Your best bet would be to carefully separate the plants. There are some in there that could do with different care to the others.
I think they’re all crammed in without much thought, and if they did start doing well, they would very quickly outgrow that pot anyway.
It’s hard to say whether it’s over or under watering from the photos.
I tend to use better draining soil, just mix with about 30% perlite, for a lot of my plants. And I don’t water until they’re dry at least halfway down.
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PunkyPiez
I’m honestly not sure how it’d be possible to keep the peace lilly (i think its a peace Lily in the back) satisfied with water whilst also not giving the zz plant, philodendron and aglaeonema root rot. The arrangement seems to be kind of a headache to maintain
Nekowelsh
Identify what plant it is (app called picture this is good, however makes you pay for some things) then work out how much sunlight/ water it needs
stormchaser9876
This is how my plant obsession got started a couple years ago. I went to a funeral and the person was giving away all the flowers arrangements to the guests in attendance. I ended up with an arrangement that had a variety. Prayer plant, peace lily, arrow head, dracaena, croton, etc. I put it in a window and watered it when I remembered and out of the blue I decided to split it up, downloaded the planta app, and learned how to take care of them. My house is now covered in plants by propagating, gifted plants as well a many Lowe’s clearance finds. It’s so much fun.
_uff_da
These plants don’t have similar water needs. The peace lily like to be kept moist, the others not as much. I see a maranta in there as well. Split into their own pots if you want them to survive.
I took my peace lily out of dirt and do semi hydro and it’s never been happier.
PongACong
it’s pretty crazy to combine these three plants (peace lily, zz, and anglonaema) with vastly different needs. you should do your best to separate them if you can. it should be simple!
Careless_Mango_7948
When peace Lilly’s droop they want water.
smshinkle
Potted arrangements are purely for visual aesthetic purposes and virtually always need separated out due to vastly different needs of each plant.
BCR-ABL1-t315i
I got one just like this from my sisters funeral and when it does this, it means I need to water it. It perks up shortly after. But also, the back always does this as it’s not getting as much light. You need to rotate it so it can get more light if you want it to be full on the back side.
MuffledApplause
I water my peace lily about once every 6 weeks. I live in Ireland so its pretty damp/humid.
PrancingPudu
Mixed pots like this are a headache, especially when the plants have different water needs!
First photo shows the peace lily. (Toxic to cats, FYI!) Water with distilled or RO-filtered water when the leaves droop. It’s very dramatic and will throw a tantrum like in your first photo when it’s thirsty, but they’re actually pretty hardy! Mine likes soil mixed 1:1:1 with perlite and peat.
In the second photo I see a maranta/prayer plant, which is the one with spoon-shaped leaves featuring lots of light and dark patterning. You can water and pot up soil for this similarly to the peace lily. Just water when you stick a finger an inch in the soil and it’s dry.
The philodendron (heart shaped leaves, lower left corner) does not need to be watered as often as the other two, and the ZZ plant (middle; waxier firmer leaves) needs to be watered even less! I don’t have personal experience with these two or the aglaonema (aka “Chinese evergreen”; the other spoon leaf with light middle, next to the maranta), but all five plants would do much better repotted in their own containers.
The water needs of the peace lily alone will absolutely cause root rot in some of the others.
duh_nom_yar
Separate that monstrosity and you will discover who is the real pain in the ass!
sweetwillow555
Usually these are underwatered, the best way to tell is to water it when it’s droopy like this, wait about a day or 2, if there’s no perking up afterward, then you know it’s being overwatered. If it perks up, take all of the dead growth out, including cutting all of the dead growth from parts of the living plants, and then looking the plant over again and thinning out the weaker looking plants hidden in there. When you get done, you’ll be surprised at how much room you’ll have again. EDIT: I didn’t see all the other plants in there, lol. Sorry about that!
usingbrain
You did yourself a disservice by posting the first picture 😅 Many people people didn’t notice there are 4 other plants in this pot. They all have different requirements (at times quite opposite) and need to be separated
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Your best bet would be to carefully separate the plants. There are some in there that could do with different care to the others.
I think they’re all crammed in without much thought, and if they did start doing well, they would very quickly outgrow that pot anyway.
It’s hard to say whether it’s over or under watering from the photos.
I tend to use better draining soil, just mix with about 30% perlite, for a lot of my plants. And I don’t water until they’re dry at least halfway down.
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I’m honestly not sure how it’d be possible to keep the peace lilly (i think its a peace Lily in the back) satisfied with water whilst also not giving the zz plant, philodendron and aglaeonema root rot. The arrangement seems to be kind of a headache to maintain
Identify what plant it is (app called picture this is good, however makes you pay for some things) then work out how much sunlight/ water it needs
This is how my plant obsession got started a couple years ago. I went to a funeral and the person was giving away all the flowers arrangements to the guests in attendance. I ended up with an arrangement that had a variety. Prayer plant, peace lily, arrow head, dracaena, croton, etc. I put it in a window and watered it when I remembered and out of the blue I decided to split it up, downloaded the planta app, and learned how to take care of them. My house is now covered in plants by propagating, gifted plants as well a many Lowe’s clearance finds. It’s so much fun.
These plants don’t have similar water needs. The peace lily like to be kept moist, the others not as much. I see a maranta in there as well. Split into their own pots if you want them to survive.
I took my peace lily out of dirt and do semi hydro and it’s never been happier.
it’s pretty crazy to combine these three plants (peace lily, zz, and anglonaema) with vastly different needs. you should do your best to separate them if you can. it should be simple!
When peace Lilly’s droop they want water.
Potted arrangements are purely for visual aesthetic purposes and virtually always need separated out due to vastly different needs of each plant.
I got one just like this from my sisters funeral and when it does this, it means I need to water it. It perks up shortly after. But also, the back always does this as it’s not getting as much light. You need to rotate it so it can get more light if you want it to be full on the back side.
I water my peace lily about once every 6 weeks. I live in Ireland so its pretty damp/humid.
Mixed pots like this are a headache, especially when the plants have different water needs!
First photo shows the peace lily. (Toxic to cats, FYI!) Water with distilled or RO-filtered water when the leaves droop. It’s very dramatic and will throw a tantrum like in your first photo when it’s thirsty, but they’re actually pretty hardy! Mine likes soil mixed 1:1:1 with perlite and peat.
In the second photo I see a maranta/prayer plant, which is the one with spoon-shaped leaves featuring lots of light and dark patterning. You can water and pot up soil for this similarly to the peace lily. Just water when you stick a finger an inch in the soil and it’s dry.
The philodendron (heart shaped leaves, lower left corner) does not need to be watered as often as the other two, and the ZZ plant (middle; waxier firmer leaves) needs to be watered even less! I don’t have personal experience with these two or the aglaonema (aka “Chinese evergreen”; the other spoon leaf with light middle, next to the maranta), but all five plants would do much better repotted in their own containers.
The water needs of the peace lily alone will absolutely cause root rot in some of the others.
Separate that monstrosity and you will discover who is the real pain in the ass!
Usually these are underwatered, the best way to tell is to water it when it’s droopy like this, wait about a day or 2, if there’s no perking up afterward, then you know it’s being overwatered. If it perks up, take all of the dead growth out, including cutting all of the dead growth from parts of the living plants, and then looking the plant over again and thinning out the weaker looking plants hidden in there. When you get done, you’ll be surprised at how much room you’ll have again. EDIT: I didn’t see all the other plants in there, lol. Sorry about that!
You did yourself a disservice by posting the first picture 😅 Many people people didn’t notice there are 4 other plants in this pot. They all have different requirements (at times quite opposite) and need to be separated