RIP 🪦 Lisa 🙁 I got Lisa about 1 year ago. A beautiful dracaena Lisa. It was my first and favorite plant. I loved her. As a first time plant mom, there was so much I didn’t know about plants, and I learned the hard way. Yesterday I declared death officially. I had been hanging on to her with the hope she would get better. But I checked her roots, and she was very dead, root rot at the deepest level, squishy roots. I learned what root rot is now! A few things I learned along the way: - Watering: I was watering my dracaena almost every week. During the first 6 months. She was fine, because it was summer/fall. During winter, I kept watering the same way… so I obviously gave her too much water, so she got sick. - Repotting: Not knowing what I was doing, I attempted to repot her in february of this year. Did everything wrong, got rid of very healthy roots and messed the whole thing up… shouldve done the research before and not after. Lesson learned. - Soil: my third mistake, and probably what ended up killing Lisa, using normal soil potting mix, and not adding substrates to increase drainage. So even with new soil, my plant was holding a ton of water, on top of its already damanged rooting system, which I messed up haha. Nothing I did helped my plant get better, instead everything I attempted made it worse. But, messing up in every way… I learned a ton of how to do things right… so next time, it won’t happen again. Found this amazing youtube channel called the Swedish Plant guys, and boy… they know it all! Sharing this hear for all those new plant moms and dads, save your plants by not doing everything wrong like I did. Im rooting for you! Before and after pics below 🥲🥲 RIP Lisa 😞
