clay. I will be sending in a soil sample today!