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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: mpdjulie on April 26, 2010, 09:00:43

Title: Yellowing leaves on sweetcorn
Post by: mpdjulie on April 26, 2010, 09:00:43
I have 24 sweetcorn seedlings in toilet roll tubes in my unheated greenhouse.  They are 4 - 6 inches tall.  Over the last few days some of the outer leaves of some of them have started to yellow.  I don't over water them but I have no clue as to why the leaves are turning yellow.  Otherwide the plants look extremely healthy.
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Title: Re: Yellowing leaves on sweetcorn
Post by: Jeannine on April 26, 2010, 11:03:04
How long since you planted them? XX Jeannine
Title: Re: Yellowing leaves on sweetcorn
Post by: mpdjulie on April 26, 2010, 11:47:58
28th March
Title: Re: Yellowing leaves on sweetcorn
Post by: Duke Ellington on April 26, 2010, 11:52:27
They might have used up all the nutrients in the compost.
Title: Re: Yellowing leaves on sweetcorn
Post by: nilly71 on April 26, 2010, 13:44:16
Mine have done the same but they are outside in the ground and not covered.

Neil
Title: Re: Yellowing leaves on sweetcorn
Post by: chriscross1966 on April 26, 2010, 13:47:23
Restricted roots?.... sweetcorn does not like beign potbound, really it should only be sown 3-4 weeks before planting out, and in my area (Oxford/Swindon) that means at the start of June or the very end of May if the ahead weathwer forecast looks OK... I'm not sowing mine until  the weekend for that reason....

chrisc
Title: Re: Yellowing leaves on sweetcorn
Post by: mpdjulie on April 26, 2010, 15:57:06
Thanks for replies - I think that I'll plant out but cover them with fleece as best as I can.