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Any Help for this lemon lime dracaena? - chopper - 02-26-2023
I thought I was watering it too much so backed off. Now moved it out of the sun. It seems unhappy. I've also stopped playing Vanilla Ice in the room it is kept.
Re: Any Help for this lemon lime dracaena? - btfc - 02-26-2023
Time to repot?
Re: Any Help for this lemon lime dracaena? - chopper - 02-26-2023
I don't think I have ever re-potted it. Are you supposed to? I have philodendrons that hae been in the same pot for 20 years. I think I may have added some potting mix once.
Re: Any Help for this lemon lime dracaena? - btfc - 02-26-2023
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/plant-problems/environmental/root-bound-symptoms.htm
Re: Any Help for this lemon lime dracaena? - Carnos Jax - 02-26-2023
My buddy saved our office corn plant (been in the company since the 80's) by repotting it.
Re: Any Help for this lemon lime dracaena? - Filliam H. Muffman - 02-26-2023
Are the colors of the top leaves just brown, or dead/rot?
If it's rot, cut it off a half inch below rotted stem with a sharp, sterilized blade. Hope it starts growing again. There is a small chance it will continue to die back. If that happens, try to propagate it.
It has some leaf tips without brown spots, so that implies it isn't badly burned by: over fertilizing, dried out too much, or high mineral/fluoride tap water.
8 common problems with Dracaena
https: //houseplantcentral.com/8-common-problems-with-dracaena/
Re: Any Help for this lemon lime dracaena? - Lew Zealand - 02-26-2023
I have one that's about 25 years old. Here's what mine tolerates:
• It likes a larger pot, probably repot yours.
• It tolerates low water like a champ, don't water yours for at least 2 weeks at this point.
• It does not like direct sun very much but can tolerate a little, keep yours in a shady area
• It tolerates topping very well, sending out new side shoots within 2 months near the topping point. If yours is getting too tall, top it and it'll expand to be bushier.
• Bonus: stick the topped top in an old milk gallon with water and it'll grow roots within those same 2 months and replant your petite plant!
• Along with the low water, it tolerates dropping its lower leaves due to excessively low water and will recover with new growth from the top once you remember where you exiled your ignored plant to.
Re: Any Help for this lemon lime dracaena? - chopper - 02-27-2023
Got it, thanks.
I leave it outside in the summer, all summer. I think it got heavy rain once and exposed the entire root ball which was like maybe 3 inches below the top soil.
Topping is cutting the top of the plant off?
Re: Any Help for this lemon lime dracaena? - Lew Zealand - 02-27-2023
chopper wrote:
Got it, thanks.
I leave it outside in the summer, all summer. I think it got heavy rain once and exposed the entire root ball which was like maybe 3 inches below the top soil.
Topping is cutting the top of the plant off?
Yes, but let it recover first.
However if the top is dead (we had this happen by an insecticide accident), it will start growing again from new spots lower down.