Saving a fuschia!
Loganberry Hut
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I've been given a dead fuschiA.(mrs Popple, according to the label)
It looks dead to me, grey and dry and the ends, totally bare, and in a sorry looking state. I scratched back just a little below the grey ends and there is definately bright healthy looking green underneath. It's only little. About 12'' tall, and in a big pot. My neighbour bought it last year and said that it never really did much. He was chucking it so I offered to reHome it. Is it salvagable?
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Hi, I cut mine back in spring, breaks from the bottom (Genii)
If you've got green you can revive it!
Re pot, good compost, prune to about 6", cold frame for now, new shoots, in a few weeks if in a cold frame, a weak feed at first, when it gets going feed some more and you should get a decent plant for the summer.
I have a few hardy fuchsia's in a cold frame from cutting I took in the autumn, they are still in leaf and doing really well, so with a bit of tlc it should race away in a few months.
As it didnt do anything much last year, I would give the compost a good check over for vine weevil, they love fuchsia's.
I also suspect the poor thing has been over potted - plants dislike going into a pot which is too big for it. If you do see signs of life, and with green wood I think you will, give it a smaller pot, fresh compost, no too much water and wait - it will do fine I strongly suspect.