is not turning green at all it's absolutely white

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we need to see pix of an all white hosta.. pleeeeeease ...

if it doesn not turn green .. it will die.. it cant photosynthesize if it doesnt turn green ...

white tissue has no ability to stand up to direct sunshine... none at all.. you might want to shade it.. as long as possible.. ive done it.. over the years.. just with a lawn chair.. others have used umbrellas....

pix plz.. ken

Yes, pictures please…….

debra

hi all,

so this is the one that is doing best still you can see a bit of the leaf issue on the very white one

this one here is starting to show some signs to but is also getting some green

this last two photos is the third white hosta who has stopped growing and not yet greening, it has also the most leaves damage due to....i don't know :(

It looks like sunburn to me. As ken said, if it has no green, it can't survive. It has to make cholorophyll to live.

bkay

but why is it not getting green? so even an hour of sun early morning can damage them? In Northern Ireland??

When I look in the HL, the first word used to describe this hosta is “difficult.” Then it says,

”needs enough sun to survive.” I don’t know what growing zone you are in, but perhaps one hour of morning is not enough, although it appears to be burning, I wonder if the translucent parts are from overwatering……????? Hmmmmmm…….

debra

I was thinking to about overwatering, thou i got this plants bare roots at the end of may and i thought to water them every other day, but then that part of the garden maybe is too shady and needs less watering...but again, i have a hosta blue angel on the same side of the garden and it's absolutely fine :/ perhaps i should move them into a pot for a year or two until they are more resilient

Not much you can do. As Ken said, terminal white lacks chlorophyll and is very weak plant. It either will recover or not. 

When I started frowing plants from seed sometimes you get a lot of this whiteness and plant just struggles. It either fixes itself by getting more chlorophyll or dies.

This is my 'White Feather'. Like yours, this was a bare root one I potted up earlier and as you see below it came up all-white and was doing quite nicely.

It was in an area of my potting shed that gets a fair bit of direct light and it was starting to show sunburn signs so I moved it into a much shadier area and it has now 6 mottled leaves so far and appears to be liking its new location much better. All the earlier all-white leaves have withered, just like you were experiencing, so, hang in there, it would appear as if this cultivar has no tolerance for direct light...

Pieter

I went to great trouble to get 2 White Feathers last year. They were disappointing then, and even more so this year. I'm not sure how much effort I'm going to give these guys. Maybe I'll try White Christmas. My 2 Christmas Candys are standouts.

I grow White Feather and Zebra Stripes in pots where I can enjoy their unique early Spring coloration and then move them to area of the garden that gets morning sun and I can hide them behind something because frankly they are ugly after they start greening up.