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Begonia maculata wightii with bleached leaves

7 years ago

I have a B. maculata var. wightii but can't seem to get those beautiful deep green (and red backed) leaves that everyone else seems to get. I'm not sure if it's a lighting or fertilizer issue, but my leaves seem bleached on both sides.

At first I thought it was insufficient lighting, so I moved it to an east facing window for several months. The problem continued so I pulled it away a few feet from the east window but the problem continued. I moved since then and it's now near a north facing window.

It's still pushing out lots of new leaves but all the new leaves are also quite bleached.

Since it has new growth I went ahead and fertilized with diluted Dyna Gro Foliage Pro last week in case it's a fertilizer issue. I was planning on continuing that a couple of times a month to see if that makes a difference.

The leaves are also not as large as other plants I have seen but I thought that might be more a maturity issue.

Does anyone have any ideas/suggestions on what I might be doing wrong?



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