Cordyline Australis Help!!

Gardening_newbie

Hello good morning,
I need some advice from you experts out there. Our friends wanted to get rid of their Cordylines so we happily said we wanted them. We know the difficulty in moving them but we took good advice and we’re extremely careful with the roots. They’ve been here for about 4 weeks and have plenty of space but one of the 3 is very yellow and brown at the bottom, the other seems ok for now and the other one is starting to brown on the leaves at the bottom. We really don’t know what to do but want to save them. Anyone have any ideas what we could do to help them?

-taff

Keep them watered well [even though they should be in a free draining soil] ad maybe spray the leaves with water too. You can also give them a feed.

Those browning leaves can be cut off against the trunk/bottom.
Only time will tell if they will take or not.

Gardening_newbie

I was anxious I’d over watered them? As some websites said the yellowing was a sign of over watering?

-taff

what kind of soil have you planted them in?

Gardening_newbie

They’re in a multipurpose compost. Is that good or bad?

-taff

It's ok, but keep it on the drier side for the yellowing one. You've done all you can do for now.
Might be worth asking here...
https://www.hardytropicals.co.uk/forum/

tori.k

John innis no3 would have been better but fully understand not wanting peat based compost they need plenty of grit and drainage if being kept in a pot.

Gardening_newbie

Thanks so much everyone I just hope they last. We’re trying to help them so I’ll keep my fingers crossed 🤞🏼