Why is my Jasmine dying?

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This is the 2nd lot that's not made it. What am I doing wrong? Over or under watering? Wrong size pots? Wrong location (back garden, NW England, sunny spot)? Something else? At the point of giving up now and trying a clematis instead.

Pics incoming.

Success at last!

Probably needs plant food and water.

I would say that it’s not getting enough water in a pot. Can you plant it in the ground underneath the pot instead? It needs mulching to prevent water loss and a good feed.

The pot is too small.

The ground/soil is really shallow, so it can't be planted in the ground unfortunately.

It's quite a bit bigger than it appears in the photo but I still take your point, thank you.

It needs a much much bigger pot if you want to keep it in a pot! What do you mean by the ground/soil is very shallow? In my garden there was nice soil for a couple of inches then builders rubble and then there's the heavy clay. I just dug down through all the layers, added some manure, mixed it into the clay and planted my Jasmine in that. It's now about 2 meters high and 3 meters wide growing over my shed after 5 years.

They have a lot of foliage and are massively thirsty, particularly on warm, breezy days. Yours has not had enough water.

70L pot and give it some tomato feed. Also buy a moisture meter

It looks to be in a pot within a pot? Unless I'm misinterpreting the photo? It needs whatever that white thing is removing and planting wholly in the bigger pot (or ideally an evening bigger one)

It is! However, the first lot that also died were in just the one planter, so killing them off is a skill I didn't know I had!

Update...I've just been corrected...there's no bottom on the planter, so in theory, the roots can spread out in to the ground (planter is sitting directly on the grass). Does this make a difference or is the planter still too small?

You have it in a beige pot within a black planter.

If there is a bottom in the beige pot with just a few holes in it those holes are the only way the roots can get out into the soil. Your plant is fighting to get nutrients and water through those small holes.

You need to take the plant out of the beige pot and put it into the black planter at the very least.

If the bottomless black planter is sitting on grass on the lawn the few roots that make it through the holes in the beige pot are competing with the lawn for water and nutrients. Plants and trees mostly lose out to grass. Even if they survive they rarely thrive.

Here's your best bet. Get rid of both pots. Dig as big a hole as you can at least twice as deep and at least three times as wide as the black planter. That way your jasmine won't be competing with the grass. Fill that hole with good soil and compost/well rotted manure. Then plant the jasmine in that mix. Top up with well rotted manure every year. Water A LOT.

Healthy jasmine is going to get MASSIVE. You will need a trellis/tripod about three times the size of the one you have if your plant starts thriving.

One other thing. Was your previous jasmine in the planter in the same soil and place? If your previous jasmine died from some kind of wilt or fungal infection that might be in the soil and now killing your new plant.

Try all new soil in another place.

Pot needs to be bigger and loads of water, mine is in bud and I give it 8L water twice a week currently, one of these waterings is with added plant food

Can I jump in while jasmine experts are assembled - I have a history of killing jasmine in various environments.. from all the advice people have given here should I give up on my current ambition to have some in a pot on a balcony?

Yes, same position but in that same big oval planter (with a base). Thank you so much for your input. So helpful. Am a real novice (obviously!!).

Agree re bigger pot etc but you also need to give the foliage room to spread out, train it to climb a trellis or something. It’s looking very squashed on its current frame.
I’ve been watering mine every day for about a month already, it’s in its 3rd year and is growing really well now. It was a bargain from Lidl of all places 😁.

It needs to come out of the grey pot and needs untieing from the supports it came with. Put it in a much bigger pot. Cut off anything which is dead and tie it into the support you have put on and give it a good water and a feed. It will need watering with a lareg watwring can of water once or twice a week all summer. And that is why i hate pots!
The grey pot will be restricting the roots so it cant grow. Like a bonsai tree.
Rough the roots up a bit by seoerating thwm oit a bit with your fingers round the outside, when you remove the pot too because that will encourage root growth.

OP, you said earlier there is no base in the big oval planter and now you say there is. If there is a base in that planter does it have a hole in it at all? If not then when you water it and when it rains a lot you could literally be drowning the plant. The water needs to be able to run out of any pot you have a plant in outdoors.

Assuming your balcony gets some sun and isn't too exposed you should be able to grow jasmine. A nice big pot (with drainage), good rich compost to which you add some feed regularly and water well, but don't keep the compost soaking all the time and you should be fine. Star jasmine's a good choice for a pot.

Last year, it was in that big planter, which had a normal base. The Jasmine died. This year, it's the same planter but the base has been cut away.

Fungal root rot.

Water it ,needs loads not just one watering can full. Pick off all the dead leaves and feed it.