rhubarb help lots of help ?

[sunner]

hello all  ;D i grow some rhubarb from seed last year, and 3 did not come up this year so thought they had gone to the big allotment in the sky

Lucky enough i got 3 crowns gave to me this year as i was putting them in see the 3 that did not come up was still there looking good to me but no sign of life

so dug them up and toke them home thought i would  put in pots to see if i can get then going

anything i can do to help them get going  thanks for any help or should i just give up on them   :)










as you can see the rest came up ok

[sunner]

[rosebud]

An expert will be along any minute Sunner just hold in there ok. ;D ;D,

Where are you E J, OR TEE GEE.

[manicscousers]

hiya, sunner, welcome to the site..we dug some rhubarb up last year, cut it into chunks and planted it in black buckets, it's all doing well, I don't think it's easily killed, some of the bits we didn't plant are also putting new shoots out, on the flags  :o
I think we frightened it  ;D

[Tee Gee]

Can't see what I want to see from these pictures so can't really tell.

Can you see any growing points on them?

Or can you take a close up at the top of the roots as this is where they will be if there are any.

But if you don't want to go to the trouble of looking, I would suggest you give it a try in pots, and see what happens.

Treat it as a case of 'nothing ventured nothing gained'!

[Melbourne12]

We had some small rhubarb plants 2 years ago that didn't seem to come up last year.  I was going to throw them away but the roots looked firm so I put them in a pot in the back garden and within a few weeks little leaves started to appear and they have been fine since and gone back into the allotment.  So don't give up on them yet.

[calendula]

they look viable to me, i.e. not rotting which is the worst that could happen - as suggested I'd get them potted up, you can but try as TG wrote

[loopyloulou]

ive heard they like manure? orn rich compost? but having said that i moved some into a spot with some in and the ones i left in the not so rich soil are doing better... maybe they were bigger or it was because i moved them i just dont know, but id stick with putting them in pots and see what happens :D i thought id killed a tayberry but its come back, yay! and spotted lots of rhubarb growing in abandoned plots in the grass and where brambles have been growing over (recently cleared) so it must be fairly hardy? fingers crossed theyre just a bit sleepy xx

[Robert_Brenchley]

I'd put them back where they came from and wait a while. I had two clumps drowned by the waterlogging last summer, but there are little bits coming up from them now. They'll grow back, eventually.

[sunner]

Thank you all the help looks like i will pot them and hope

But i will take a pic of the growing points and post it on here t`mow cuz i cant see any life in them , for Tee Gee to see what ya think

And thank you all  :-*

just going to pust something about radishes help now so look out for that

got to love his site its like having Monty Don  on the end of the phone  ::)

[kt.]

Try here:
http://www.rhs.org.uk/Advice/profiles1105/rhubarb.asp

[dtw]

I grew some from seed last year, a few survived and they are doing ok.

[sunner]

Can't see what I want to see from these pictures so can't really tell.

Can you see any growing points on them?

Or can you take a close up at the top of the roots as this is where they will be if there are any.

But if you don't want to go to the trouble of looking, I would suggest you give it a try in pots, and see what happens.

Treat it as a case of 'nothing ventured nothing gained'!

hello and thanks hope this pic helps

[calendula]

on second thoughts they do look a bit rotten at the top, are they soft and squishy - I'd still try but how much rhubarb do you want

[Tee Gee]

Looks to me as if they have suffered from 'Crown Rot'

This is caused by a fungi which causes the rhubarb crown to rot. It tends to be more prevalent in heavy soils which are easily waterlogged i.e. holding excessive moisture.

This is further aggravated during the summer when the soil warms up i.e. it speeds up the rotting process.

Spores of this fungi are spread by either splashing water, rain or running water around infected soil and plants and quickly spread from infected to healthy plants by this means.

Now that have seen what I have seen I would get rid if only to avoid contaminating the other stock you have.

My advice for the future is be careful with the watering, in fact if the truth be known I never water mine I just rely on the mulch I have around it.

Dare I say it my rhubarb thrives on neglect I moved it last autumn and that is the only treatment I can recall giving it in over twenty years.

Had a look at the transplants yesterday and they are coming along fine so I guess thats them set up for another twenty years or more.

By the way; I said in the previous post 'plant it' but now that I have had a closer look, I will take back that advice.

Having said that........ at the end of the day...........the choice is yours!!

[Robert_Brenchley]

I never water mine, except with a bit of diluted human manure now and then. They're extremely deep-rooting, and they sailed through the drought two years ago when other things wilted or died. Leave them alone unless you're using liquid manure.