Questions tagged [plant-care]
General tag for questions on plant care. Use it along with more specific tags related to plant care whenever possible.
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Does it make a pure utilitarian sense to have indoor plants for dark rooms solely for the purpose of purifying the air?
My goal is not to decorate the interior, but simply to purify the air. I wonder if having plants is the cheapest option to purify the air.
My concerns are as follows:
My bedroom is rarely lit, and ...
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Should I not have repotted this Guiana Chestnut a few weeks ago? New small leaves emerge, but also more yellow too. What am I doing wrong?
I repotted this plant into a much larger pot, with indoor potting soil around 4 weeks ago. About 1 week after the repotting, I noticed some of the leaves started to yellow. At the same time, some ...
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Will vegetables or fruit contain microplastics in near future similar to microplastics in seafood?
I see that ocean is full of plastic and that causes plastic to be in seafood.
So my question is:
If intentionally or non-intentionally plastic is introduced into soil, could that lead to plastic ...
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Will my tobacco plant survive indoors under this grow light?
Hi I'm trying to grow tobacco indoors but they have not come up yet. I'm currently on day 2 I'm using a clip on 40w led grow light. Will this be enough for them to grow? I have a link of the model
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What are the dark, dry spots spreading over my rubber tree (ficus elastica)?
My rubber tree has started to exhibit these weird spots under the leaves, it started maybe three months ago, but it took me a while to notice them really. They seem to be spreading from leaf to leaf ...
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Adopted houseplant, need help with identification and care instructions
I adopted this plant (see image below), but I don't know the name or how to care for it. I live in Dublin with limited sunlight but I have the plant by the window to give it the most amount of direct ...
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Dragon Fruit developing translucent areas which then turn tan/white
I have two dragon fruit plants which were started from healthy cuttings. The new growth segments have developed an odd thing which I can't figure out when reading up on problems and diseases. Along ...
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Caring for an outdoor loofah during the winter
This is the first time I'm growing a loofah plant. I'm not sure what to do with it during the winter. It gets fairly cold where I'm at(frost in the mornings, no snow) and I have read that people bring ...
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How to use pots without drainage holes that have an attached saucer
I grow succulents. I have a pot that has an attached saucer (it cannot be removed). I grow succulents. Should I put a drainage hole through the saucer and the pot? What is the purpose of this saucer?...
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Rescuing this indoor plant?
This is a neighbor’s plant that I’m trying to rescue.
The 1st picture is what it looked like before I brought it to my apartment. The picture’s about a month old.
Today the hanging pot broke. The 2nd ...
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Growing my mint plants and I need help
How do I know when my chocolate mint plant and cocktail mint plant is ready? Help please
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My lily of the valley plant is turning brown -- is this a normal part of the cycle or an I doing something wrong?
So my dad recent sold my childhood home, but before he did, I gathered a few of the lilies of the valley plants we had in our garden for sentimental reasons. I replanted them in a pot as I live in an ...
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Canna turning brown and yellow HELP
My plant has a few leaves turning yellow and brown. This happened after I watered it this weekend, help!! I really love my plant, what should I do?
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How to "clean up" a garden after everything has flowered?
Newbie question here. I am a first-time gardener; last year, I bought a house with a beautiful garden and I fell in love with the flowers, so I'm trying to learn how to take care of it.
Over the ...
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Does my umbrella plant need to be trained?
I’m not planning to size up the pot for my umbrella plant, I’m happy to keep it at this size and let it fan out. However I’m not sure if the branches will just get longer and less manageable (they’re ...
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Baby Tomato plant - how to care for it
I’ve been gifted this gorgeous baby tomato plant and would appreciate advise/tips on how to care for it?
I’ve read online that you should cut leaves off to encourage fruit growth however i’m unsure ...
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Areca Palm - Browning / dying leaves
I bought my first Areca palm around 2 months ago and it seems to be dying. Almost all the leaves are browning or have brown tips.
I previously was misting it every day and watering every couple of ...
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Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow Plants don't produce flowers
I have a hedge of yesterday, today, tomorrow plants which hardly have any flowers. All trees are over 1m tall, bushy, healthy and beautiful. But no flowers!
This is in Brisbane, Queenslands.I went to ...
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Brown Spots on Lotus Leaves
I’m a new Lotus plant mom and I haven’t a clue what I’m doing.
I live in Thailand so it’s hot and humid. Bought the plant last week.
The water evaporated (not entirely!!) but enough to kill 2 buds and ...
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Chilli plant leaves droop during the day and is up during night
My chili plant leaves droop during the day and the leaves are all up at night. I water the plant enough and have cross checked for any bacterial infection. The soil also consists of vermicompost and ...
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Why is my apple seedling turning brown and wiliting
I just started growing an apple from an apple that had germinated seeds inside, and at first it was thriving and growing pretty quickly but now the top part of it is drooping dowards and some of the ...
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What are the white nodules on my Peperomia Polybotrya, near where the leaves fell off?
I'm very new to indoor plants so thought I would ask some more experienced indoor gardeners as I am coming up empty after a few weeks of Google searching. I've had these small white nodules appear on ...
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Does my Bird's Nest Fern have a problem?
I've had this Bird's Nest Fern for about two months and I've started noticing some brown spots around some of the edges of the plant. I've checked the roots and they look healthy and am wondering if ...
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What type of Aloe is this ? Do the properties differ much?
lately I came across this Aloe that looked a bit like a different type, it has white marks and spiky sides generally looks like normal medical aloe properties but cannot really tell since i first time ...
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What to do if too many seedlings are in the same pot?
I have attempted to grow cacti from seeds I collected from my own cactus. Since the last time I tried this (last year), only about 5 seeds started germination and then quickly died, this time I ...
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What are these clusters of orange dots on the leaves of my serviceberries?
I recently purchased a handful of young Running Serviceberries (A. stolonifera) online but soon after they started to bounce back from shipping I noticed these rusty colored spots on them (almost ...
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Cut off Cucumber Vines
One of the vines on one of my cucumber plants got cut off. Can I plant the cut off vine? It has small cucumbers on it.
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Please help! Seemingly dying Areca palm (Dypsis Lutescens) 24cm pot, bought a month ago
Please help!
I bought these Areca plants from Ikea about a month ago, i'm now concerned that i'm killing them, especially the younger one. Some fronds are dying outright, some are drooping and getting ...
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Lavender is taking off!
My lavender has just exploded with new stems this spring. I didn’t expect it would grow so tall. Do you think it’s time to repot so it spreads out? I have a much larger space I could fill with it if ...
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Brown tips on young Norway Spruce
Do you think I should treat these young Norway Spruce trees for a fungus or is this browning just from winter or transplant stress?
We live in Minnesota so we have long winters. We planted a long row ...
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Can someone help identify and diagnose this plant?
These are new plantings from about 1.5yrs ago and weren't doing well from get go. They were planted in a winter with lots of snow. I think it's some kind of holly but I'm not sure. The leaves have ...
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Silver Tree (Leucadendron argenteum) leaves yellowing?
I planted a Silver Tree (Leucadendron argenteum) a few months ago in a spot where it gets several hours of sunlight. Recently, its lower leaves started turning yellow; see photo:
Is this a cause for ...
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What is the cause of my avocado plant´s drooping leaves during the day?
I know that similar questions have already been asked here, but mine has strange circumstances to it.
For the past couple of days my avocado plant has been showing some strange patterns of behaviour. ...
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Chinese money plant- Overwatered?
My Chinese money plant is showing signs of overwatering (leaves curling under), but I only water it when the soil is bone dry all the way to the bottom of the pot. Is there potentially another issue? ...
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Will my dwarf peach tree do fine in just afternoon sun
I recently bought a dwarf bonfire patio peach and have it in only afternoon sun from 1-6pm but because I live in an apartment I only can either leave it where it is or move it to the front of the apt ...
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Flower is shedding leaves
My flower is shedding leaves.
I have my flower for 6 years.
My flower is next to the heater (new place after moving). It is bright. I water it once a week.
What can I do?
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Is this neglected Bay Tree dying? Is it worth saving?
I am in New Zealand where it is currently late summer/early fall. I have this tree which has been living in the same pot, unattended, for a number of years.
As you can see in the photos, about half ...
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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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What could cause this white/silvery mottling on the Rubber Plant leaves?
We have this large rubber plant for some years now and it’s growing constantly.
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Except from two issues:
The first was overwatering two years ago, but we fixed it as we quickly re-...
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White & yellow stone-like objects in the soil of potted plan
What are these small stone-like objects in a potted plant? They are present in multiple plants and I was wondering if this is a pest or an illness, or nothing to worry about.
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Why are the branches of my dracaena marginata shrivelling up and why are all the leaves coming completely off?
I'm having issues with my dracaena marginata. The leaves have begun to turn brown at the tips. But that's not all.
The other issue is the center of the bud like the newest leaf is brown and eventually ...
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How can I revive my cat palm (chamadorea cataractarum)?
Any advice would be appreciated. Should I relocate it somewhere that receives more light?
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Alocasia amazonica - brown/red spots
I have been gifted this plant one month ago. According to plant.id it is an Alocasia Amazonica.
One or two weeks ago some of the leafs started to show a brown spot and some reddening on the side. The ...
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My Calathea zebrina is having burnt edges in almost all leaves and even the new baby leaves are burnt
I have attached the pictures of the plant here. I water sufficiently and I place the plant in moderate humidity and light.
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What causes boxwood hedging to lose its leaves in the UK's winter months?
Boxwood is supposed to be an 'ever-green', yet in the UK it's becoming increasingly noticeable over the past few years how they shed their leaves, especially on the top surface, over the winter months ...
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Why is my cordyline superstar’s leaves falling off?
Someone lent me a cordyline superstar for the holidays. I don’t know if I gave it the right amount of water (2 glasses each 3 days) but the soil is humid.
The problem is that now the base of the ...
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Why are my repotted plants dying/not growing?
I have recently re-potted my plants as the soil they came with was either clay or too compact or they were already root-bound or the soil was not able to hold moisture. They have been shedding leaves/...
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Does anyone know what is happening/happened to my Peperomia Obtusifolia?
I recently got this Peperomia Obtusifolia as a gift last week, and am wondering what these brown tips are. They are only on the underside of the leaves, and only some leaves have them. I am keeping ...
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Orange mould in cactus soil?
I’ve noticed some orange-ish spots in the soil of my cactus plants which I am guessing is mould? I’m new to owning plants so I don’t really know what I’m supposed to do in terms of treating and ...
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Curio ficoides (Mount Everest)/Blue Chalksticks leaves are drying up
The leaves of my Curio ficoides have been drying up for more than a month now, I'm watering it about once a week, what should I do?
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