How to Care for dumb canes: Mastering Water, Sunlight & More

How to care for dumb canes

How often to water your dumb canes

dumb canes needs 0.5 cups of water every 9 when it doesn’t get direct sunlight and is potted in a 5" pot.

Use our water calculator to personalize watering recommendations to your environment or download Greg for more advanced recommendations for all of your plants.

Water 0.5 cups every
9

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☀️ Light

Finding light for dumb canes in your home

dumb canes may have difficulty thriving, and will drop leaves 🍃, without ample sunlight.

Place it less than 3 feet from a south-facing window to maximize the potential for growth.

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🪴 Nutrients

How to fertilize dumb canes

Nutrient, fertilizer, and repotting needs for dumb canes: repot after 2X growth

Most potting soils come with ample nutrients which plants use to produce new growth.

By the time your plant has depleted the nutrients in its soil it’s likely grown enough to need a larger pot anyway.

To replenish this plant's nutrients, repot your dumb canes after it doubles in size or once a year—whichever comes first.

Yellow spots on dumb cane Was given a dumb cane and everything was going fine until I noticed small yellow spots all over the leaves. Tried spraying neem oil a couple of times over the past couple of weeks. It has infected the new shoot. What should I do? It’s placed very near a window that’s usually left ajar to let some wind in. And it can get pretty windy sometimes. Could that be a contributing factor?