Help! Lola the mass cane is drying up but the pothos shar...
1ft to light, indirect
12” pot with drainage
Last watered 2 years ago
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@Sarvesh I’ll be interested to see what’s going on. Because your Dracaena looks so dry, I wonder if it can’t compete for resources, so it’s drying out. Or… I wonder if that pot is too small for both of them. Reason being, your pothos looks pretty well established and its root system is probably pretty big, but your Dracaena is also big and will have its own root system; so maybe it’s too many roots for that one pot.
The way the leaves on your Dracaena are “turning off” and wilting at the edges, makes me wonder if it’s root bound. When you separate them, be aware a Dracaena’s roots can have almost a rusty look, or colored (they’ll feel firm and healthy, but they aren’t white). The Dracaena also has a finer root system than a pothos, so it may be easier to separate your pothos cuttings out of the Dracaena vs the other way around. Good luck!
PS - there may be two types of Pothos in there as well, so… you’ll get a three-fer! Yay, three plants in one pot!
The way the leaves on your Dracaena are “turning off” and wilting at the edges, makes me wonder if it’s root bound. When you separate them, be aware a Dracaena’s roots can have almost a rusty look, or colored (they’ll feel firm and healthy, but they aren’t white). The Dracaena also has a finer root system than a pothos, so it may be easier to separate your pothos cuttings out of the Dracaena vs the other way around. Good luck!
PS - there may be two types of Pothos in there as well, so… you’ll get a three-fer! Yay, three plants in one pot!
@EZLennyLance I haven’t! I bought them this way in one pot and didn’t even know they were separate plants until recently :( novice plant dad over here. But the pothos is definitely taking off so I think you are right. I will take a look at the root systems tonight and try to separate…
Oohh another thought, check and see if they’ve separated the plants in the pot in some way. Meaning, maybe you’re not watering them both, because they’re separated, like the pothos is in its own wrap around planter on top of the Dracaena’s soil; so the Dracaena’s isn’t getting watered? Maybe that isn’t the case, but I was thinking it’s a possibility.
Wow thank you so much @EZLennyLance for all this information! I did take your advice and separated the pothos plants and you were right…there were not one or two but THREE separate pothos plants I was able to extract and plant in different pots! So exciting. Now Lola the mass cane is in her own pot but I was concerned because her own root system was not so big and they were fairly easy to extract from the pothos which were wrapped around the edges. The roots seemed healthy and felt firm, I wish I had taken a picture to show here.
@Sarvesh if the root system of the Dracaena is not enough to support itself, which that may be why the leaves are shutting off, you can propagate it and root those cuttings and get it stronger. Here is a link to an article with videos as well on demonstrations of types of propagation.
https://plantnative.org/how-to-propagate-dracaena.htm
You could cut that bud and see if it’ll root and you could cut the stalk into multiple cuttings, check on the videos in the article it’ll walk you through it. Good luck, with more resources and a stronger root system, I hope your Dracaena can recover and thrive.
https://plantnative.org/how-to-propagate-dracaena.htm
You could cut that bud and see if it’ll root and you could cut the stalk into multiple cuttings, check on the videos in the article it’ll walk you through it. Good luck, with more resources and a stronger root system, I hope your Dracaena can recover and thrive.
