Questions tagged [indoors]
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Avocado indoor tree wilting
I am not sure why this is happening, some information the top 2cm soil is cocounot soil, the soil beneath I believe is just normal indoor plant potting soil.
This is the pot, about 26cm wide and 23cm ...
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Variegated monstera cutting propagation
I have a variegated Monstera cutting (shown below). I want to promote root growth so it can be potted. I live in Australia, currently going into spring.
The cutting was left out for a day and a half ...
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Is there an ideal drainage to soil layer ratio in terrarium etc.?
The question is about the size, ratio and composition of the drainage and soil layers in some improvised terrarium. It's made out of a 8'' (20cm) truncated/shaved off glass sphere (basically a cookie/...
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What disease is affecting my Dypsis lutescens?
I received this Dypsis lutescens (palm) plant as a gift last spring, it had only two leaves and it was potted in nursery soil with sand. Recently I have noticed that the outer leaf started to form a ...
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Why Did My Maidenhair Fern Die Overnight?
I'd a maidenhair fern for 3 months that was thriving, very lush, seemed healthy. One morning nearly all its leaves shriveled. Most were still green, but several shriveled leaves near the root had ...
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Help me identify this random plant sprout
This plant started growing in the pot of a small Jade Plant I received about two weeks ago. I the Jade in store bought dirt that I purchased well over a year ago and had stored in Ziploc bags. It also ...
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Why is my pepper plant suffering?
My pepper plant, which is planted indoors in a 31cm Ø pot, has been suffering increasingly over the last few weeks to months. I've had the plant since the end of May, and it seemed pretty happy in the ...
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Newly Delivered Indoor Areca Palm Browning, Withering, Yellowing, Dying Leaves
I received an Areca Palm from Bloomscape about two weeks ago. It doesn't seem to be doing too well. I've cut off around 15 fronds at the base that have withered, yellowed, browned, and died.
I've been ...
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Why is my otherwise healthy indoor meyer lemon dropping so many leaves?
I have a meyer lemon tree indoors that appears very healthy except that it is losing all its leaves. As such, I'm worried that it's actually dying. I've checked the other answers on Gardening SE ...
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What are these tiny bugs that kill my Monstera leaves?
My Monstera has pale specks on the leaves. I noticed it on one leaf first, and it's slowly spread to others. I have also noticed tiny black specks, about the size of a grain of sand, that I think may ...
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Kentia Palm Yellow Stems
My Kentia Palm bought 6 weeks ago has started developing some yellow stems with leaves darkening and somewhat drying and contracting (see images below). It started on a small bunch of stems a few ...
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What's wrong with my indoor Areca palm with leaf blight?
I just received a small areca palm (about three feet high) in the mail that has some leaves showing signs of stress. Could someone help me identify the culprit? I'm wondering whether I could address ...
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Giving Miracle Gro fertilzer to prayer plant
The instructions on the Miracle Gro package says "Mix 1/4 tsp in 0.5 gallon water". Yet, the prayer plant (Maranta leuconeura) needs very little water every day (if at all) and fertilizer once every ...
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Indoor avocado plant - What is wrong with the leaves?
I have this avocado tree which i have taken care of since i planted a stone, and it started growing. The plant is around two years old now and for a lot of the time i have had issues with the leaves "...
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Little light-green / yellow spots on my avocado plant leaf
So, basically I have this avocado plant that I grew from a seed a year ago.
It is progressing really great. Planted in pot and staying indoors, located near direct afternoon sunlight.
I had this ...
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Trim water damaged leaves?
I had a plant which was in too low of light and not sufficient drainage. After repotting with better soil and good drainage new leaves are coming out and soil is drying up nicely between watering. ...
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Why did my Indoor plants die?
I had five house plants, one of which was 38 years old. One was a vine which was hardy. I also had two spider plants and a large tree type of plant that has rooted stems. Will look for pictures and ...
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What can cause a Gasteria leaf to suddenly shrivel and turn greyish brown?
I have three succulent plants that I believe are Gasteria. One leaf in one plant has suddenly shrivelled and turned pale greyish brown. Sorry, no matter how I try, the colour in the picture is not ...
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How to maintain indoor Polyscias fruticosa
I have a little plant of Polyscias fruticosa in my living-room. It is about 1 m tall and more then 10 years old. It is not exposed to direct light.
Last year it started to look a bit painful and, ...
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Potted indoor olive tree with browned, curled, and dried leaves and branches. I need help. How to revive?
In November, I bought a 1.80m potted Olive Tree to keep inside my London flat.
Pot diameter 20cm.
Location By to a south-facing floor-to-ceiling window. Occasionally, I move it from the side of ...
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Avocado tree wilting indoors
My indoors avocado plants have been looking worse and worse over the past couple months, even though they are receiving plenty of sun (summer in Australia).
Their leaves have been drooping, becoming ...
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Lemon tree dropping healthy leaves
I have read a number of posts on the same topic, "healthy" lemon tree dropping leaves, here, here, here, here, here, and even this post from my same city (Vancouver). The general guidance ...
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Some questions about sowing/growing timothy grass (in pot / indoor)
I'm going to sow and grow timothy grass (Phleum pratense) in a pot (in a lab) with a controlled environment (to make some scientific measurement).
But I know nothing about growing plants.
So, my ...
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Treat thrip on houseplants
I diagnosed these little guys as thrips as you could see them and the typical silvery trails in the leaves where the immature thrip live. They had spread to the ivy and philodendron plants inside the ...
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Overcrowding vinca leaves. Any idea?
I have a pot of vinca I took inside for winter. It receives light from aero garden (which I’m not using to grow herbs right now) and indoor temperature is about 70-74 degrees.
I’m noticing that ...
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Can an indoor Birds of Paradise thrive in gardening soil?
I bought gardening soil by accident and I have a beautiful and large BoP that I'm repotting. I am curious if gardening soil will be OK for this plant.
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Bird of Paradise leaves dying/drying out with central pallor
Photo 1 was presumably from a spider mite infection that was (hopefully) resolved, but this past week a newer leaf started to deteriorate (photo 2). I water it when it completely dries out in the ...
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What are these weird white spots and black spots on my Monstera?
I used a microscope on one of those black dots and took a picture.
I also found this insect that looks suspicious.
I don't know if the white spots are related to the black dots.
What can I do?
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Browning on indoor potted cherry tree leaves
I have a cherry tree that I've grown from seed indoors in a pot, and it's showing some significant browning on its leaves. It has lost a few leaves this way already, and I thought it was perhaps just ...
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How can I get my mushroom kit to finally fruit?
I've never grown mushrooms before, but I bought a Herbal Since Ling mushroom kit 6 weeks ago. It consist of a plastic miniature greenhouse and a substrate block. The substrate block was covered all ...
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Grow lights for indoor houseplants in a low-light living room
I have several houseplants situated on shelves in my ground-floor living room. The light from the window is quite diffuse and doesn’t reach them well. Considering winter and generally bad weather, ...
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What window should I grow my San Pedro Cactus?
I have a baby San Pedro cactus and I'm wondering if I can grow it indoors in a west facing window. I live in the UK and the cactus seems healthy, it's only about 5-6 inches tall.
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What is eating my vine?
I’m trying to figure out what is getting at my indoor vine plant. I’ve never seen bites like these before, but found them after a week away on holiday. What do they look like to you? I have a couple ...
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Can apple trees be made evergreen?
Is it possible for an apple tree to become evergreen under particular conditions?
I'm asking because I've seen an in-door apple tree that for over an year hasn't lost leaves.
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Avacado leaves browning, new leaves wilting
Ive been growing three avacados from pit for about 2 years indoors, they’ve done well but recently two have developed brown spots in between the “veins” one I decided to replace with a different plant ...
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Tobacco Plant Seeds
Hi my mum ordered some tobbaco seeds for me I was wondering if they will survive on my windowsill in uk temperature or will it need a hydroponic light? Or some way of getting more heat as they ...
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Indoor lemon tree has yellowing and falling leaves
My indoor lemon tree was doing just fine and had a beautiful bout of growth, some branches developing huge leaves and up to 10in in new growth. I've had it for about a year.
However, several leaves (~...
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White coating on bottom side of pepper leaves
I just noticed this white coating on the bottom side of a few leaves of my pepper plant. I can not wipe it off. Is this some kind of fungal disease or some pest?
Edit: I made some more images using a ...
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Best wavelength mix for an indoor LED grow light used to grow basil
I want to grow basil. A lot of it.
Unfortunately the winter is coming, and my plants won't be able to survive outdoors. Beeing an electronics engineer, i decided to DIY an indoor growbox, so that ...
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Type of lights needed for desert terrarium
What type of lighting would work best for a desert/drought plant set up in an 8x8x8 terrarium without a top?
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Why is my passion fruit's leaves are yellow? Is it dying?
I've bought a plant of passion fruit.
Recently I've changed the ground of it.
Several days ago the leaves began to be yellow and curled up.
The photos are below.
Could you please give an advise how ...
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Distance and spacing of LED growlights for propagation
I am planning to make an indoor propagation setup which consists of
h:30cm x w:40 x L:50cm recycled polystyrene boxes and full spectrum LED panels. Clearly, the biggest limitation is height in this ...
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Gardenia Buds dropping
I brought a gardenia from store few weeks back.
It looked very healthy.
However, live in northern Germany and here winter days are really small and 95% of the time, it is extremely cloudy.
The ...
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Fiddle fig transplant cutting and rooting
So I have a 7ft fiddle fig plant that I purchased around six months ago. It grew around 5 feet since I got this and I would like to transplant it into the pot that you can see in the picture next to ...
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Curly avocado leaves
Morning, everybody! I was hoping you could help me with my little avocado plant. Its' leaves started to curl up. I thought it was from overwatering, but now I only water it once a week and it still ...
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Devils ivy plant leaves are growing with a cut in them; what can I do to prevent it?
How can I fix my devils ivy plant? It's growing fine but the new leaves are getting cracked or have a cut in them. I'm looking for suggestions.
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What caused this yellow speckles and shrinking?
The plant is Arabian Jasmine Sambac.
Is this caused by too much heat? Ambient temp in Delhi these days is 43C
This was growing all fine. It developed numerous green buds and was growing just like a ...
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I cut my avocado roots too much
I have a 4year old avocado plant which is about 5 feet tall. Recently I cut the roots in attempt to thicken the stem, but I think I took way to much off and now it doesn't look too well. Stem is ...
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What is this plant? - indoor not growing well
I have had this plant for a while but have no idea what it is.
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Ivy- my indoor Ivy is dying from the roots- I think it could be root rot
My indoor ivy plant grew pretty big, then my mum decided to shorten it by quite a bit and it started dying…
we put it into more sun but it kept dying. We only have one half-dead stem left! It’s dying ...