First, look at all these older leaves I pulled off from my Dracaena marginata and notice that each of these lines on the trunk represents a fallen leaf.
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If you apply over-simplified diagnoses such as “yellowing leaves = overwatering”, are you going to tell me that this plant has been overwatered for the past 4 years? And if it hadn’t been overwatered, would this entire trunk be covered in lush green leaves all the way down? No, once you start accepting that plants must abort older leaves as they grow and understand your environmental conditions, you’ll start to gain confidence in your plant care abilities.
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📷 2) Now for the fascinating part: the spacing between the scars was farther apart in this lower section. By doing a (very) rough calculation of the average leaf drop rate, this widely spaced section was the top of the plant 3 years ago. Here’s what I think happened – we moved into this office around that time and put the plant here in this bright window. In our old office, the plant was being used as a typical office plant in a sitting area far from any windows. Thus, during that time, the growing tip was stretching out for more light. So the trunk of the Dracaena can give you clues about its past conditions!
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