My first Plants! *glee*

[hyperzoanoid]

post more pix

[weed.of.change]

Hey, i've taken this picture with a really bad webcam but you get the general idea.

The plant is about two inches high now, but will it die down to the node near the base of the stem and then grow from there.

i hope so.



i'll have more pics soon

~peace

[Jupe]

Its about 50/50 right now,  until you  fix the unknown factors that caused it  original problems.  Because it has no leaves, you must not overwater it, soil can be damp or dry, but wet  soil will kill it.  that large pot may never dry out enough, so you might go to a smaller drier mix and pot.  If it does come back, it will take months of attention (and not overwatering it) before it gets healthy again.  Its possible, so keep on trying.

[weed.of.change]

well it was the change in humidity when i took the bottles off for the first time that did the initial damage.

  I'll keep on looking after them but its not getting better quickly thats for sure, they'll probably just die slowly


No worries though ~ Peace

[weed.of.change]

will removing the dead part of the stem before the node help recover the plant itself?

[hyperzoanoid]

Unknown factors? Lets try to track them down. I would cut the dead part off, but I really don't know.

The leaves just fell off? Also, did u repot the plants? I lost my first plant to root rot+sunburn.

[weed.of.change]

what happened is this

1. i potted the plants in a perlite/soil mix with drainage pebbles

2. i had them under a humidity bottle because twas suggested that to begin with the plants grow with higher humidity

3. On the second post of this topic the guy suggested i remove said bottles

4. A few hours later the plants are severly droopy and lifeless, the curled leaves come away at the touch of my fingers...


Thats the tale of this sorry situation

[hyperzoanoid]

So did u repot them right away? And did they come in humidity chambers? From the first pic I would say that the bottles filtered the light for the plants.

I found this:

Branches Dying: If a plant appears to be dying from the tips of a branch, shedding leaves, with the branch turning brown and eventually dying off, this is not necessarily as serious as it first may seem. It could do this at the summer's end, or just anytime. A good example would be where the growth of leaf on other branches nearer the light source had the effect of blocking out light to lower / further back branches and leaves. In a case such as this, the plant may decide that the game isn't worth the candle and effectively close down operations and redirect it's resource to producing shoots and leaves elsewhere.

Having said that, if this doesn't ring true in your case, if more branches keep dying and your plant does not appear to be making any progress (i.e. when you would expect it to be growing), then it could be that the plant is otherwise unhappy. It may need re-potting. It may be too dry. Check the rest of the plant care advice to see if its over all circumstances could be improved.

[weed.of.change]

I kept them in the same pots for a while then yesterday  changed the smaller of the too but with a more noticeable node bud thinga in a smaller clay pot with dryer soil.

I've cut the dead part of the stems off now and both show no more signs of going borwn and look as if they may start growing once they've dealt with the shock of the repotting.

So i'm actually quite optimistic now, but this will obviously take some careful looking after for a while.

The main thing is i'm just happy they didn't die, cos that'd be well crap

~no worries

[jus407]

i think it was mostly the shock of travel (i had the exact same thing happen to my  sally plants except they didnt make it next time if you buy more make sure you let them climatize to your region before taking outside i think thats the big problem oh well though next time will be better hopefully but tim eto take pix of my MG plant!

[Jupe]

Just have patience, they can sprout from beneith the soil, but they need to dry out in order to do that, and then get sporadic watering when they are bone dry.  I had forgotten about these stems, otherwise I probably would have watered them and killed em.  It takes at least a few weeks for a plant to do this, at least in my experience. And then weeks of slow growing, but any plant, no matter how small it seems, has potential to grow into a giant.