Viewing post #788949 by tarev

wisewords said:Hi Tarev

Thank you for your response, the first plant I posted up was plant a my relatives plant that not doing so well. This plant get's a lot of light as it's South West facing. Which is why I found it rather odd.

Here is plant B





As you can see from the 2nd photo it would appear that the plant is now producing new leaves from the the nodes.

However a leave pull did not work in this instance. Again this was near a South West facing window within inches and still the leaves dropped so I thought it could be temperature though it was watered, so may be the soil was not dry enough, for the temperature so now it's in a warmer room under an aquatic light, till we break into spring.

Plant C





This was next to the B and another not A as that in another house. The leaves went crinkly then dropped off I lost a lot of leaves. So I moved it to the the same place as B under the aquatic light which is a warmer room and I've had not so many leaves drop off. I was wondering if there was a different, since I had an old green money tree, which was in the porch for many years, that took very low temperatures.

Wisewords

I am looking at the soil, and it seems that soil is too tightly packed. You would need to loosen that up a bit. Although these plants are drought tolerant, it needs the soil media to be not too tightly packed. I would pull that plant, examine the roots and see if it is still okay. At times leaves will tell you that they are dropping either they got too dry or too wet. You may be watering it, but nothing gets absorbed at root level. That is why I add either pumice or perlite, not sand on my containers. Sand has the tendency to harden and pack. My usual way of checking condition of the plant is, if temps are okay, sunlight is okay and plant still suffers, then something is wrong at the root level or in the timing of watering. Remove all those dried up leaves, clean it up..those will just invite more fungal rotting there.

I do not know where you are located, so plants adjust to their existing environment. These plants are really toughies outdoors in mild, no snow cool conditions, taking both direct sun and cooler temps, but the media has to be fast draining, without being too tightly packed.