Ich habe diesen Baum vor 1,5 Monaten vom FB-Marktplatz abgeholt und seitdem lässt er ständig Blätter fallen.
Dachten Sie, es läge am Stress durch den Umzug? Vielleicht? Ich dachte, es wäre unter Wasser, also habe ich zugenommen. Überwasser? Da ich keine Wurzelfäule möchte, habe ich mich zurückgezogen und die Erde noch etwas trocknen lassen. Da ich es für zu kalt hielt, stellte ich es an einen wärmeren Ort. Nicht genug Licht? Stellen Sie es an einen besser beleuchteten Ort. Nichts hat funktioniert. Es fallen 4-5 Tropfen pro Tag an, manchmal ein ganzes Bündel auf einmal.
Irgendeine Idee, was mir helfen könnte, diesen Baum zu stabilisieren? Danke!
Von: unbrandedd
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Mine likes lots of light. I had her outside all summer in direct sunlight and she thrived (but mine is variegated). I had to put a grow light directly on her when I brought her inside and that helped.
How long did it take to get that big? I can just chop it to keep it bushy right? Tall boi
Edit, of course I didn’t read the whole post first lol. you probably don’t know but if they told you how old it is I’d love to know
Mine does this too and I found out it’s when it’s not getting enough humidity! Try a small humidifier nearby and see if it stops!
***stop**** moving the plant around. I went through this exact same thing with the larger one of these that I brought home so you can learn from my mistakes if you’d like to.
So I think there are two things going on the first any time of plan moved this can trigger a survival response due to the uncertain conditions plants especially these may drop their lower leaves as those are the ones that are less likely to receive and they shifted their gross to likely be more light. These types of plants losing leaves when they are removed I think could be inevitable, especially when they’re larger, but I’m not certain on this. That’s just my theory. so I highly suggest you just pick the ultimate spot that it’s going to be in and leave it there and consider whether you want to risk even more loss if you move it from wherever it is right now.
It’s probably receiving insufficient light. One thing having this plant has taught me is that while they can tolerate lower light conditions if they’ve been growing in an area with higher light conditions, and they are moved to one and lower light conditions they are not acclimated to the lower light conditions and will deteriorate. This can be mitigated if you acclimate them slowly into lower conditions. I think this concept is kind of hard to follow sometimes because if you’re like me, you have a lot of philodendron that are resilient and you can move them around neglect and beat them up and they still do fine but these kinds of plants are more sensitive it would seem.
This is a beautiful plant wherever it goes. I know you said you gave it more light, but I just recently took a new Light Meter that I got to start measuring how much plants my lights were getting that have been there for a long time and doing well and I was shocked by how little light they were getting and still thriving once I used this meter so consider whether it’s possible you think that it wasn’t getting enough light before you gave it more light and then even after you gave it more light maybe it was still not getting enough light because you’re really just guessing if you’re not measuring the light. More over if you’re not measuring the light, you don’t have any metrics upon which to assess to confirm the light is no longer the problem.
I suggest you consider getting a Light Meter to ensure it’s getting adequate light. There are two ways to go here. For $12 on Amazon get a Light Meter that measures visible light candles or lux. This does not measure the actual relevant metric, which is photosynthetic light. But it can be helpful especially given that that photosynthetic light are super expensive like they can be over $1000. However, recently found one on Amazon for $50 less than that maybe it’s a lot lower quality but what I have learned from it in the short time that I’ve had it just really surprised me. I thought my plans were getting a lot more light.
https://www.houseplantjournal.com/bright-indirect-light-requirements-by-plant/
Here is a very helpful article on this topic. It teaches you how to measure light in about what kind of light and how much our plants need. This guy is an outstanding resource. I have his books and I follow him. He’s one of the smartest guys out there on this topic. He’s an engineer by trade and he applies that plants. He’s rather brilliant actually.
Next, I say this is somebody who has a debilitating anxiety disorder so I totally get how you’re trying to figure out what’s going on with the plant but when you’re giving it more water than it needs stink that might be dead and moving it around it just makes things worse I would prepare yourself for more leaf loss and powering through until it starts to get better. Mine was ill faded, and I can tell you it was not easy on my anxiety. Room temperate is okay. If you’re getting a draft , you need to protect the plant from the draft not try to regulate the temperate as that won’t solve the root cause.
If your substrate is sufficiently well draining, it will not get root rot if you give it a deep drink. If you used a normal potty mix and did not amend it with additional per light vermiculite or sand and I’d say probably at least 15% 20% then you might not have sufficiently well draining substrate. It’s hard to give much insight on this since I had known nothing about your substrate, but this is something to think about Where you have a problem, even if it is sufficiently draining if you give it too much water too frequently the substrate doesn’t have dry roots without oxygen But if you’re just giving a drink once that’s different and the substrate will not become waterlogged in that case
Hope this helps !
One way to explain how dropping leaves can occur from light changes: The chlorophyll molecule which uses sun to make food for the plant will be deeper in the leaf if the plant gets plenty of sun. If grown in less sun, the chlorophyll is closer to the leaf surface. If you move the plant to less sun, the plant can’t move the chlorophyll molecule around in the leaf. So in less light, a leaf that developed in sun will no longer be able to get enough sun to be manufacturing food for the plant & the plant drops it’s now useless leaf. Conversely, leaves suddenly getting more sun than they developed in will burn. Any new leaves that grow will have the chlorophyll set in the leaf at the correct depth for it’s new situation.
Also keep in mind that the fewer leaves a plant has, the less water it can use. Allow the soil to get fairly dry between waterings, but water thoroughly when it is dry. Sometimes if the pot is full of roots & the soil dries completely, water will run off the surface & down the sides of the pot & not be penetrating to the center of the root ball.
These guys are a lot like ficus. You look at them wrong—SORRY, no leaves left for you! Stop moving it and let it be, especially over winter months. Moderate light, but I would significantly lower water. Try to keep him away from drafts/heating units. They can take forever to stabilize, but hopefully come spring you can figure out a forever home. Beautiful plant!