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What are creating those holes my my leaves
What bug eats them like that ?
I'm sorry for not clarifying more in my first post but I decided to do some research first, just to be sure.
My first thoughts about the damage is that a cat or large rodent will usually tear the leaves as well.
But what caught my attention is the center of the leaves when the fingers join, and how the ALL appear to be deformed.
That is typical of major over-watering, deficiencies, or TMV.
TMV will usually cause growth to be deformed and kinda twisted. It doesn't show any other tattle tail signs of TMV so with that eliminated: We're left with over-watering and deficiencies.
The holes out in the flesh of the leaves looks more like snail or slug damage. Except that there are none of the tiny drops of snail poop that they leave behind. And the slime trails a slug would leave don't appear to be present. At least not visible in the photos.
In my experience, if a snail or slug or even a caterpillar spends enough time on a plants to do that much damage, they leave behind trails and tiny lil black spots of poop.
I can't see any torn or shredded leaves like a cat would usually leave from chewing. A rodent or a rabbit, or even a deer would eat from the outer edges, or devour portions of the plant.
Eliminating predators it narrows the field to the obvious symptoms:
(although I do see a couple ares of light colored spotting that could indicate spider mites on the large leaf in the center and the smaller leaf far left below the cup.)
TMV: Can cause similar damage in severe or late stages. But TMV so severe would also be warping the veins of the leaves on new growth, and causing brown, burned looking areas on older leaves which look like a late stage Phosphorus deficiency. The dead areas will sometimes soften and wash or blow away leaving holes similar to those on your plants.
So that leaves nutrient deficiencies, over-watering or overdose:
The leaves are all curling under which is an indication of over fertilization.
The shriveled leaf indicates over-watering.
It does happen all the time where people get a deficiency in plants that are overdosing, and deficiencies and over-watering go hand in hand. But plants with deficiencies have leaves that curl up.
So like I said, the path of least resistance is the obvious. Follow the charts and the path of least resistance.
I think its just necrosis from a deficiency, What is the PH of the runoff?
idk what it is
i was just giving it plain tap water from my faucet
But its been transplanted in the ground off in the woods
so now its just gonna get rain water and creek water when needed