ID my house plant!
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Electric_Andy
Heavy Metal Fan
- Location
- Plymouth
furry feather.
Electric_Andy
Heavy Metal Fan
- Location
- Plymouth
it's an indoor plant, don't over water
annedonnelly
Girl from the North Country
- Location
- Canonbie
Maybe needs a bigger pot?
Dogtrousers
Lefty tighty. Get it righty.
Triffid
Thanks folks - an image search from the suggestions confirms "velvet calathea" / "furry feather".
Doesn't look like a great candidate since it's evidently quite picky and I'm bloody awful at looking after things; but I'll try not to kill it.
If it starts to look worse for wear I'll maybe look to pass it on to someone more green-fingered locally
Doesn't look like a great candidate since it's evidently quite picky and I'm bloody awful at looking after things; but I'll try not to kill it.
If it starts to look worse for wear I'll maybe look to pass it on to someone more green-fingered locally
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
Thanks folks - an image search from the suggestions confirms "velvet calathea" / "furry feather".
Doesn't look like a great candidate since it's evidently quite picky and I'm bloody awful at looking after things; but I'll try not to kill it.
If it starts to look worse for wear I'll maybe look to pass it on to someone more green-fingered locally
I hate to break the news but that plant is suffering already.......
- Location
- Glasgow
Well done for rescuing the poor thing!If it starts to look worse for wear I'll maybe look to pass it on to someone more green-fingered locally
A bigger pot, some fresh houseplant compost, a nice position next to a window, out of direct sun, give it a name
Not too much water, let it drink from the plate under the pot (how you call it???), a few drops of baby bio in the water from time to time.
annedonnelly
Girl from the North Country
- Location
- Canonbie
Saucer?
annedonnelly
Girl from the North Country
- Location
- Canonbie
Thanks folks - an image search from the suggestions confirms "velvet calathea" / "furry feather".
Doesn't look like a great candidate since it's evidently quite picky and I'm bloody awful at looking after things; but I'll try not to kill it.
If it starts to look worse for wear I'll maybe look to pass it on to someone more green-fingered locally
There may have been a reason why you found it dumped next to the bins
A bit of an update..
I re-potted the plant into something a bit larger but it continued to degrade.
I've read they don't like to be over-watered however the degradation seemed faster when given less water, so I this seemed like the greater of too evils and I've since made sure that there's always an excess of water in the pot the actual plant pot sits in.
It's well-shaded (as I've read they like) so the only other environmental problem I can think of is nutrition, so it was my plan to try and get some appropriate plant food.
That being said it's since started to sprout some new leaves near the centre of the plant, so I'm wondering if the dying outer leaves are due to some factor they were previously exposed to..? Equally, the stalks that many of them are on are so long that they've kinked under their own weight, which will doubtless hamper the flow of water and nutrients to the leaves... so perhaps this is a factor.
As it stands I'm just trimming off the leaves / stalks at their base as they wither and die, and will look to get some food for it at some point.
I think I'll probably end up at a point where all the original leaves are dead / gone while courting new growth from the middle - which isn't a bad thing considering how much of my table the existing ones had claimed..
I re-potted the plant into something a bit larger but it continued to degrade.
I've read they don't like to be over-watered however the degradation seemed faster when given less water, so I this seemed like the greater of too evils and I've since made sure that there's always an excess of water in the pot the actual plant pot sits in.
It's well-shaded (as I've read they like) so the only other environmental problem I can think of is nutrition, so it was my plan to try and get some appropriate plant food.
That being said it's since started to sprout some new leaves near the centre of the plant, so I'm wondering if the dying outer leaves are due to some factor they were previously exposed to..? Equally, the stalks that many of them are on are so long that they've kinked under their own weight, which will doubtless hamper the flow of water and nutrients to the leaves... so perhaps this is a factor.
As it stands I'm just trimming off the leaves / stalks at their base as they wither and die, and will look to get some food for it at some point.
I think I'll probably end up at a point where all the original leaves are dead / gone while courting new growth from the middle - which isn't a bad thing considering how much of my table the existing ones had claimed..
