My question is for @pyrrhula or anyone who knows about taking care of houseplants.
this plant did quite well over the years. I raised it from a very small one and see how big it has become over the years. all of a sudden the tips turn brown and it also is loosing some leaves. our home is a constant 72 degrees Fahrenheit including at night. am I overwatering it, or not enough water?
it would be ashamed if I loose this plant. wondering if it needs a bigger pot. the leaves grew as high as the ceiling. there're two stems and out of both of them grew two plant each.
Dear Bruni. I `ve a same one for more then 30 years now . They has/did several times bloom. . See; 365project01.org/pyrrhula/365/2011-05 and the 2 folowing days
The name is Dracaena fragrans . What you show is normaly . Nothing to worry about .They all do this after some times and make a stem . Yours is very full of leaves in fact . If it get to big , just cut it of , they easily grow a new . ( I did mine a month ago. )
@pyrrhula Thank you Ferry. I was more concerned about the spots on them. too dry or too wet and turning yellow. loosing leaves is new to me. never did before.
It might be that it needs a new pot, or that it has taken all the goodness from the soil it is in and needs food!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just suggestions, I haven't got green fingers, plants have two choices in my house and garden - they live or they die :)
@shirleybankfarm Dear ShirleyB. Plants do n`t need soil to grow. They can do it also on water and fertilizer. They take most what they need from the air CO2 . If you do, once a year a replant in spring will be enough.
@pyrrhula Ferry. it didn't matter that your link didn't work. I've a way of getting to your page as along as I know what year and what month. so I looked at it already. but thank you for sending the link again. our plant has never bloomed and all the leaves hang down, not like the ones I see when I google Dracaena fragrans..they seem to be standing up. our plant was as small as the ones on the picture I googled.
Bruni, your plant (we call it a corn plant even tho it's not) looks wonderful in that picture. Close ups of the leaves actually look fairly normal. If you water your plant with regular tap water, the salts can build up in the soil and in the plant leaves and can "burn" the tips. You can actually just prune the leaves with a pair of scissors. Using water that has been declorinized (with the drops people use for fishtanks) helps some as does repotting.
Oh, and be happy that yours has never bloomed. Ours did and it killed off that stalk. It was incredibly fragrant at night and was very interesting, but I was sad that it died off after that.
@hoosierhokie Thank you Becca. thank you for your tips. ours has never been replanted in all those years. I'm afraid to repot it as it's 8 feet tall and like I said, it's up to the ceiling. I guess we would have to slide it sideways and through the sliding door to the deck where we can stand it up to repot it. the roof over our deck is higher than 8 feet. that would work. so I think we shall do that coming Spring...too cold already to do it now.
Looks like you have received all the info you need. I would have thought it was over-watered or needed to be repotted, but looks like the solution is much simpler than that! 8 feet tall- that is very impressive!
@hoosierhokie . They do this only by midnight . So we open the door and windows when we get up . More problems with the drips that fall down from the flowers
I am not good at that, but it looks like something is working at the leaves. My Wife would say it has probably outgrown its pot, root bound. Perhaps it needs to be repotted
@pyrrhula - yes, we noticed that, too. Completely unprepared for it to flower. I had no idea and the first morning when we woke up and smelled the very sweet scent, we couldn't figure out where it came from. Took us til the second night to figure it out! And the sticky drips from the flowers were a bit of a mess, but not too bad.
October 28th, 2015
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The name is Dracaena fragrans . What you show is normaly . Nothing to worry about .They all do this after some times and make a stem . Yours is very full of leaves in fact . If it get to big , just cut it of , they easily grow a new . ( I did mine a month ago. )
Ina gives ours water once a week. The pot is +/- 10 x 15 inches.
In our country they sell them with big stems/trunks and less leaves. https://www.google.nl/search?q=dracaena+fragrans&rlz=1C1AVSA_enNL446NL446&espv=2&biw=1680&bih=925&tbm=
Oh, and be happy that yours has never bloomed. Ours did and it killed off that stalk. It was incredibly fragrant at night and was very interesting, but I was sad that it died off after that.