- Fri Jun 21, 2024 10:57 pm
#452874
I’ve got plant problems this month-plural, and I’m trying to figure them out so I can potentially fix the problems.
I’ve had this ping since March and it was doing great until a couple of weeks ago, and I didn’t change anything so I’m puzzled.
Last month I saw these thin little white strands going across the bottom leaves but they had been there for a bit and didn’t seem to be an issue. When I took a pair of tweezers to try to get them off because I thought it was cat hair or something I realized they were attached and I left them alone.
The last couple weeks I’ve noticed that the plant looked to be not only halted in growth but smaller. I got them in some strong natural light and noticed that there’s a ring of dead leaves at the bottom and some other ones are shriveling.
I have them under a couple sansei grow lights which are 20W together. I thought they might need more at first, but they were flourishing really. I have them in the soil mix that I bought from carnivorous plants which is perlite, peat, and vermiculite 2/1/1 approximately. Pot is about 3 1/2w by 3 deep. It gets about 14 hours under the grow light daily. I tray water a bit usually about once a week. I have been considering switching to top watering as the top media always seems dry even after it’s done taking water. This past water I did a bit from top after tray again left the top too dry for my liking. I really haven’t changed my care of it since I believe mid April (I’d have to look at when I lost my Cyclosecta) when I started watering it less due to paranoia that it would also get browning heart disease. From then until a couple weeks ago it kept growing larger and was healthy, so I don’t know what changed.
I’m going to include a pic from May and a couple I took today-
May picture above Pics from today
I’ve had this ping since March and it was doing great until a couple of weeks ago, and I didn’t change anything so I’m puzzled.
Last month I saw these thin little white strands going across the bottom leaves but they had been there for a bit and didn’t seem to be an issue. When I took a pair of tweezers to try to get them off because I thought it was cat hair or something I realized they were attached and I left them alone.
The last couple weeks I’ve noticed that the plant looked to be not only halted in growth but smaller. I got them in some strong natural light and noticed that there’s a ring of dead leaves at the bottom and some other ones are shriveling.
I have them under a couple sansei grow lights which are 20W together. I thought they might need more at first, but they were flourishing really. I have them in the soil mix that I bought from carnivorous plants which is perlite, peat, and vermiculite 2/1/1 approximately. Pot is about 3 1/2w by 3 deep. It gets about 14 hours under the grow light daily. I tray water a bit usually about once a week. I have been considering switching to top watering as the top media always seems dry even after it’s done taking water. This past water I did a bit from top after tray again left the top too dry for my liking. I really haven’t changed my care of it since I believe mid April (I’d have to look at when I lost my Cyclosecta) when I started watering it less due to paranoia that it would also get browning heart disease. From then until a couple weeks ago it kept growing larger and was healthy, so I don’t know what changed.
I’m going to include a pic from May and a couple I took today-
May picture above Pics from today
Keep your head up! Comin at ya from zone 6a