Dying Water Hyacinth

[stricks760]

In March I bought some robust WH with big, green leaves. It slowly shrunk
down to tiny-leaved, mostly brown, ugly stuff -- which I pulled out and
threw away last weekend.

Why would this stuff be dying? I have a water lilly that's doing great &
duckweek, watercress, canna, umbrella plant, water celery -- no problem.

Any ideas?

[joe]

Where do you live? In San Diego mine mostly survives the winter, but in
spring new shoots appear and many of the older plants do what you are
describing. Maybe you got last years stock.

Joe


On 5/25/04 1:43 PM, "stricks760" > wrote:

> In March I bought some robust WH with big, green leaves. It slowly shrunk
> down to tiny-leaved, mostly brown, ugly stuff -- which I pulled out and
> threw away last weekend.
>
> Why would this stuff be dying? I have a water lilly that's doing great &
> duckweek, watercress, canna, umbrella plant, water celery -- no problem.
>
> Any ideas?



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[Steve J. Noll]

On Tue, 25 May 2004 20:43:43 GMT, "stricks760"
> wrote:

>In March I bought some robust WH with big, green leaves. It slowly shrunk
>down to tiny-leaved, mostly brown, ugly stuff -- which I pulled out and
>threw away last weekend.
>
>Why would this stuff be dying? I have a water lilly that's doing great &
>duckweek, watercress, canna, umbrella plant, water celery -- no problem.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>

Is there any salt in the water?

Steve J. Noll | Ventura California
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Jim

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"stricks760" > wrote in message
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> In March I bought some robust WH with big, green leaves. It slowly shrunk
> down to tiny-leaved, mostly brown, ugly stuff -- which I pulled out and
> threw away last weekend.
>
> Why would this stuff be dying? I have a water lilly that's doing great &
> duckweek, watercress, canna, umbrella plant, water celery -- no problem.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>

[Benign Vanilla]

"stricks760" > wrote in message
ink.net...
> In March I bought some robust WH with big, green leaves. It slowly shrunk
> down to tiny-leaved, mostly brown, ugly stuff -- which I pulled out and
> threw away last weekend.
>
> Why would this stuff be dying? I have a water lilly that's doing great &
> duckweek, watercress, canna, umbrella plant, water celery -- no problem.

When my WH strat to shrivel a bit, I dose with potash. That always seems to
help them along.

BV.

[~ jan JJsPond.us]

Fish eating roots
Too high or low a pH >8.6 <6.5
Not enough fish poo
Constantly in the shade. ~ jan
(Do you know where your water quality is?)