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Posted 6M ago by @ashbonet

It’s sadly declining. I am not sure what I’m doing wrong....

#Dracaena
2ft to light, direct
3” pot without drainage
Last watered 5 months ago
If a pot doesn’t have drainage the first thing I would check is how wet the soil is. Greg can sometimes suggests you water it more frequently than it actually needs.
Do not use tap water. they are sensitive to stuff like chlorine and salts in tap water. I have a very good filter (ClearlyFiltered) that gets out chlorine, heavy metals, fluoride, etc, if you don’t have anything higher quality than a generic brita, pur, or charcoal filter then just get a gallon of spring or distilled water from the pharmacy and use that when it’s time to water.

Water it so sparingly that a bystander would think you’re trying to neglect it to death. I routinely fail to water my dragon trees for weeks after their self watering pots run dry and they seem to thrive on it.

Your plant card also says you have it configured as being in a 3” pot… your pot is definitely much bigger, Greg is going to be giving you recs that are way too frequent if it thinks your pot is that small.