How do I bring this houseplant back to life!?

Wings_of_Ambition

'ello!

I rescued this houseplant from IKEA's bargain section for 50p, but am just wondering what the best way to bring it back to life is! There's always water in the bottom of the pot, but obviously not much opportunity for sunlight at the moment.

Do I cut the brown leaves off, and what about those leaves that have patches of brown on them? As a houseplant, should I even be putting it in sunlight?





Thx

Wings

corrag

Do you know what kind it is? The brown looks like scorch marks from water spray. Some plants don't like sprayed leaves. Personally I'd cut the brown leaves off to allow the plant to concerntrate on growing the good leaves. I'd give it a feed with baby-bio or something like that and try to find out what type it is.

faerie~spangles

The soil looks waterlogged, let it dry out a bit.

Personally I wouldn't feed it yet.

I'd also put it in a warm corner for wee while rather that sit it on a possibly draughty window ledge

As said above the leaves do look scorched.

malebolge

I'm a bit worried about your comment 'there's always water in the bottom of the pot'. Loads more plants are killed by overwatering than underwatering - it kills the small roots. It shouln't be stood in a tray that has water in it all the time. You do need to remove the brown leaves, but from the second photo there looks a lot of them, so I'd do that in stages so the plant can still photosynthesise. Cut off the most badly affected and wait to see if any new growth occurs before cutting off more.

I'd not worry too much about sunlight - even on dull days, there's still sunlight coming in, and most indoor plants prefer a moderate amount, rather than strong direct sun as that scorches. An important thing is to avoid big cganges in temperature and keep away from radiators. HTH

baza52

agree that the plant looks very overwatered.
Tip any water out and leave the plant for a few days so the roots can recover.
Waterlogged plants will suffocate within a short ammount of time.

Wings_of_Ambition

Okaaaaay, the water in the pot has been emptied out, some of the brown leaves chopped off, the plant is away from any radiators & draughts, and next-time I go shopping, will look at some baby-bio.

Fingers crossed that will kick-start the recovery

Thanks all!

walkers-crisps_are_evil

Another case of plant abuse by the stores:T
Got myself 2 salivia victims from Asda for 10p each recently. Sat in water to rehydrate soil and plant (think Mojave desert) and they come back real quick. Find myself stalking the plant isles looking for these cases:)

peter_the_piper

Saw some cucumbers at Hastings asda which were only at the cotyledon stage, should never have been for sale, the bedding had only been in their boxes for a couple of weeks as well. Disgrace.

mandragora_2

peter_the_piper wrote: »

Saw some cucumbers at Hastings asda which were only at the cotyledon stage, should never have been for sale, the bedding had only been in their boxes for a couple of weeks as well. Disgrace.

oo-errr. I'm a bit worried now in case you drop into our place - I do try to look after the wee plantlets here, honest.. I don't mean them to go that colour/shape

peter_the_piper

I can't imagine you would allow your plants to be as bad as this.

faerie~spangles

walkers-crisps_are_evil wrote: »

Another case of plant abuse by the stores:T
Got myself 2 salivia victims from Asda for 10p each recently. Sat in water to rehydrate soil and plant (think Mojave desert) and they come back real quick. Find myself stalking the plant isles looking for these cases:)

OH thinks I'm mad 'cause I rescue plants. :rotfl: