My dream plant is a pink princess philodendron, so when I saw one randomly in the grocery store the other day I bought it immediately. I did some research and I’m trying my best to give it the right environment- But I’m feeling pretty discouraged because I can see her visibly wilting each day. The new leaves she had got wrinkly and soft, and now I’m noticing brown crispy spots on the tips of her bigger leaves. Here are some of the things I did to try to give her a good start:
bought some philodendron specific soil and repotted her
bought a grow light that is hanging over a foot above her (i keep it on for around 12 hours a day)
bought a mini humidifier that i refill daily
I also try to keep my apartment fairly warm. My cat did attack her once right as I brought her home but she’s safe from the beast now. If anyone has further advice, I would love to hear it. I really struggle with keeping plants alive đ but I want to do better.
hobbschickenguy
Mine has been doing the same thing for a month but somehow it stays alive.
IntelligentCrab7058
That kitty need halp
143forever
The only thing I’ll add is that the substrate can be even chunkier (more perlite and coco chips) but it maybe fine in the substrate you gave it but just don’t over water especially in winter.
plants entering a new environment do take time to adjust and it will focus on establishing new root growth over leaves, so some old leaves dying as a sacrifice wouldn’t be a big deal unless the main stem starts to rot etc.
Good luck!
initaldespacito
Grocery store plants in my experience are really heavily overwatered (like watered daily in terrible lighting) so thatâs likely whatâs causing the mushy leaves (excess water being guttated and rotting the leaf). Between that, the repot, and adjusting to a new environment itâs probably under quite a bit of stress. It sounds like youâre giving it some pretty ideal conditions though so Iâd just wait it out and it should bounce back. For the future – as tempting as it is to get rid of the terrible peat they grow those in ASAP – unless the medium is absolutely SOAKED I find it helps a lot to reduce repot stress to allow a plant to acclimate to your home for about 2 weeks before repotting
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My dream plant is a pink princess philodendron, so when I saw one randomly in the grocery store the other day I bought it immediately. I did some research and I’m trying my best to give it the right environment- But I’m feeling pretty discouraged because I can see her visibly wilting each day. The new leaves she had got wrinkly and soft, and now I’m noticing brown crispy spots on the tips of her bigger leaves. Here are some of the things I did to try to give her a good start:
bought some philodendron specific soil and repotted her
bought a grow light that is hanging over a foot above her (i keep it on for around 12 hours a day)
bought a mini humidifier that i refill daily
I also try to keep my apartment fairly warm. My cat did attack her once right as I brought her home but she’s safe from the beast now. If anyone has further advice, I would love to hear it. I really struggle with keeping plants alive đ but I want to do better.
Mine has been doing the same thing for a month but somehow it stays alive.
That kitty need halp
The only thing I’ll add is that the substrate can be even chunkier (more perlite and coco chips) but it maybe fine in the substrate you gave it but just don’t over water especially in winter.
plants entering a new environment do take time to adjust and it will focus on establishing new root growth over leaves, so some old leaves dying as a sacrifice wouldn’t be a big deal unless the main stem starts to rot etc.
Good luck!
Grocery store plants in my experience are really heavily overwatered (like watered daily in terrible lighting) so thatâs likely whatâs causing the mushy leaves (excess water being guttated and rotting the leaf). Between that, the repot, and adjusting to a new environment itâs probably under quite a bit of stress. It sounds like youâre giving it some pretty ideal conditions though so Iâd just wait it out and it should bounce back. For the future – as tempting as it is to get rid of the terrible peat they grow those in ASAP – unless the medium is absolutely SOAKED I find it helps a lot to reduce repot stress to allow a plant to acclimate to your home for about 2 weeks before repotting
Buy it a greenhouse