Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => General Gardening => Topic started by: hubballi on December 17, 2012, 07:22
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This is yet another houseplant I can't seem to keep alive. It's an ivy with the more rounded leaves I got from Ikea. I keep it's soil moist but the leaves are shriveling and dropping off, mainly from the base.
The last ivy I bought did the same but I managed to revive it though it's nothing like it used to be. In fact, it is secreting a sticky substance.
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Sounds like it has greenfly on it, if it has sticky stuff
You must be the unluckiest grower (or non-grower) I have come across hubbali.
All of your posts are about veg or houseplants that you cannot grow :ohmy:
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There are no greenfly on it.
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When you say you keep the soil 'moist', what sort of container is it sitting in?
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The bath ?
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Maybe the roots are not the one's lacking moisture.
Dry air ?
Try keeping the compost moist, but letting it become dryish before watering again.
Stand the pot in a wide tray of damp pebbles, so water evaporates & moistens the air around the plant, a light misting may help.
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is it pot bound?
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It's in a pot but not pot bound.
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The leaves are still dropping even though some of them are not dry and look healthy. All the new shoots that will produce leaves are drying and shriveling before they develop. Soil is moist but not wet. If I leave it to dry out the same still happens.
If I keep moist they die.
Dy they die.
What else can I do ?
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Whatever it is that you're doing to that ivy, try to replicate the same conditions for that troublesome sycamore growing out of your house foundations :blink:
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Perhaps the compost is too wet? Have you got the plant standing in a tray and if so have you got some shingle in the tray to keep the plant from getting too wet?
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Plant is in a pot inside a ceramic larger pot. Soil is only moist. Not in shingle. Perhaps it is not humid enough ?
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I find ivy does not grow well indoors for me either.
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Keep it away from the Central heating radiator's, the dry air around the rad's kill's most house plant's.
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Ivy tends to like dry shady for its roots so maybe your soil needs to have some extra drainage material added - often plants bought from garden centres are just potted into a light substrate to reduce weight in handling. I'd certainly let it dry out, sometimes we can kill with kindness. Doesn't appreciate hot either.
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Letting it dry out is causing it to shed it's leaves which are almost all gone now.
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Put it in the bin me dear :)
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Or plant him outside.
Bin Aunty ? :-[
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Put it in the bin me dear :)
Seems a bit harsh.
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kept it sprayed with mist, kept in bathroom and yet the leaves are all nearly dead :(