Watering habits – light watering approx once per week. Pot does not have drainage but soil does contain pebbles/pottery etc.
Have had plant 4 years and problem has been for the last 1 year or so.
Plant has indirect light all day.
Soil is standard houseplant soil (premixed)
nicoleauroux
Sounds like you’ve been lucky and the light has been adequate to help it process water. It needs a pot with drainage holes. Otherwise the roots sit there and rot. I would take it out and check if the roots are viable. If so then I would put it into a container that’s got drainage, and then give it more light and less water.
Plants need thorough watering and then they should be allowed to dry until the leaves get soft or droop a little bit.
kreatorofchaos
I’ve battled with mine for 6 whole months. Changing water habits, water type, humidity, lighting, etc…and just couldn’t win. They’re dramatic as fuck and I’ll never own one again. Take it to the tallest building cut it (the plant) into tiny pieces and throw it over the edge!
Then there’s my mom, her lily sits in a dimly lit corner and THRIVES off of a cup of water every few weeks. She’s had it for 6 years and it doesn’t have a brown spot on it!
Godspeed OP!
SN: yours probably has root rot if there’s no drainage
AliceOnChain
Mine was struggling then it was thriving until it wasn’t anymore. I had some root rot after using tap water so I trimmed and repotted in two different pots and I thought I was able to revive one of them but it started looking like your’s. I’m finally giving up on it after it failed to produce new growth.
When it was better, it used to love distilled water, bright but indirect light and occasional fertilizing.
arubeeka
I had one of these also struggling with watering. I know the plant thrives in gentle light high humidity environments, but my apartment is bright and very dry. So I did an experiment.
I split the plant into two: repotted one half into some soil mix and put the other half in hydroculture.
One year later, the one in hydroculture has grown 2x-3x, while the first one in soil, has been like yours for a bit and might have given up already.
No flowers though. I might be missing some crucial nutrients…
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Watering habits – light watering approx once per week. Pot does not have drainage but soil does contain pebbles/pottery etc.
Have had plant 4 years and problem has been for the last 1 year or so.
Plant has indirect light all day.
Soil is standard houseplant soil (premixed)
Sounds like you’ve been lucky and the light has been adequate to help it process water. It needs a pot with drainage holes. Otherwise the roots sit there and rot. I would take it out and check if the roots are viable. If so then I would put it into a container that’s got drainage, and then give it more light and less water.
Plants need thorough watering and then they should be allowed to dry until the leaves get soft or droop a little bit.
I’ve battled with mine for 6 whole months. Changing water habits, water type, humidity, lighting, etc…and just couldn’t win. They’re dramatic as fuck and I’ll never own one again. Take it to the tallest building cut it (the plant) into tiny pieces and throw it over the edge!
Then there’s my mom, her lily sits in a dimly lit corner and THRIVES off of a cup of water every few weeks. She’s had it for 6 years and it doesn’t have a brown spot on it!
Godspeed OP!
SN: yours probably has root rot if there’s no drainage
Mine was struggling then it was thriving until it wasn’t anymore. I had some root rot after using tap water so I trimmed and repotted in two different pots and I thought I was able to revive one of them but it started looking like your’s. I’m finally giving up on it after it failed to produce new growth.
When it was better, it used to love distilled water, bright but indirect light and occasional fertilizing.
I had one of these also struggling with watering. I know the plant thrives in gentle light high humidity environments, but my apartment is bright and very dry. So I did an experiment.
I split the plant into two: repotted one half into some soil mix and put the other half in hydroculture.
One year later, the one in hydroculture has grown 2x-3x, while the first one in soil, has been like yours for a bit and might have given up already.
No flowers though. I might be missing some crucial nutrients…