Serdtse, Zolotoe and Medovoe

JLJ_ · August 11, 2014

Just thought I'd see if anyone growing these could give me an idea if what I'm seeing is normal for these or not. (I know, pics would be useful, but I need pics for another purpose of plants in a much closer location and it's been on the "must do" list for some time . . . and if I got out to the Serdtses with the camera, the contrary critters would probably be in one of their not-odd-looking times, so I thought I wouldn't wait until I am able to get pics.

What I'm seeing, in both Zolotoe Serdtse and Medovoe Serdtse, is an intermittent kind of wilty look in the leaves at the top of the plant -- not one or two leaves, perhaps leaves in the top quarter or top third of the plant. It first appeared perhaps a month ago. It doesn't really look like an illness -- and both plants are blooming and forming fruit happily, but this top-wilted look keeps appearing.

I see it, then after I've watered or fed them, they seem better, which may mean that it's an indicator of water or nutrient deficiency, but in the same row in one direction the next plants are Sweet Ozark Orange and in the other, Fioletovyi Kruglyi, then Black Prince -- and all of those seem completely normal -- not having any fainting fits at all.

It's different from the lighter sometimes "wispy" foliage that some of the hearts display . . . I have Anna Russians in the same garden (though not in the same row) which don't look like this -- though they are much bigger, also, which might mean that they are happier or might mean that the phenomenon is most conspicuous in smaller plants.

Anyway, I was thinking of someone who said that they'd obeyed neighborly advice and pulled out their Anna Russians because they didn't realize that their "different" foliage look was normal for them -- so I began wondering whether this intermittent top-wilty look might be normal, or at least not unusual, for Zolotoe Serdtse and Medovoe Serdtse, or, alternatively, whether they have some special environmental need/preference that might account for their intermittent display of this, when their neighbor plants, with essentially the same soil and light, and identical watering and feeding patterns, don't show anything of the sort.

August 11, 2014	#1
JLJ_ Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Wyoming Posts: 759	Serdtse, Zolotoe and Medovoe Just thought I'd see if anyone growing these could give me an idea if what I'm seeing is normal for these or not. (I know, pics would be useful, but I need pics for another purpose of plants in a much closer location and it's been on the "must do" list for some time . . . and if I got out to the Serdtses with the camera, the contrary critters would probably be in one of their not-odd-looking times, so I thought I wouldn't wait until I am able to get pics. What I'm seeing, in both Zolotoe Serdtse and Medovoe Serdtse, is an intermittent kind of wilty look in the leaves at the top of the plant -- not one or two leaves, perhaps leaves in the top quarter or top third of the plant. It first appeared perhaps a month ago. It doesn't really look like an illness -- and both plants are blooming and forming fruit happily, but this top-wilted look keeps appearing. I see it, then after I've watered or fed them, they seem better, which may mean that it's an indicator of water or nutrient deficiency, but in the same row in one direction the next plants are Sweet Ozark Orange and in the other, Fioletovyi Kruglyi, then Black Prince -- and all of those seem completely normal -- not having any fainting fits at all. It's different from the lighter sometimes "wispy" foliage that some of the hearts display . . . I have Anna Russians in the same garden (though not in the same row) which don't look like this -- though they are much bigger, also, which might mean that they are happier or might mean that the phenomenon is most conspicuous in smaller plants. Anyway, I was thinking of someone who said that they'd obeyed neighborly advice and pulled out their Anna Russians because they didn't realize that their "different" foliage look was normal for them -- so I began wondering whether this intermittent top-wilty look might be normal, or at least not unusual, for Zolotoe Serdtse and Medovoe Serdtse, or, alternatively, whether they have some special environmental need/preference that might account for their intermittent display of this, when their neighbor plants, with essentially the same soil and light, and identical watering and feeding patterns, don't show anything of the sort.