Forum: gardening.stackexchange.com
Tags: <diagnosis><leaves><morning-glory>
Title: What is happening to the leaves of my Ipomoea (Morning glory)?
Question: What could be the reason to cause this discoloration of the leaves? The discolored parts you see here get thicker over the time until the green color disappears. It does not seem that the leaves dry out as the right one on the photo feels quite wet.

Answers:
sents: text: You've said its on a windowsill which has full sun exposure (if there's any sun at all that is).
text: Can I ask if there's a radiator beneath the window, which is currently hot during the day?
text: Do you have double glazing?
text: Do you draw the curtains at night, leaving the plant between the curtains and the window?
text: What size pot is the plant in and how long has it been in that pot, and how tall is the plant currently?It's
text: just this still looks like cold damage to me - if the plant is in a heated room during the day, and is exposed to sun, then it's in very warm conditions indeed.
text: But overnight, when the heating is off, and it's dark, and particularly if its on a windowsill with curtains drawn, that's a very cold place to be indeed, even with double glazed windows, and our temperatures are unusually low in the UK for this time of year.
answer_details: author: gardening.stackexchange.com/users/1380/Bamboo
score: 4
sents: text: In my opinion, it could be a too calcareous soil, that causes chlorosis (leaves become white, then dry, then the plant dies) Try to give to it some Sequestrene iron chelate .
text: Very important to any type of plants, included cacti.
answer_details: author: gardening.stackexchange.com/users/2052/violadaprile
score: 3
sents: text: We don't have enough information to provide a definitive diagnosis.
text: Close up pictures would help.
text: Here are some possibilities: thrip
text: are common in greenhouses and indoor plants.
text: The adults are the size and shape of an explanation point !
text: They have wings and can spread from plant to plant.
text: They do the usual insect thing and suck juices from leaves.
text: But the kids..they do damage typical of what is seen in the photos because they live inside the leaf and tunnel through the tissue.
text: The adults leave black spots called "frass" on the underside of the leaf.
text: You should see frass, and if you do not disturb the leaf, you might see adults.
text: I have never managed to cure any plant of thrip even when I used systemic insecticides.
text: They are too hard to eradicate and the plant should be destroyed.
text: some kind of virus is a possibility but ipomoae are not known for this.
text: I could only find one reference for the sweet potato which is in the same family, and would not normally be susceptible unless the plant is weakened and there is source for the virus nearby
text: So, check for evidence and put up more photos please!
answer_details: author: gardening.stackexchange.com/users/499/kevinsky
score: 2
sents: text: This is caused by excessive drying.
text: I have seen this happen when Morning Glory vines found their way into a house and grew up to the window.
text: Even though the temperature didn't go under 65 degrees Fahrenheit (it was summer), every leaf inside the building developed the dead areas on the leaves, but outside they were fine.
text: I thought it was a humidity issue, but discovered a few red spider mites on the plants.
text: The drying effect of the mites plus the low humidity (they usually come together), causes the dry dead patches to form.
text: Note: The pictures below are of cold damage, not excessive drying.
text: Cold damage on morning glories comes as a blackening leaf collapse.
text: See the pictures below.
answer_details: author: gardening.stackexchange.com/users/419/J. Musser
score: 2
sents: text: I have similar problem with my chili plant.
text: Its seems like a fungus problem in the soil if other leaves are also getting the spots.
text: Change the soil entirely and check for root roth.
answer_details: author: gardening.stackexchange.com/users/15829/ALdo
score: 2

Summary of the answers:
It could be a fungus problem in the soil or that the room is too cold at night. The soil could also be too calcareous.
Its location could be too cold especially overnight, when the heating is off, and it's dark, and if its on a windowsill with curtains drawn. On the other hand, the soil could be too calcareous, which causes chlorosis. It could also be too dry or it may be a fungus problem in the soil if other leaves are also getting the spots.