Hi, I’m a beginner at plant caretaking. I recently picked out a couple of small plants at a nursery, but they didn’t have any pottery to go with them unfortunately.
2 standard African violets (one a scraggly guy in need of a repot once he’s out of rehab), 2 primulina bebes (paper cups inside a teeny terracotta pot so hopefully they stop falling over), and 2 AV leaves that WILL propagate and give me flowers, dammit.
Hey, we moved about 1.5 years ago and our ZZ plant loves its new place. It made 3 new shoots since we moved in and even bloomed last week. But today we found brown spots on the leaves of the newest shoot.
Hello! I hope it’s ok to post questions like that here. I have ALWAYS had problems with Monsteras and their leaves browning and dying off. I always thought it might be a too dark or too sunny location. Now I’ve made some new living room space and I thought maaaybe this spot would be good (bit away from a large window, lots of light but no direct sunlight hits it)
When I started getting more serious about plantkeeping last year, I picked up the essentials for repotting the plants I had. I have potting mix, perlite, orchid bark, spaghum moss, and fertilizer pellets
Calatheas. They have the reputation for being literally impossible to keep alive.
And if you manage to at least not outright kill them, they look super sad. Crispy leaves, no growth, and more dead than alive. You also just didn’t like the plant to begin with, because it always has been super fuzzy about everything.