Seriously, I guess in your situation what I would do is remove every dead or damaged leaf and get it out of the full sun (unless your summer has been mostly rainy). It works for me every time, even with copy machines. Joan - I highly recommend the chicken-shaking thing. Posted by: emily moorefield - 6 ) on Tue, Jul 6, 99 at 17:02 Can anyone think anything else I can do? Has anyone else had this crisping of the buds and leaves? I've tried everything I can think of, including begging on bended knee, scowling at it, doing a voo-doo dance and shaking a chicken over it. There aren't a lot of leaves yet, and just that one unburned bud. Still, it sulks and continues to decline. Now I've moved it back to where it gets only some morning sun. Over the past several months I've mulched, given it Miracid, given it Epson salts, watered it with bottled water only, misted it once a day (actually I'm on the coast, so air should have enough moisture). (I've only got one bud left!) New growth looks pale and frail, so put in more sun. The buds are one by one getting crispy on the edges, *just* as they looked like they were thinking about opening. This spring it looked awful, and has continued to go downhill: yellow leaves (soil damp, so watered less), yellow leaves with green veins (so used Ironite, a few weeks later sprayed foliage with liquid chealated iron), leaves crispy brown on edges (so drenched to get rid of accumulated salts). I had it in shade with very late afternoon sun. Last year it bloomed-however reluctantly. Not too long after I got it, transplanted to a 10" (or maybe 12) terra cotta pot. Posted by Joan - CA-10 ) on Tue, Jul 6, 99 at 1:33 This is one of them, preserved for posterity. Every once in a while a thread takes a life of it's own and becomes infamous.
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