please help! - May 6th, 2005 at 06:40 PM
I am having a problem with leaves dying and I am not sure why. I bought the plant 2 weeks ago. It is some variety of philodendron according to the tag and I picked it up from Home Depot.
I replanted it in some kind of Scott's soil which has 3 mos of built in fertilizer. Fast forward a week later and I had cut off 3 leaves because they turn mushy. I assume from overwatering. Here is a pic of the 4th leaf now doing the same.
Since I thought the soil may be too wet I repotted it with the same dirt only adding some perlite to loosen things up but things are still the same. Here is another leaf starting to do the same. You can see the light green area shown here.
I have not watered this plant except when I repotted it so I am at a loss. The soil does feel a little damp but again I did add perlite. Should I dig it up again and maybe use Miracle Gro soil.. and maybe Perlite with this also? I don't want to lose more leaves but I don't want to dig it up unless I need to. Thanks so much for your help.
I replanted it in some kind of Scott's soil which has 3 mos of built in fertilizer. Fast forward a week later and I had cut off 3 leaves because they turn mushy. I assume from overwatering. Here is a pic of the 4th leaf now doing the same.
Since I thought the soil may be too wet I repotted it with the same dirt only adding some perlite to loosen things up but things are still the same. Here is another leaf starting to do the same. You can see the light green area shown here.
I have not watered this plant except when I repotted it so I am at a loss. The soil does feel a little damp but again I did add perlite. Should I dig it up again and maybe use Miracle Gro soil.. and maybe Perlite with this also? I don't want to lose more leaves but I don't want to dig it up unless I need to. Thanks so much for your help.