I have a hosta that shows brown spots on the leaves.?
Question:I have one hosta that has brown spots on the leaves. It started getting spots about a year or so after I planted it. This hosta is very big. It produces flowers every year so the plant seems to be thriving despite the brown spots on the leaves. What is wrong with it?
Answers:
I get brown spots on hosta that are getting too much sun. If you think it could be possible (if it's in the sun) dig it up and move it to a shadier location and see if that ends the problem.
Slugs eat holes in the leaves, they don't make brown spots. I have hundreds of hosta and can't say I've ever heard about any diseases with brown spots... I think it's simply from burning from too much sun.
And it would make sense that it flowers and grows, as burning from the sun doesn't hurt the plant, just makes them look bad. As a matter of fact, they grow even faster and bigger in the sun. But they will burn. Giving them lots of water sometimes helps if they're in the sun. I'd move it, and see what happens.
It could be slugs. I've heard that they can do havoc on a hosta. Try putting out a tin pan by it and poor some beer into it and see if you get any. They say they are attracted to the yeast or something in it. But anyway...it's cheaper to use than the slug bait that you buy in stores. They say they will drown in it?
it has cancer
Not sure what the brown spots are. Slugs will eat the leaves, but they just leave places on the ends where they eat. The slugs don't hurt the plant.
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