Santy

Hibiscus buds not developing

jean riley wrote (see)

Hi Santy,  Do you know which type of hibiscus you have?   There are two types - the hardy one and the tropical one Rosa Sinesis. Looking at your photo the leaves look very similar to the latter. Is it in a pot or in the ground ? If it is R. Sinesis it won't be happy outside at all. These are tropical plants and require a lot of heat. I put mine out on a hot sunny day (if we get one ! ) but other than that it lives in the conservatory.

If it is the tropical one and in a pot I would fetch it indoors as it will not be happy with all the rain. Hope this helps. Jean.

It's a Syriacus Marina.  It should be reasonably tolerant, although this crazy British summer is testing that to the limits I think.

Hibiscus buds not developing

Great stuff, thank you for the reply.  I've picked it off and thrown it away so fingers crossed the soil dries out...

Hibiscus buds not developing

Hello,

This is my first post in here, so apologies if it's already been covered but...  I bought a hibiscus recently and the flowers are beginning to develop but soon after starting to open they have begun to wilt.  One of them has now progressed to being covered in small white dots, similar to a fungus perhaps?

When I took a photo to upload to here I noticed a very small bug hanging around the bud so this may be the cause of the problem.  Any advice on how I can cure this will be greatly appreciated

Hibiscus buds not developing