What wrong with my Dracaena deremensis "Lemon Lime"?
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What is wrong with my Dracaena lemon lime??!!!
Comments (8)Stop the misting, for one thing. It's likely a reaction to over-watering or to a high level of solubles in the soil. You should be using a soil that allows you to water copiously whenever you wish - so you can flush the soil of salts that accumulate from tap water & fertilizer solutions. Odds are that allowing the water to rest overnight won't help chlorine to gas off, given that most municipal water depts are using a form of chlorination with a long half life - much less volatile than older forms. Fluorine compounds never did gas off. I've asked a lot of degreed scientists if watering with cold water is/could be harmful to the plant's health. Surprisingly, no one could think of a physiological reason why it might be harmful, though we know that getting water colder than about 10* lower than leaf surface temperature can cause spoiled foliage. I have a streptocarpella I splashed cold water on by accident (outdoors) that will be at least a month recovering from that blunder. Al...See MoreDracaena 'Lemon Lime' won't grow!
Comments (7)I think you just need to be patient. You say you've noticed some root growth. (The roots look perfectly healthy to me.) Often, when you pot up a plant, it will devote its energy to growing a larger root system first, before putting out new top growth. Once your plant has filled most of the pots with roots, it will probably start growing leaves at a quicker pace. My Lemon Lime Dracaena grew very quickly. My secret? I left it in its old pot until the plant outgrew it completely before potting up....See MoreOK to Chop Dracaena Lemon Lime Now?
Comments (8)Cutting a houseplant back when it's just starting to give spring hints it wants to start growing in earnest will elicit a response commensurate with the plant's current level of energy reserves; so, a tepid response. Cutting a plant back after it's had some time to build energy reserves after a long winter AND when it's in the part of the growth cycle when growth is most robust, is when you get the most enthusiastic response. How well the plant backbuds after cutting it back also depends on how much energy the plant holds in reserve and what the measure of it's ability to make food/carry on photosynthesis might be ..... so waiting until days are longest is better than rushing things. In many plants, but not so much dracaena, WHEN you cut them back also has a significant impact on their appearance. If you cut a houseplant back now (ficus, kalanchoe, jades, portulacaria, ........ it's going to put on 4-8 weeks of lanky growth, which puts you in a pickle. Are you going to keep the lanky growth as a forever part of the pl;ant? That would serve to leave a platform of long internodes from which all future growth originates. If you wait until June to cut the plant back, all subsequent internodes will be much shorter, and you'd do well to keep that growth as a permanent part of the plant's framework. As days shorten, internode length stretches out again (fall/winter/early spring) and becomes less appealing. So what to do? In June, simply prune your plant back to the short internodes of the year previous. This 'rhythm' of pruning off the long winter growth every summer ensures short internodes and bushier, healthier looking plants. There's more to growing proficiently than aiming for healthy foliage and letting the plant do what it wants to. I'm not saying it can't be fun and rewarding to just give the plant its head (if you haven't been around horses, that expression might puzzle you) and let it do what it will, but it's not that difficult to make a plan that takes the plant's natural rhythms into account and as a result, elevates the plane on which you interact with your plants. Al...See Morewhats wrong with my lemon and lime trees
Comments (11)The reason I asked if they were seed grown trees is that seed grown Citrus can take what seems forever to flower until they reach a certain node count or height. I'm in NYC and I get grafted trees to bloom that are less than 10 years old. I have 2 seedling trees (Citrangequat and Morton) several years old and they have never bloomed. PIC#2 is hard to tell if its a grafted tree but how long has it been in that pot (2 gal?)? It may be rootbound as well, with circling roots choking itself. Maybe a root inspection possible repot is in order. Do you have a slug/snails problem, usually you see snails they will sleep under a leaf even in the day but slugs hide in the soil until night. You may have to go out and look with a flashlight. It can't hurt to spray with insecticidal soap. As Silica suggested you also have to up your fertilizer game. I use Jacks and/or mitacle grow for acid loving trees plus I sprinkle Osmocote plus in the container to provide micronutrients....See MoreTiffany, purpleinopp Z8b Opp, AL
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