What is happening to my petunias?
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Douglas Hunt on Mar 24, 2014Yellow leaves generally indicate a watering issue, but it's also possible you overfetilized them. The third issue is temperature. I'm not sure how warm it is has gotten there, but in areas where it gets hot, petunias are a cool-season plant and generally decline as the temperature increases.Helpful Reply
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360 Sod (Donna Dixson) on Mar 24, 2014I showed this picture to a bunch of grower friends and the general consensus is that your petunias need iron. This may be from over watering as Douglas Hunt suggests. The stickyness is a natural thing for Petunias. It was also suggested that you check for aphids on the underside of the leaves.Helpful Reply
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Katie on Mar 24, 2014I'd pinch them back and fertilize.Helpful Reply
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Maria C on Mar 25, 2014Thank you all you guys for your valuable help, let's go step by step, I've been watering more often since here in Vegas it's getting hot all ready ( 80 ) and also ave been pinching the flowers like every another day and they were doing wonderful flowering amazing, Douglas about the fertilizer I got coffe grains from Starbucks a few times and also horse manure from a friend of mine, will that be it ?Helpful Reply
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Maria C on Mar 25, 2014By the way they don't have bugs, I check that too,Helpful Reply
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Theresa Brown on Mar 25, 2014When you water....does it run through pretty quickly? Sometimes if they get too dry, you need to set them down into a sink, or large bowl of water for a few hours to give the plant and soil time to soak up as much as it wants. Try doing that 2-3 times a week.Helpful Reply
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Franki Green on Apr 13, 2016Aphids commonly attack petunias and can be causing the stickiness. Try soapy water spray or a bottle of greenfly spray. Those brown leaves just need to be trimmed away. I supposed there is plenty of soil there for those plants is there? And a bit of fertiliser?Helpful Reply
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