Pachira (Money Tree) In Trouble - May 20th, 2006 at 03:26 AM
I bought one of those Bonsai arrangments from Home Depot. It had 4 separate pachira trees in it, and I separated them and repotted them individually.
Three of the four are doing very well, but one of them didn't have much of a root system and isn't doing as well as the others, in fact, not well at all, I'm afraid.
I really want to save this one, as it is my favorite of the four.
One by one the leaves started yellowing, and a slight tug would remove them. It is not using up water at the same rate as the others. For now, I have moved it to a somewhat warmer, dimmer position, am not watering it anymore, and have cut off the sections that were yellowing, leaving the petiole.
I am really only in my second year of playing with plants, so I'm not really sure what I should be doing at this point.
I've considered both putting it in a plastic bag to increase the humidity, and also pulling it from the pot and trying to root it in water. For now, I just have it in a very free draining soil mix, out of the light, and misting the foliage every other day.
Three of the four are doing very well, but one of them didn't have much of a root system and isn't doing as well as the others, in fact, not well at all, I'm afraid.
I really want to save this one, as it is my favorite of the four.
One by one the leaves started yellowing, and a slight tug would remove them. It is not using up water at the same rate as the others. For now, I have moved it to a somewhat warmer, dimmer position, am not watering it anymore, and have cut off the sections that were yellowing, leaving the petiole.
I am really only in my second year of playing with plants, so I'm not really sure what I should be doing at this point.
I've considered both putting it in a plastic bag to increase the humidity, and also pulling it from the pot and trying to root it in water. For now, I just have it in a very free draining soil mix, out of the light, and misting the foliage every other day.