{"id":3470,"date":"2013-06-13T01:39:24","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T08:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3470"},"modified":"2013-06-06T09:46:53","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T16:46:53","slug":"new-guinea-impatiens-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/pests-problems\/new-guinea-impatiens-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"New Guinea Impatiens Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2009 I reported on my failure with impatiens. now I am tempted to try again. So far so good no of them have died but nor are they a run away success.<br \/>\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3471\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/pests-problems\/new-guinea-impatiens-failure\/attachment\/ng-imp\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3471\" title=\"ng-imp\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/ng-imp.jpg\" alt=\"ng-imp\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/ng-imp.jpg 448w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/ng-imp-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I  had a disaster with New Guinea Impatiens 4 years ago. Rather than grow from seed I bought a pack of half a dozen plants to grow on. The only trouble is they haven&#8217;t grown on but got sickly and hardly survived.<\/p>\n<h3>Errors and correct treatment<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>I used a peat based compost to pot them into. I should have used a faster draining soil based John Innes No 2.<\/li>\n<li>The leaves have gone brown and limp because they were on a windowsill getting too much hot sun before they were strong enough. I should have given them less direct sun whilst young.<\/li>\n<li>Once or twice I must have let the soil dry out. New Guinea Impatiens must have moist soil at all times and I regret not standing them on some gravel to help humidity.<\/li>\n<li>I have not fertilized the plants but as they have barely grown in 6 weeks it is due to other health problems. Feed when growing.<\/li>\n<li>I have not got red spider mite &#8211; at least I have saved them from that problem.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I gave some of the lilac flowered plants away so\u00c2\u00a0 am interested to see if they have done any better. I also put some of my sickly plants in a plastic zip up greenhouse outside so I am now off to see how they have done.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New Treatments<\/strong><br \/>\nI corrected the above issues but watering still gives me nightmares.<br \/>\nI potted the plug plants on into 3&#8243; pots and they are more robust.<br \/>\nI like the plants when well grown as a summer houseplant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2009 I reported on my failure with impatiens. now I am tempted to try again. So far so good no of them have died but nor are they a run away success. I had a disaster with New Guinea Impatiens 4 years ago. Rather than grow from seed I bought a pack of half a dozen plants to grow on. The only trouble is they haven&#8217;t grown on but got sickly and hardly survived. Errors and correct treatment&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/pests-problems\/new-guinea-impatiens-failure\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-house-greenhouse-plants","category-pests-problems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}