Crinum Lily issue

[byuind]

My wife got this one about 2 months back and we planted it as an anchor point next to some very tall palm trees.

 

fast forward to today and the leaves just seem to be dying and turning brown one at a time. My initial research indicates a fungus so I started treating it with copper fungicide about 3 weeks back but I am still seeing new brown edges forming on leaves. 
 

someone told me to trim back the affect leaves to the green points to avoid spread but still no luck.

 

any help would be great.

[Billeb]

Jim, are you sure it’s not as simple as a watering issue? That particular planter looks pretty saturated. I’ve found Crinum to be pretty much trouble free here in CA. I don’t actually irrigate them via drip like everything else but simply over the top “whenever I get around to it”. My neighbor gave me a bunch of seeds from his plants and told me to just throw em in the ground and forget about them. He was right. 
 

Re: leaves…I don’t think it will hinder the plant by trimming off the dead tips but I don’t think it helps either. I personally don’t mess with them unless they are way dead although tempted. 
 

-dale 

[Looking Glass]

I was thinking the same thing…. Too much water, or too cold a winter.  
Down here, these grow well in unirrigated sand.  I had one in a garden bed that I had to remove, as it got too big.   It was in rich soil, full sun, and I kept it pretty well watered with no issues.  
 

This one below gets no irrigation or fertilizer from my neighbor….  Blooms a few times a year  and gets suckers hacked off constantly to keep it manageable.  

[Merlyn]

My first thought was also "too much water, too mucky."  I have several around the yard, both the "Queen Emma" purple ones and regular green ones.  I don't water any of them, and they are all in loose sandy fast draining soil.  The only one that gets watered is a highly variegated Crinum Asiaticum.  It's in my nursery area in rapid draining soil mix and is fine with daily overhead spray.  So I don't know if the dense, wet soil is *really* an issue...but it might be!

[byuind]

Ok thanks for the replies!

 

1.) soil is very sandy, very quick draining. I did take the photo after an evening watering session. 
 

2.) very possible that its getting too much water (guess that’s a thing with some plants!) he’s right next to a big old royal that has been getting soaked every day to help recover from this winter.

 

3.) this guy was planted in late February so if it had a rough winter that was at the nursery (would assume not because it looked so nice when I bought it..

 

im in the middle of a huge project for my whole yard landscaping (organized chaos approach) and I am going to be running a ton of irrigation lines with calibrated heads for the plants. I’ll probably keep that one dry.

 

right now my wife does hose watering to pretty much everything- it’s her self-proclaimed therapy after a day of child herding (I mean raising). I’ll tell her to keep the water off that guy.

 

if this lily doesn’t like the water I’m not sure what to do since we know that this royal definitely wants obscene amounts of water