Comments on my last post praising my alleged green thumb prompted me to be a little more honest about my indoor gardening skills. Many of my plants are doing really well right now but some of them, like those pictured above, are really suffering.
Last fall I moved all the plants back indoors after it got cold. Note that I said "after" not "before" it got cold. So a few of the less hardy ones were a little worse for wear after their summer growth spurt and subsequent frost damage. After they were inside, some of them thrived while others hated their new locations, plus I kind of neglected them at first.
The project efficiency NY resolution helped because I started watering really regularly. The ones that aren't mostly dead are quite happy, but there are a few with just a handful of green leaves left. I'm hoping they will hang on until May when I can move some outside and move the rest to better spots inside.
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Now those plants look like they could belong to me. :-)
That's so cool about your Dracaena flowering! I have one really pathetic plant that looks like some kind of Dracaena. I've had it for 2.5 years. I got it second-hand and the person warned me that she hadn't had much success with it. It kind of stayed semi-pathetic but now has only gotten worse in the past 8 months. I finally repotted it for the first time yesterday. I actually moved it into a smaller pot. It looks like the roots didn't really leave the root ball after it was transplanted into the big pot by the previous owner. I separated all the roots and I hope it will be much happier now. If it hasn't improved by the end of the summer I think I might be done with it.
Yesterday I repotted two plants and potted a bunch of cuttings (pothos and spider plant babies mostly). I've run out of pots so I'm going to see if I can get some from the university greenhouse pot graveyard. I'm so excited for spring! Soon I'll get to plant my window boxes.
I think they don't always make a much of a root ball. I repotted mine once and the roots just fell apart. Mine is in a smallish pot, but seems to like it. I've been watering it once a week (it dries between waterings and is not quite saturated just after) and it seems pretty happy. Oh, and I've fertilized it twice since February. Before that it had probably been a year or two since I added nutrients.
And yes, spring does seem to be coming after all! I'm just dying to buy flowers for my porch, but I know I need to wait another 6 weeks or so.
Mad Hatter: me too. Although most of mine have slightly more green than brown. I have a nice ivy (named Drip. As in IV Drip) at work that doesn't have any dead leaves at all! But then I've only had it since Christmas...
I don't have any plants because all my plants look wilted and brown after two weeks. I think I have a problem where I overwater my plants, and then freak out and go the opposite and underwater them. For some reason I can't figure out what the balance is.
:( so sad when the plants are wilty.
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