Questions tagged [indoors]
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Which Fertilizers to use?
I have a Gardenia, anthrium and peace lily indoors.
For my other plants, I use NPK (7+3+6) for the green plants, NPK (3.5 + 6 + 6 ) for blossom plants and another NPK(4+1.5+4) for all purpose.
My ...
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what is the yellow/tan thin crust on both of ceramic pot holding an indoor palm plant
I have a large palm plant in my office in a ceramic pot which drains into a matching ceramic dish.
Recently, a thin yellow or tan crust have formed on the planter right at the bottom. I can remove it ...
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Help! What is wrong with this Coleus? Overwatered? Underwatered?
Not entirely sure this IS a Coleus plant so apologies if I'm getting it wrong from the start! Currently housesitting for a friend and while it was looking a little limp when she left, it's taken a ...
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Indoor cat palm is dying
I bought a cat palm about a month ago and after about 2 weeks it started showing some yellowing and then browning. I'm an indoor plant noob so I can't tell if this is due to over watering or ...
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This plant doesn’t want to stay alive
I have searched everywhere. It was given to me by a friend who kept almost killing it. Consequently, I keep almost killing it too because I can’t figure out what it is or how to care for it. There ...
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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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Tomato plants: together or separate and replant?
I am growing some tomato plants indoor this season. I always burry 2-3 seeds together just in case one does not sprout. Each pellet containes the exact same species of plant.
Can the tomato plants ...
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My Cat ate the top and many of the leaves of my Oak Sapling; advise on how to stimulate growth
I have been growing some indoor plants as a project with my son, including a small oak sapling that grew in a planter we had outside during the summer. One of our cats, for reasons unknown, ate the ...
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Can I grow two poinsetta in one pot?
About a month ago I bought a poinsettia plant to keep in inside my home
After a couple of day's I found that maybe I am doing wrong care that is affecting my plant, thus went through a couple of ...
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Co2 enrichment with exhale bags
I’m intending to try co2 enrichment with Exhale bags.
And from reading on the co2 enrichment I understood that photosynthesis does not play a role during night time and the plant actually emits co2.
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Growing tomato's and other plants inside
I've always started the garden season late and I want to change that! I figured I could start seedlings now growing them as indoor plants until April even though it's a little early to start inside.
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Fertilized reservoir for automated watering system
I would like to move forward and install an automated watering system for my home plants that grow in growing tent.
Today I’m watering x3 times in a week, each watering is for 4liters of fertilized ...
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Potted tulips are drying up
This is the first time I bought tulip bulbs and I kept them inside, beside the window.
Recently I got flowers.
But, the flowers are there for only 2-3 days before they started drying up.
Is this ...
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Please help me identify this houseplant
I’ve had this plant for about two years and it grows so well in our sunny office window. I don’t know what it is and it’s getting tall that it droops. Should I be tying it up? Should I be trimming it? ...
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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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Why is my Areca palm dying
I've bought this Areca palm in Ikea about a month ago. It was doing fine for a week or so, and then, suddenly, leaves started turning yellow, then black. At first I thought it was normal, since only ...
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What should I do with a secondary shoot on my lemon plant?
I’m growing a lemon plant indoors. After I planted the seed, two shoots came out of the seed. At first I thought the larger one would overwhelm the smaller and the smaller one would die. Growing it in ...
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Will a punctured stem harm my pepper plant?
The stem of one of my potted plants was slightly chewed on by a cat. Nothing that would seriously damage the structural integrity of the plant, but it did puncture the surface with a few small tooth ...
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How to create an indoor gardening?
I'm looking to build an indoor garden to grow lettuce, basil, maybe tomatoes etc..
I have numerous questions :
Are smart gardens a viable options ? (In terms of electricity cost and harvest ...
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Getting rid of fruit flies on in-door pot with peas
I have a rectangular pot with soil where I have attempted to grow peas.
For some reason (I'm not fully certain, probably over-watering) that pot became a breeding ground for fruit flies.
I have read ...
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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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Should I re-pot these coffee plants?
I recently picked up a coffee plant from my supermarket's garden center. In fact, it appears to be made up of 6 distinct plants (they are quite young), planted in very close proximity in a small 5" ...
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What are these black/brown patches on my corn plant
I recently purchased a large dracaena fragrans, collquially "corn plant." Its stalk is approximately 1 meter tall. I keep it indoors, in front of a north facing window (probably not ideal, but at the ...
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What is a good replacement for Click & Grow “Smart Soil”?
I was given the 9-pod click & grow (https://www.clickandgrow.com/) as a gift, shipped to Australia. Somehow it made it past customs and I've started the growth cycle for the starter pack of seeds, ...
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Scraggly tangled Monstera
I purchased a Monstera from a coworker. She said it’s grown new leaves nonstop but I don’t know what conditions it lived in before. I now have it next to a large east facing window (unfortunately, my ...
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Tomato Plants indoors over the winter
Here is a picture of my tomato plants on my south facing window in the UK. I started them far too late from seed, I guess I planted them in about July. By the time winter came they weren't anywhere ...
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Why is my plant turning white/yellow
It’s winter here in Quebec city, and I feel like my plant is slowly dying. At first I thought it lacked sun, do I putted it on the windows border, but the furnace in just below so it might have dry ...
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Calathea advice needed
can anybody help me with some advice on how to revive this calathea? Since autumn [here in the UK] it hasn't been doing so well. It's in a fairly bright spot, an hour or so of fairly direct light. I ...
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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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Identify potted plant
We have this potted plant indoors that we bought in a garden shop about a year ago. It is now getting sick, so I am trying to research how to treat it. However, first I would like to know which ...
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What is this house plant (looks a bit like rocket salad, but succulent)?
I got this plant from a colleague couple of years ago and she said she didn't know how it was called, supposedly "stag horns" or something, but it's definitely not stag horn fern.
It can grow really ...
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How should I take care of this succulent?
Please guide me in how to take care of the succulent shown in image below. I took this picture when I got it.
It was dead in a few days, so I got a new one of the same kind. It also died. I gave it ...
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How to fix my indoor potted avocado plant?
MY plant history:
Tree planted 2 years ago.
Once I cut the tip, so that plant branched.
Some time later I cut those two branches again.
New stems appeared, but after some time, something happened to ...
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What type of Sansevieria is this?
Does anyone know what type of Sansevieria is this? The foliage looks like Sansevieria Cylindrica, but I have only seen starfish shape or straight-up shape before. The layering of foliage looks a bit ...
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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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Where to prune an indoor avocado tree?
I want to prune my indoor avocado tree to increase branching, and make it more bushy, not just one wobbly stem. Where should I cut it?
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How to branch out rubber tree
I am new to this site and I already got some great information. I had this rubber tree for a few years now. It has not been re-potted. I would like it to branch out a little bit.
What would be best ...
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What is this disease is this on my basil and mint?
I have a mint and a basil right next to each other.
First the mint and then the basil developed a similar leaf disease.
Any advice is appreciated.
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Indoor lucky bamboo
I was given a small stalk and now it is in gravel in a Ball jelly canning jar.
How do I care for it, when do I transplant, do I put it in soil or gravel, and how to properly water it? Currently it is ...
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Is my rubber plant unhappy?
I bought this ficus a week ago. Already one leaf has dropped and another has these weird spots – but at the same time one new leaf has come through green and another looks to be on its way.
Are the ...
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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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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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My dog removed my yucca's bark, what to do
I bought a yucca palm yesterday, and when I woke up today I saw that my dog bit the plant's bark on one side.
The yucca's trunk is about 80cm, the highest leafs are at about 180cm and the trunk has a ...
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Do plants need to be re-hardened after being brought back inside?
I have ~2 month old bell pepper and heirloom tomato plants that have been spending the last month outdoors in full sun. Unfortunately I'm leaving on a 10-day trip, and will be keeping them watered ...
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Areca Palm's leaves are drying. What should I do?
I bought a small areca palm 3 months ago.
I noticed some leaves are drying out and dying. The others is drying as well.
My palm is indoors in the apartment's lobby. The temperature inside is around ...
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Does my bay tree need plant food?
I have a small bay tree indoors in a pot. It's next to a large, north-facing window with a minor draught coming from it but thankfully the cold in winter doesn't seem to come in too badly.
The tree ...
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Why are the leaves on my young avocado tree drooping?
This young avocado tree was grown from an avocado seed and is about 6 months old. I live in Tucson, Arizona and keep it inside my house by a south facing window. There's no direct sunlight in this ...
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Why is my avocado plant dying with brown, decaying leaves?
A few years ago I grew an avacado plant from some seed and some time later leaves started turning brown and fell from the plant. I tried a lot, but landed on the thought that perhaps since it has ...
