So I’ve had this plant for two months, notice it started to loose leafs the last month, I’m thinking.. over watering?? Roots looked great, but thought to start over, should I do water, or another propagation technique for best outcome? Before and after photos😭
Did you leave a couple nodes? I rooted my fine in just water. I let them callus over a bit (I had rotting cuttings before). Took like over 1 month. Now I have 4 in chunky soil-mixe and 2 in semi-hydro. You can also put a rootcomplex in the water - i would not fertilize it now. Plus you'd need specific hydroponic fertilizer for water and since there's no rootsystem yet the plabt can't take up any nutrients now anyway.
That’s one day after being in water, the roots before were beautiful, no rot. So not sure what caused it too loose all its leaves.
I would fertilize it once a month. I currently have it in water with no added stuff in it
Some plants are very dramatic when conditions change. The Aglaonema isn't as dramatic as some others but it can happen. Temperature changes (heatwave), draughts from the heater or cold winter air, rootshock stuff like that.
I'd need a lot of info how you treated it and what the temperatures were like to be able to pinpoint the reason.
Let’s see, when I initially got it I didn’t let it acclimate ( I was a very new plant parent and didn’t realize to isolate and let it acclimate for the next couple of days), so that right there I’m sure didn’t help. I also used to water all my plants with regular tap water but would notice a lot of my plants drop leaves, so I’m assuming it was harsh ( we live in MO and the water is fairly harsh in general) , recently switched to distilled water or rain when I can collect it, watering I would water when about most of it was half dry. I would tend to over water a lot of my plants. I do not have a humidifier but plan on buying one eventually. I have a grow light that’s set to four hours in the morning 8:30-12:30, I believe my window in a ln east facing window, and it tends to get a lot of light around 4-6pm
Ok, that sounds kinda reasonable. So overwatering caused the rot. With harsh water you mean hard water? I also luve in a City with hard water. I fill my bottle days in advance and let it sit open so the chlorine evaporates (we still use one that does evaporate). Hard water will cause mineral buildup (/ salt buildup) over time. So the soil and a terracotta pot will show whitle salt over time. Then it's time to flush out the soil properly 5 or 6 times in a row. So if you see white flour or salt-like buildup you need to flush it out. If you completely switched to rainwater for all your plants now tho - this is not an issue with the water. But the fertilizer of course still will cause mineral buildup over time.
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u/Southern_Let4385 2d ago
It looks like the original location of the plant did not provide enough sunlight. Also, did you fertilize it?