Hi guys,
It's my first time posting here! I have a little container garden that gets a lot of full sunlight most of the day. I recently bought some oregano and rosemary and put them in a little pot together. They were fine for a bit but recently the oregano has gotten very sad. I thought it might be because my bf accidentally hung out his laundry to dry over them one night and that maybe the detergent residue burned them. But it's been slowly spreading to the new baby leaves and I'm wondering if it's a fungus or a sunburn. I have no idea how to tell. The leaves are pretty crispy. And the rosemary has been happy as a clam. Here's some images:
And here's the whole pot.
There are a couple branches of the oregano that are unaffected as you can see.
Thanks for all the help guys!
Looks more like a little transplant shock and maybe a little tip burn to me. If you cut off the damaged branches the new ones should come out fine. It is probably not a fungus since the other parts of the plant looks fine. Fungus would be spreading. My oregano doesn't really get much fungal problems, just problems when it gets too much water or the center dying when it isn't divided soon enough.
The tip burn is a common problem with container plants and has multiple causes. Transplant shock, too much or too little watering, a container that was is in the shade being taken out into the sun without hardening off first, too much fertilizer, chemical burn, hot and windy conditions. A pot that is just too hot. If the pot is too hot for you to hold then the roots are probably cooking a bit too.
The tip burn is a common problem with container plants and has multiple causes. Transplant shock, too much or too little watering, a container that was is in the shade being taken out into the sun without hardening off first, too much fertilizer, chemical burn, hot and windy conditions. A pot that is just too hot. If the pot is too hot for you to hold then the roots are probably cooking a bit too.
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Not true. While it's possible that if one purchased a large pot of oregano from a nursery it might contain several plants, all of my potted oreganos have been one single plant only, & they've all ended up huge. And as single plants, there's no "separating" them, as oreganos don't grow from rhizomes or anything that can be separated.Susan W wrote:An oregano pot is most always a number of plants/stems, not just one. Once these get up and a bit stronger, will want to separate to 2 pots.
And I can tell from the plastic plant labels in the OP's pot that the plants are purchased are most likely "Bonnie's Plants". They sell their oregano seedlings one to a pot.