Do you have any plants where your experience differs from care information or advice you read / heard? Thats the case for my Dischidia ovata ‘one stripe’! I had heard that this plant should only be watered when completely dry and the leaves are soft. When I gave it this care, it grew slowly and always with wonky or burned leaves. Now, I water when about 1/2 dry. By not letting this plant dry out, I’ve been rewarded with much quicker growth and nicer, larger leaves! *keep in mind I have this plant in a very chunky mix, the top 1/3 of the root system has very little soil, mostly chunky perlite, orchid bark and coco husk, the bottom 2/3 of the mix is still chunky, but also moisture retaining with soil. The smallest photo is when I got it one year ago, then the photo with a lil plant on the trellis was six months ago when I still was letting it dry out too much, and now look how much it’s grown with proper care! Share your experiences!
John H.
Picked up this palm tree does anyone know what kind it is? It’s super healthy ,
Jordan 🌸
Hello! This is my gorgeous plant that I got at a plant sale about 7 months ago! It’s grown a lot since then and I wanted to show her off a little! #plantmom I am also open to suggestions on ways to improve this plants health! Thank you!
P.s. I just added this moss pole for support.
Lucia
Absolutely stunning 😮🤩
Moonscar1
Hello all! I’m still relatively new to plants, but was put into contact with someone in my community through a coworker. She was getting rid of some mature plants as the care for them had gotten too intensive and wanted them to go to a home that would care for them. I believe the species as epiphyllum oxypetallum (queen of the night) and schlumbergera bridgesii (christmas cactus). Any advice for these species or the particular plants would be helpful. The Christmas Cactus has small dots on some of the leaves and the Queen of the Night has some larger brown patches. I know at least one of them was kept outside underneath a patio. Thank you in advance for any advice!
Val
Coco is my new baby, she was a gift from a friend 💕 any tips for her? 🤗
Chiara
I need help in removing a plant I no longer have.
Brit
Anyone know how to get rid of the brown spots on my peperomia or cebu blue?? Otherwise they seem happy!
Sarah
Does anyone know what kind of plant this is? Asking for a friend 😊
Aly
Should I transfer them to smaller pots? Im still learning and I thought bigger pots were better but apparently not so I’m wondering about these, should I go smaller?
Em.
I’m not sure what happen to my snake plant, I noticed this recently? She was sitting in my room which gets subpar lighting, I recently moved her entirely to the balcony where there is more sun and I’ve only watered her once last month like the 30th thru the sink prior to the yellow left :( should I also remove the leaf?
Anya
Hey! I know this isnt the best photo, but does anyone know if this is a harmful or beneficial bug? I don’t see any damage on my plant (it’s a variegated heuschkelina propagating in perlite) and I see roots and new growth but just found these bugs crawling on the surface of the perlite and under leaves. The bug moves quite quickly
DanishGramma
😩😭 what in holy hell does this to my baby spaghetti squash 🤯😳
I put that chair under it before it was able to touch it because I thought maybe I could get just one squash this year because they didn’t leave me one last year those voles were celebrating the greatest jubilee of food 🎉 they baried the seeds for me in my star jasmine container 😆 but I didn’t find the ones that were under my wildflower bag until they were everywhere 🌱🌱🌱
DanishGramma
This is my first aglaonema plant so I’m not really familiar with them, but it’s been growing kind of weird lately and I want to know if it’s normal or if I need to prune the side shoots off? I wasn’t expecting it to send up all the little spikes either! Lol
I just thought maybe you wanted to see the top 🤪
hannah <3
I’ve got a problem with aphids on my zebra plant, she’s in her prime at the moment growing lots of new leaves, I’ve tried brushing them off with soapy water(that works for a little while) then they came back. I’ve tried shooting them off with water and they seem to just crawl back onto her. Do I spray them off and repot her? Because the aphids just fall into the soil. Pls help 🙏
James
Hi! Does anyone know what to do with this.Thank you
K
How do I get one string of bananas to grow roots?
K
Krazyhorse
I recently moved into my college dorm, and suddenly my croton is losing leaves, and there seem to be some dark patches growing on some of the leaves? Does anyone know if this some type of fungus or anything I should be concerned about? This plant has never lost leaves or had any of these growths in the time that I’ve had it until now.
Ricky
I recently bought and potted these plants in these adorable glass mushroom mugs (bc they are too fragile for actual coffee drinking imo). Plus the chives in the terracotta; also no drainage).
They have no drainage, but I read that to "imitate" drainage I could put rocks at the bottom under dirt.
Do you think this would be beneficial? Or do you have anything else I should add as well? Or other suggestions!
I just really love these mugs and want to use them.
Plants: String of Pearls (has some rocks mixed with soil), Lucky Bamboo, Spider Plant, and Purple Waffle Plant
Squillium
Crape Myrtle new growth different color
Hi everyone, I’m brand new to gardening and I recently planted a crape Myrtle with purple leaves. However, as it’s settled in, it has grown like crazy with long branches and green leaves. Is the different color normal and should I be pruning these branches? It looks like the leaves are getting some discoloration towards the tips.
