Black Thumb of Doom! Help clear my plant better?
It was growing fine within the corner of our house. Then I moved it (because I had furniture that be going there.) to surrounded by front of the kitchen window. Was gone two days, and its drooping, and adjectives the leaves are starting to fall past its sell-by date. My boyfriend said it got to much sun and moved it shaded. Now its looking even worse.
Anyone know something that will help perk up this plant?
Answers: Ok - you're both right - sort of. What you're growing sounds resembling pothos ivy. It has heart-shaped leaves, and some variety have variegated "streaky" leaves.
What this type of ivy wants more than anything is WATER. If it's a pothos, it can grow in plain sea with a tiny bit of fertilizer added (I hold seen them within hospitals in big Ehrlenmeyer flasks along near a betta fish - the extra fish-food and the fish waste provided the fertilizer!) It doesn't call for direct sun, but it DOES need plenty of fluffy. It sounds like it get too dry, because sun alone won't cause the leaves to drop stale (sun will cause them to "burn," but not drop sour if it's getting water). Make sure it has three things: hose down, bright light, and a bit of food, and you'll be fine.
There ARE species of philodendrons that look resembling a pothos. They need soil. The easiest style to tell a philodendron from an ivy is that the ivy have "nodes" along the stem that will be roots if it is placed along the ground, but a philodendron doesn't; the philodendron also has a papery "sheath" out of which foreign leaves grow, while a pothos simply has modern leaves that form up against the stem and "unfurl". They should be in a pot of soil, and should be surrounded by bright but filtered neutral - no direct sunlight. They CANNOT grow in plain hose down - they'll die very speedily if overwatered. The soil should stay moist, and should be able to drain properly (drainage hole contained by the pot is a must).
It's up to you to decide which you hold, of course; BOTH will do find contained by the conditions for a philodendron, but only the pothos can live within water. A pot of moist soil that drains all right, a fertilizer spike, and a moderate amount of light, and they should both be fine.
Good luck.
Sounds approaching a case of overwatering or underwatering if it is drooping. You may also enjoy shocked it if was impossible to getting direct sun and you suddenly put it in a hugely hot sunny window. Most of the viney house plants;pothos, philodendron etc. require remarkably little light, but will do OK surrounded by higher neutral, but you can't change things drastically overnight.
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