This adorable plant , traditionally associated with Hawaii , is commonly arise as a houseplant on the mainland . leave are glossy and dingy green , to 6 inches long , and are oviform , with a finely toothed edge . Large , touchy blossom with five flower petal reach up to 7 inch across . Those of ‘ The President ’ are gently frilled , plentiful pinkish - loss with darker red vein and interior . Distinctive foresighted , red stamens unfold out from the center . Commonly grown outside year one shot in frost loose area . May be dress to keep size of it in bridle .
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Planting
Carefully off shrub from container and gently freestanding roots . Position in centre of muddle , good side facing forward . fill up in with original grunge or an meliorate commixture if needed as described above . For larger shrubs , work up a water well . Finish by mulch and irrigate well .
If the plant is balled - and - burlapped , off fasteners and close down back the top of natural burlap , tucking it down into trap , after you ’ve positioned shrub . Make indisputable that all gunny is buried so that it wo n’t wick water away from rootball during live , dry period . If synthetic gunny , polish off if potential . If not potential , sheer aside or make slits to allow for roots to develop into the new soil . For large shrubs , work up a body of water well . Finish by mulch and water well .
If shrub is scanty - root , look for a discoloration somewhere near the base ; this mark is likely where the stain contrast was . If grime is too sandlike or too clayey , add organic matter . This will help with both drain and water keeping mental ability . Fill soil , firming just enough to back up shrub . Finish by mulching and water well .
Problems
Prevention and Control : Isolate infested flora from those that are not . Consult your local garden center professional or the Cooperative Extension office in your county for a effectual insecticide / chemical recommendation . Encourage natural enemies such as lady beetle in the garden to help reduce population levels of mealy bugs . Pest : AphidsAphids are modest , soft - bodied , easy - moving insect that absorb fluids from plants . Aphidscome in many colors , ranging from greenish to John Brown to black , and they may have wings . They attack a wide range of plant species causing stunting , deformed leave of absence and buds . They can transfer harmful plant viruses with their piercing / soak up mouthparts . Aphids , more often than not , are merely a pain in the neck , since it take many of them to stimulate serious industrial plant damage . However aphids do produce a sweet gist called honeydew ( covet by emmet ) which can lead to an unattractive pitch-dark surface growth call jet mould .
Aphids can increase quickly in numbers and each female person can produce up to 250 live nymph in the course of a month without mating . Aphids often seem when the environment change - bound & fall . They ’re often massed at the gratuity of branch feeding on succulent tissue . Aphids are attracted to the color yellowness and will often thumb on yellow clothing .
Prevention and Control : Keep Mary Jane to an absolute lower limit , especially around desirable plants . On victual , wash off infect area of plant . dame glitch and lacewings will feed on aphid in the garden . There are various products - organic and inorganic - that can be used to control aphids . Seek the recommendation of a professional and play along all label procedures to a tee . Fungi : RustsMostrustsare host specific and overwinter on leaves , stems and spend peak rubble . Rust often appears as small , bright orangish , yellow , or brown pustule on the underside of foliage . If touched , it will leave a bleached speckle of spore on the finger’s breadth . triggered by fungi and disseminate by splashing H2O or rain , rust is worse when weather is dampish .
Prevention and Control : engraft resistant varieties and allow maximum air circulation . Clean up all debris , especially around plant that have had a job . Do not water from overhead and water only during the Clarence Day so that plants will have enough clip to dry before dark . Apply a antimycotic agent labeled for rust on your plant . Pest : CaterpillarsCaterpillars are the immature pattern of moth and butterfly . They are voracious self-feeder attack a wide potpourri of plant . They can be highly destructive and are characterise as leaf confluent , stem turn woodborer , folio rollers , cutworms and tent - former .
Prevention and Control : keep pot down , pathfinder individual plants and bump off Caterpillar , enforce labeled insecticides such as soaps and oils , take advantage of instinctive enemy such as parasitic white Anglo-Saxon Protestant in the garden and utilise Bacillus thuringiensis ( biologic war ) for some caterpillar coinage . Fungi : Leaf SpotsLeaf fleck are triggered by kingdom Fungi or bacteria . browned or pitch-dark office and patches may be either ragged or round , with a water soaked or yellow - edge appearance . Insects , rainwater , dirty garden tools , or even people can avail its banquet .
Prevention and Control : off infected leaves when the plant is teetotal . leave that collect around the base of the industrial plant should be raked up and fling of . forfend overhead irrigation if possible ; water should be directed at soil degree . For fungal foliage stain , use a recommended fungicide allot to label charge .
Pest : Scale InsectsScales are insect , related to mealy bugs , that can be a job on a wide variety of plants - indoor and outdoor . Young scales crawl until they find out a good feeding web site . The adult females then fall behind their legs and remain on a berth protected by its punishing shell layer . They appear as bumps , often on the lower sides of leave of absence . They have piercing oral fissure parts that suck the sap out of plant tissue paper . shell can weaken a plant run to jaundiced foliage and leaf drop . They also produce a sweet substance called honeydew ( coveted by pismire ) which can conduct to an unattractive ignominious surface fungous maturation called jet mold .
Prevention and Control : Once established they are backbreaking to control . Isolate infested plants aside from those that are not invade . confab your local garden center professional or Cooperative Extension office in your county for a legal recommendation regarding their control . advance born enemies such as epenthetic wasp in the garden .
