Yellow Confederate Jasmine Vine...HELP.

Hello all. I recently planted about 8 confederate jasmine plants in my new garden here in South Florida. When I purchased these plants at my local nursery, one of them wasn't as green as the others. It looked like the veins of the leaves were green but the outside of the leaves were yellowing.

At this point I didnt realize that the yellowing would be considered "clorosis." I planted the plants about 3 months ago and have since fertilized them and regularly water them about 3x's/week. All of the other plants are growing rapidly. It looks like the one yellow plant is not growing at all.

About a week ago, I added ironite to the soil/mulch. I'm hoping that this will green the plant up...Please let me know if you've got any ideas on what to do to save this jasmine vine.


Yellowing Jasmine ( photo / image / picture from DannyTroy's Garden )






Yellowing Jasmine ( photo / image / picture from DannyTroy's Garden )

 

Could it be a different plant? Or a variegated one. As I see it from here, it looks healthy to me.

 

I agree with Cal on this. That looks varigated, not clorotic. if it had a lack of iron the plant would be uniformly yellow. The ironite will not hurt your plant if it's not clorotic, just go easy on giving it any more.
I think the plant looks really healthy. Go back to your nursery and see if there are any more, maybe it was mislabeled or maybe you have a mutation going on in this one.

 

What you have is Trachelospermum jasminoides variegatum, which is variegated Confederate jasmine. Yours is healthy and a wonderful plant.
May I suggest that you dig it up and move it to another site? Confederate jasmine can get quite large, and in a couple of years will cover the window it is planted under. As a matter of fact, you might consider moving the ones on either side of the variegated one, also.
The garden area shown in the photo is beautiful!

 

Variegated Jasmine...never crossed my mind. It never came up in my research either. I'll just leave it alone and hopefully it grows as great as the others.

I don't want to move the vines under the window to another location b/c I want the uniform look along the wall of the garden. I made a trelis behind the plants and up the entire wall of the front of the house. I'm training the plants that are along the windows to grow sideways and then up around the windows. Once they are established, I will continually prune them to make sure that they stay out of the window.

Thank you so much of the ideas guys. I'm really glad that I joined this site

Here is another picture of that garden along with the other garden on the other side of the house.




East Garden ( photo / image / picture from DannyTroy's Garden )






West Garden 2 ( photo / image / picture from DannyTroy's Garden )

 

Welcome Danny.... everything looks so pretty! And I love that bright, sunny yellow your house is painted in.... so "cheery"!

 

I'm finally starting to see new growth from this Jasmine Vines. It has really started growing in the last week. It's weird b/c all of the other jasmine plants started growing about 2 months ago. I'm wondering if the ironite helped...hmmm.

 

Very possible. You have to take into consideration that all the green on your plant has to do all the work for the part that is variegated. the variegated coloring on your plant does not make the chlororphyl for the plant. only the green part can do this. therefore the amount of photosynthesis results much slower growth. You may need to fertilize this one more than the others. If I remember this correctly from waaaay back when I was in school. Maybe someone else will have more accurate information, but this is the gist of it.

 

Carolyn, what you're saying makes sense. I guess it worked out that the variegated vine is below the window. Growing slower here may not be such a bad thing.

 

I live in Florida and I have been looking for variegated confederate jasmine all over. No one seems to have it. Where did you get it?

 

It's been awhile now but I'm almost positive that I got it at one of the nurserys on Military Trail in Lake Worth. I forget the name of them but they're all on Military in between Hypoluxo and Melaluca. Hope that helps. Attached a pic of what it all looks like now, 3 years later.

 

Ok thanks. I guess I'll have to make a trip down there to look around

 

Jasmine August 2014 ( photo / image / picture from DannyTroy's Garden )



Here it is

 

Very nice job. Love all the color and curb appeal.

 

Thank you.