Hello,
Short version: bought a house with a nice single trunk crepe mrytle in the front. The flowers this year are light in color and brown after only a couple weeks. It had a really bad black sooty mold issue last year so I pruned it to thin it out mid/late winter, not crepe murder, and used bayer/bioadvanced shrub and tree in early/mid spring following the directions and verifying online. I don't think the main ingredient imidicloprid would cause this issue. Since this tree is in the front lawn which had a little fungus, bioadvanced hose attached lawn fungicide applied mid-spring, but that was a mild application, no way that caused this issue to still occur in Aug.
Any ideas why this is happening? the fungicide? the combo? im a moron?
Thanks for your help
Brown flowers on crepe myrtle
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Re: Brown flowers on crepe myrtle
Bad year, probably. I'm looking at the greenery, not the flowers, and that seems fine. If you made me guess, it's a fungus that nipped the flower buds and is eating the flowers, but isn't otherwise having too much of a negative impact on the rest of the plant--but I certainly am not sure.
Definitely keep an eye on things to see if it continues or the greenery discolors, but it would hardly be the first time there was a bad year for a crepe myrtle. They're not what I'd call the most stable or healthiest plants around.
I have one and have more bad years than good ones as I'm strongly pushing the limits on those here in Pennsylvania.
Definitely keep an eye on things to see if it continues or the greenery discolors, but it would hardly be the first time there was a bad year for a crepe myrtle. They're not what I'd call the most stable or healthiest plants around.
I have one and have more bad years than good ones as I'm strongly pushing the limits on those here in Pennsylvania.
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