I recently learned of hydroponics and that you can grow pretty much anything in water
I’ve gotten clay pebbles, fertilizer and root hormone. I am very successfully propagating a garden canna (not pictured) and maintaining the mother garden canna as well as a few others. So far everything’s been very successful and my plants are much happier than they were in soil.
My question: I read that it’s normal when transferring from soil to water for leaves to yellow and fall off as new water roots form, but at what point should you be concerned? My pothos has a handful of new leaves sprouting and they seem happy but I keep finding dead leaves and as you can see she’s a lil stemmy. Is this just the process?
As for my monstera, I watered her after these pics were taken but I’m curious if this could be the cause of the yellowing edges? My peace lily also started drying at the edge of the leaves, but the flowers are starting to bloom and she’s seemed overall okay. For context I switched my plants from soil to water about 3-4 weeks ago. Any other advice/observations are welcome! The brown paper was to protect them from harsh sun and heat as we had a heatwave recently, this is a north facing window
by Zealousideal-Cut374
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Go back to soil. Hydroponics needs constant flow or aeration. Or try coconut coir. Do some research
I’m an RDWC cannabis grower from the other hydro sub (r/hydro) and know little about houseplants. Anyone is free to correct me.
You have wax leaf plants. They don’t dry out as quickly. I think they will show transplant shock differently or later than tomatoes, garden vegetables and, other hairy-leaf plants when making the switch from soil to hydro. I think whatever you read was talking about those kind of plants which dry out faster and shock quicker.
I’ve never done a hydroponic grow where my hydroton was in the water. Some do use a timed top feed, but it has an off cycle, and the hydroton doesn’t sit in water. Typically the hydroton is in a net cup. It is humid, but the water is below it.
I’m not saying that what you’re doing can’t work, I’m just used to seeing setups where the top half of the container is hydroton and the bottom half is water. (Maybe that is what I’m seeing and can’t tell).
When I take a rooted clone out of the aerocloner, it’s just roots with no media. When loading it into a netcup, I try to put the roots down through the slots to reach water. I still pour water from the reservoir over the hydroton once or twice a day until it has healthy roots in the water.
Maybe wax leaf houseplants are completely different, because that does seem to be working well for now, but do you mind sharing how you’re feeding them and such?