Mosinau, you many not even realize, but the entire opening post is about plants being killed by not drying quickly enough, and more water being added before they have dried. Roots need oxygen as well as moisture. Without both, they can rot and can't perform their job well, or at all once rot sets in. It may seem like a separate issue for each plant, but it sounds like one same issue to me. That is what the responses so far have been addressing. "varying watering habits(I view it as more of a chore now, while earlier I went by the website's instruction- every day)." That's way too often. When plants are dry, they need water. The amount of time it takes a particular pot to dry can vary, so a set schedule often does more harm than good. "Does having a nutrient source near the end accelerate the growth?" If this is all connected as one plant, nutrients obtained by one part will be shared with the whole plant. " My secondary question is about the micans only- its unusual leaves look like they catch a lot of dust. Is this bad and if so, how do I clean them off?" I put my plants outside in the rain when it's warm enough in the spring to clean off the winter dust. In general your focus seems to be making plants grow faster. To do that, the focus needs to start at the roots. No part of a plant can be healthy without healthy roots. In nature, there are many different types of soil and climate environments. In a house, there's usually one climate. As far as the soil part goes, the best thing we can do is offer something that provides moisture without rotting roots. "I'd like to eventually make up a pot that combines all my plants of this type." That sounds cool, I do that too. Plants with similar light and moisture requirements should do well together in the same pot. Eventually one might crowd the others out, at which time you could trim the bigger one, or redo the whole thing and kind of start over. "Schefflera(maybe Luseane). I know this can work in my house because my parents have one already and it is our most magnificent plant. I got one myself, unsure of how it propagates and not wanting to sacrifice any of the main one, but after a while of decent growth, it just sort of rotted away." The roots likely rotted. "Like with the Pileas, I had been following the watering instructions on the Exotic Angel Plants website, which called for watering every 2 or 3 days, I believe. I also had it in my room, which has somewhat lower light." They will tell you what they think you want to hear. Everyone wants some magic plant that can look great and even grow in some dark boring corner. Sure, there are a few of these out there, but the 'low light' designation on EA website shouldn't be given much weight, especially by someone like yourself who wants plants to grow at a visible pace as fast as they can. I put Scheff outside in the sun, all day (when plants aren't in the house hiding from winter.) While...

Oh, that is a great link, thank you! Scorched leaves and heat stress are a big concern for the room, but the humidifier helps quite a bit. The lemon trees used to be up there, actually, until they started showing stress, so I brought them down to the cooler room while investigating causes. It turned out they mostly just needed fertilizer, so they can probably go back up again. As far as the porch, it is in the deep, deep shade of several gigantic escarpment oaks and a nogalito, and is laughably dim. Besides, I'd rather have the plants inside where I can enjoy them...and where it isn't over 100 for weeks on end.

ToC - Bayer still makes the 3-in-1 Insect - Disease - Mite Control product with Imidacloprid, Tebuconazole, and the miticide Tau-fluvalinate (a pyrethroid). I've been checking in big box stores and they seem to prefer to carry the product (name the same) labeled differently in that Imidacloprid is not listed as an ingredient. I've been to 2 greenhouse ops in the last week, and out of curiosity, I checked the label of the concentrate they were selling and the label said it included .47% Imidacloprid. IF you look at the safety sheet Bayer provides for the product we assume does not contain Imidacloprid, it indicates it does contain .47% Imidacloprid. It must have something to do with labeling laws, perhaps if the product contains less that .5% of anything, it needn't be included as an ingredient? I just received a case of 8 qts from an outfit called "Do My Own", and all are labeled as containing Imidacloprid, so I'm set for the next decade at least. Al

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