Rules for caring for dracaena at home in the photo and in the video
Dracaena is considered a plant of the humid tropics. Called a shrub, it can grow in one thick trunk up to 20 meters high. Among the many species in cultural breeding in unusual conditions, how much is used. As you can see in the photo, the dracaena will thank the hostess with a lush crown for caring care at home.
Dracaena flower, how to care at home
- Dracaena is fragrant, the plant blooms in favorable conditions even in the room.
- Dracaena Gosdef has oval variegated leaves.
- Marginata dracaena, which has leaves with a reddish border and a long bare stem.
Plants resembling palm trees are grown in spacious rooms with high ceilings. Dracaena Marginata is most suitable for these purposes, which can reach a height of three meters in a closed room.
Dracaena Sander is very decorative. It can be planted in one container for several copies and create artistic weaves from the stems.
However, only healthy plants delight with their beauty. If drying or deformation of the leaves begins, the plant is inhabited by insects or it does not receive sufficient care, such a specimen is unlikely to please the eye. Before purchasing a dracaena, you need to study the conditions of its maintenance. An unpretentious dracaena can be called relative to other tropical plants. She tolerates some of the inconveniences of the content, but there are factors that must be considered. See also beautiful plant tradescantia photo!
How to properly care for dracaena
The usual conditions for keeping any indoor flower include the requirements:
- temperature conditions;
- lighting;
- watering and feeding regime;
- drafts;
- especially in the care of dracaena.
It is easiest to create the right temperature conditions for the evergreen. Summer temperature 18-22 degrees in a closed room is created naturally. Many office buildings are air-conditioned; it is easy to create the right temperature in summer. By the way, in the summer, the dracaena can be placed in the open contour of a loggia or balcony.
Winter temperature 150 C is most conducive to content. Dracaena's viability is in the temperature range of 5-27 degrees.
How to care for dracaena in a pot if it does not tolerate direct sunlight, but loves good lighting. The south window is a taboo for plant placement. A special stand at a distance of one and a half meters from the window on a hot afternoon will protect the leaves from burns. Burn marks are visible as dark dots on the surface of the leaves; they remain for the entire time the leaf is sitting on the trunk. You can help get the desired luminous flux using artificial lighting. Dracaena with variegated foliage need more lighting.
Creation of a microclimate of humid tropics around a flower will be the most important task of preserving decorativeness. Moisture charging methods:
- spraying dracaena leaves;
- placement of evaporators;
- watering.
The higher the room temperature, the more care the plant needs. You can increase the humidity in the room using various evaporators. It can be diapers on radiators, an aquarium located nearby, a tray with pebbles and sphagnum moss, when moisture gradually evaporates into the air.
However, regular spraying of the plant with soft, settled water works most effectively. The plant must take a shower periodically.
As soon as the top layer of soil in the pot dries up in the warm season, it is necessary to water the plant abundantly. In winter, allow the soil to dry out for a week, since the winter period of keeping is dangerous by rotting roots in cold, moist soil.
The golden rule for all houseplants - it is better to dry than to pour - is relevant for dracaena.
Irrigation water must be passed through a charcoal filter. As a last resort, charcoal can be thrown into the water during settling. Fertilizers for dracaena can be used universal, but the content of traces of fluoride is unacceptable. In summer, the plant is fed every week, in winter - once a month.
Drafts are harmful to the plant. Dracaena loves fresh air. Therefore, airing must be carried out regularly, without frills.
It happens, with insufficient light, the plant is stretched out unnecessarily. Perhaps the trunk is bare, scarred by previously fallen leaves. This happens because the change of leaves is natural for dracaena. To shorten the plant and make it branch, you need to cut off the top with a stem 10-15 cm long. After that, put the plant in a dark place and do not water until new leaves appear on it. This will be a branching flower renewal.
The cut off part can be used to propagate dracaena. Open sections are always sprinkled with crushed coal or treated with garden pitch.
Transplanting an adult plant in caring for dracaena at home is considered the main condition for proper maintenance. In this case, the condition for the selection of the correct capacity is met. For a plant of 40 cm, a pot is needed with a diameter of 15 cm.
Young plants are transplanted annually in the spring. The soil is purchased as for a palm tree. A drainage layer is required. Watering the plant after transplanting is necessary, you can use fertilizing stimulating the growth of roots.
Dracaena flowering conditions at home
Subject to all conditions of keeping dracaena bloom. Fragrant dracaena is especially fragrant. Flowers develop for a long time, more than a year in the axils of the leaves, but then the brush fills the room with fragrance. Only 12 years later, a bordered dracaena can bestow yellow flowers, bringing a honey scent into the room.
Blooming at home is a rare phenomenon. More often you have to contemplate just beautiful healthy foliage.
Dracaena diseases and pests
How to care for dracaena at home if the tips of the leaves begin to dry out? This problem comes first. The leaves become unsightly, the decorativeness of the flower is violated:
- Dry air most often causes the tips of the sheets to dry out.
- Insufficient watering provokes drying of the leaf blades.
- Draft and prolonged exposure at an air temperature of less than 15 degrees will lead to the same effect.
Dry air in summer in hot weather will provoke the appearance of a spider mite. Yellow puncture marks appear on the leaves, later they merge into yellowness. A cobweb appears on the back of the plant, in which microscopic insects swarm. You can save the flower by first washing it under the shower, later by treating it with Fitoverm twice after half a month.
Dracaena is loved by the scale insect, which quickly spreads along the stem and leaves, bringing the plant to death. If the pests are single, you can remove them by washing, adding vodka to the soapy solution. If the infection is strong, you should use Actellik.
The mealybug is removed by washing the plant with soapy water. But it must be remembered that pests attack a weakened plant. Therefore, it is not enough to remove insects, you need to find a reason why they started up. Having destroyed the pests on the plant, it is necessary to process the windowsill and the area adjacent to the flower. You can find out the rules for caring for dracaena at home from the video.
HELLO! I HAVE GIVEN A DRACENA, 1 METER HEIGHT, BUT ITS PEOPLE POTATED WITH CLEAN ALCOHOL (I DON'T KNOW HOW IT TURNED OUT) - THE PLANT DIES HOW TO CURE PROMPT PLEASE THANK YOU!
It is necessary to immediately transplant the plant into new soil, thoroughly washing the roots. Remove any damaged roots immediately, and treat the rest with the root. If you're lucky, the plant will recover.
Good day. Dracaena in our office is about 1m tall. The leaves began to turn black - they cut off the bad ones. How to support the plant and how to avoid this in the future?
Good day! I got a dracaena from friends, she was very elongated, the trunk was thin and bald. The plant is old, transplanted 2 years ago, but nothing has changed much (
Your dracaena needs to be cut off urgently. So you can make an old plant beautiful and get cuttings for growing new specimens. Cut off each stem that comes from the ground. It is best to do this at different heights. Cover the sections with activated carbon or wood ash. After a while, just below the cuts, buds will begin to grow, gradually turning into a lush cap. Root the cut off tops and plant.
Hello, young leaves are falling (withering) at my flower and the extreme ones are crumbling. Watering 1 time in 6 days. What can be the reason and how to save? thank
And pests are not accidentally seen? Examine the leaves, especially the underside. Also wilting can be triggered by a draft. In severe cases, root decay is the cause. I would take a flower out of the pot and see what it has with its roots, if they are rotting. By the way, pests can settle there, eating up the plant from the inside.
Hello! My husband gave a dracaena a week ago, I transplanted it 2 days ago, and the leaves began to wither, tell me what could be with her?
Perhaps this is just a reaction to the transplant, or the root system was disturbed in the process. Watch the flower for a while.
Hello, tell me what to do! Recently I bought a large dracaena, brought it home, after two weeks its leaves began to turn yellow. I water it with settled water once a week.
This may be after stress, because in the store Dracaena lived in different conditions. Humidity is usually higher there than in apartments. After moving to a new place of residence, the flower adapts to new conditions of detention for the first couple of weeks. At this time, the leaves may turn yellow, but soon everything will work out.
Another reason could be transport soil. There are no nutrients in it, and plants are fed in stores thanks to fertilizers that are added to the water. I would wait another week, and if the yellowing does not stop, then I would transplant it into a fresh and nutritious substrate.
Hello! Tell me, please, otherwise I don't know what to do! Yesterday my husband and I bought a small dracaena - it is 30 cm high. On the shelf in the store there was a perfect one - the leaves were all raised up. Our house was far from the store where we bought the dracaena. It was cold outside, frost. They brought home - the lower leaves of the dracaena began to fall. Today I looked at her - she also has other leaves, even which in the center began to hang down and the leaves seemed to be broken. What to do with it, tell me, please? She begins to wither and die, perhaps after being transported in the frost and save her more or will she still recover? Thank you in advance!
Perhaps during transportation, the dracaena froze.Do not throw it away, give the flower time to come to its senses - even if the leaves throw off everything, there is always a chance that the root system will not die and the flower will release new shoots. With a complete loss of leaves, you can try to cut off the top, at the same time you will stimulate branching.
Hello. My broadleaf dracaena is very elongated, the trunk is bare, the leaves are curled and turn yellow, the tips of the leaves dry up. What to do??? There was such a beauty and now she is not happy at all. Is it possible to plant some kind of flower on it to create volume?
Dracaena leaves generally live for about 2 years, and then begin to dry out and gradually fall off, which causes the trunk to be exposed. Apparently, you have an adult plant, and they need to be replanted every three years. But if all the leaves dry and turn black at the tips, there may have been problems with watering. Broad-leaved dracaena need moisture more than species with narrow leaves, moreover, they do not like dry air, from which the tips dry out. It will be better to transplant the bush, and you can rejuvenate it right away by cutting off and rooting the top if the bare trunk is too long. After such a procedure, the flower will again be lush and beautiful.
Hello, how to separate such a dracaena process? It has become higher than the main flower and the trunks below are connected.
Why separate such a good process. You can create a beautiful two-tiered composition by cutting off the top of the head slightly above the main trunk. After some time, 2-3 branches are formed at the cut site. If you do decide to separate, there is a risk of losing the entire plant.
Hello, I have a fire and all the leaves are burnt, the main trunk is intact, and the processes are covered with wrinkles, apparently dried out. Transplanted into a new pot, the roots are intact. What to do next? Shorten the scions or cut the trunk completely down to them?
Start with the scions. Cut off gradually until a live stem appears. Next, feed the plant to grow the leaf mass.
Good day! I do not know what to do! This plant is in the office! the leaves are constantly darkening, what to do how to save! Can tell me how it is called correctly and what features of care. Thank!!!
This is one of the varieties of dracaena. Judging by the photo and the long trunk, the plant is already quite old. Although they had already tried to form it once (you can see the cut off top of the trunk, from which a new branch with leaves grows), the dracaena did not want to branch out and again gave one bud. In addition, the pruning was carried out too late: with age, the lower leaves on the stem fall off and new ones no longer grow there, which is why such a long, bare stem was formed. In fact, the flower is very beautiful and by competent pruning it is quite possible to form a compact, magnificent shape. I would rejuvenate the dracaena by cutting off and rooting the young top, because nothing can be done with it in this form. And over time, when the new plant stretches out a little, it will be necessary to cut off the top again, and then several buds will appear on it. More information about caring for dracaena can be found here https://myvilla.cosmetius.com/en/pravila-ukhoda-za-dracenoy-doma/.
She transplanted dracaena, the earth turned out to be with earthworms, in a year it began to disappear and crumble. She transplanted, having washed the roots, the icons continue to fade. How to reanimate?
I bought a dracaena, of this type. The leaves began to turn yellow, transplanted from a small pot to a more spacious one. There were a lot of roots, did I need to cut off a part of them and rinse them?
This is not a dracaena, but a bokarney. For the peculiar shape of the trunk, it is also called the bottle palm. This very bottle has the ability to store moisture.The yellowing of the leaves could be due to excess moisture, because you need to water the flower carefully. The pot for bokarnei should be wide, but not very deep (pot), because its root system is shallow. Regarding pruning and rinsing the roots, healthy roots do not need to be trimmed and processed. The bush is transplanted using the transshipment method. But if during transplanting you notice rotten roots, then the removal of all "bad" roots, washing and treatment with fungicide is simply a must. Read more about flower care here https://myvilla.cosmetius.com/en/ukhod-za-bokarneey-v-domashnikh-usloviyakh/.
Transplanted with the maximum possible lump. I water it. After the transplant, it was much better: they wither day by day. What to do??? Thank!
Perhaps the roots were still damaged. Or you fill it up and start to rot. Try adjusting watering. You can spill it with a growth stimulant and for the first time put the bag on the crown, but make holes in it for air to enter in small portions.
Hello, tell me please, the ends of the leaves began to dry on the dragon tree. What could be the reason
Olga, thank you!
Apparently, she poured ((((. You can find out: why do you need air access in small portions? Is the pot too big for her?
Thank.
Maybe the pot is a little too big, but I would not have pulled the bush back and forth without urgent need. Just try not to flood, so that the earth has time to dry out. Hopefully it has drain holes. And the holes in the bag will prevent the collection of condensate - you don't need to ventilate, otherwise you will suddenly forget ...
There can be many reasons. Take a look here https://myvilla.cosmetius.com/en/pochemu-sokhnut-konchiki-listev-draceny/... Different situations are described in detail here, maybe you will find your own.
They gave me cuttings of dracaena Sander. Please tell me to put them in the ground right away, or it's better to put them in the water and wait for the roots
Both methods work well. Personally, I prefer to immediately plant in a nutrient soil using root treatment. I place the handle under a transparent bag or flask. I am waiting for the appearance of 1-2 new leaves. I take off the cap and take care of the new plant.
Please tell me the name of this flower and how to care for it. Thank you in advance.
I bought a dracaena, after a few days three branches on the trunk fell off. I put them in separate pots. It seems to grow well, but the leaves are wrapped, why? And how to create something that there was a trunk, otherwise it grows with a bush
Perhaps they did not disappear in vain, but there was some kind of illness. Treat with a fungicide just in case. Regarding the formation, almost all dracaena grow arbitrarily into one trunk. You can make them branch and make a crown by trimming the top.
Good evening! Dracaena threw off all the leaves and the tops of the trunk dried up, can you somehow save it or not?
I have not yet seen such thick roots in dracaena ... The palm tree got sick, as evidenced by spots and cracks on the stems. Try replanting by changing the soil to fresh soil with fungicide treatment. You may need to trim the roots if they are rotten. I would cut the stems, leaving no more than ¼ of their height. And one more thing: where there is a fork on the old trunk, it seems that there are also cracks, or is it just a photo. Just in case, you can root the stem cutting, but clean, without traces of damage. Maybe everything will work out, but if time is lost and the dracaena dies, at least a new one will remain.
Hello!
Help save Dracaena!
Dracaena was purchased and transplanted in June 2018 and is recommended as a shade-loving plant (stood in a room on the north side). All summer, it slowly grew upward, but the tips of the leaves were already beginning to dry a little. Sprayed every day, watered as it dries.How autumn came, maybe because the daylight hours decreased, maybe because it became colder, although it may have gradually come to this, but the dracaena began to die. Began to water every other day, even less often. Now the dracaena has two completely rotted pillars, the earth dries out for a long time (transferred to a lighter room, but also on the north side of the house), the leaves are drying. Please help with two questions:
1. How to properly remove two completely rotten pillars with minimal effort? Please note that the tree is huge, heavy and I cannot pull it out by the root.
2. What should I fix in the care to save the plant? I can move it to a room on the south side, where the earth will most likely dry faster. I read that you don't need to spray it at all. What to believe? The photo still shows white dots, like mold, what to do with this?
Thank you in advance for your answer!
Of course, the photo is not very clearly visible, but these white spots are more like insects. I would donate the pot if the bush is difficult to just remove. If it rots, and the soil does not dry out for a long time, problems with the root system are inevitable. Plus pests, they can live in the ground. You need to change the soil and examine the roots. They probably rot, too. Stems that are sick should be cut to living tissue and sprinkled with charcoal. Rotten roots are also trimmed, and the flower is treated with a fungicide. The drug Guapsin has proven itself well - it is effective in diseases, and also gets rid of pests. The leaves can be additionally washed with green soap.
As for care, dracaena love moist air, so you still need to spray, but without fanaticism. Watering should be moderate, in winter once a week is enough. Dracaena does not need the southern window, it will be too bright there, except on the table near the window. For comparison, I can tell you about the observations of my flower. While she was little, she grew beautifully on the northern window, watered more often in summer, in winter it was wet for a week. Now the bush on the window no longer fits, she lowered it to the floor in the same northern room - so the young leaves brightened, which means there is little light. She spent the summer on the street, on the porch - then she sprayed it every day, in winter I sometimes wipe the leaves. Here is such a whim. So, if your dracaena grew beautifully in the same place, it means that everything suited her and the point here is not where she stands. Perhaps it was simply transfused - treat it.
Can you tell me what kind of plant they gave me?
It looks like a room palm, perhaps one of the varieties of yucca or dracaena, I find it difficult to say for sure
Hello, we gave the flower in this state (photo), what to do with it? how to save?
It is not very clear from the photo, but, in my opinion, the lower part of your dracaena is still alive. But the top is gone. Trim the stems until you reach the live part. Perhaps only the lower main trunk will be alive and these two tops will have to be removed. It's okay, dracaena starts up lateral buds well and will recover. Do not forget to sprinkle the crushed charcoal on the cuts. I would change the land. Although it is undesirable to carry out transplanting and pruning at the same time, since it disappears ... Perhaps the roots are rotting there. If you have rotten roots, you will need to spill with a fungicide. And one more thing: put cellophane bags on the cut tops to create a greenhouse effect. When the kidneys wake up, they can be removed.
I cut off the upper trunks, but I touch the trunk near the ground, and it is soft. And the cuts are wet and blackened ... Maybe you can cut off some whole stem and it will take root?
If the trunk is soft, then it is rotten and there will be no sense from it. Can be rooted with a stem cuttings if you find a live part.
Please tell me what to do for my dracaena. She is over 10 years old. She was tall with a bare trunk. I took a chance, cut it short. There were 3 branches on one leg. Soon there were shoots-pieces 7. But, for more than two months now, they have not been moving. Growth froze and does not seem to die. And all the time there is a white bloom on the surface of the earth. I pour it with settled water. Not often, I'm afraid to overflow. The pot is large. With the current spacing height of 40cm, the diameter and height of the pot is 27x20cm. The root system is large. Land in a pot for palm trees. But, this white bloom ...
White bloom can mean either mold or salt. Judging by the photo, in your case it is a dry bloom, which means, most likely, the problem is in the water. It is too hard and the salts come to the surface. This often happens, but, as a rule, it does not particularly affect the general development of plants. Transplant or simply change the topsoil periodically. And the stop of growth of the palm tree could be associated with the winter period, when there is little sun. Now is the time to feed the bush and stimulate its further growth.
Good day!
When moving the office, colleagues wanted to throw out the dracaena, which had long been "written off". Took her home, transplanted her. Dracaenka just perked up, turned green. Now I thought about branching it, but I never did it. Please tell me if my actions will ruin the plant and at what distance from the ground is it better to prune it?
Thank!
I would cut at the point where the stem begins to curve. Do not be afraid, this will not harm the dracaena, moreover, it will become more magnificent. And the cut off top can be rooted. Just shorten it a little, and just plant it in a pot. You don't even need to cover it - the dracaena has good roots, it has been tested on personal experience. And don't forget to sprinkle the cut with crushed activated carbon.
Thank you so much!
Hello! Tell me how to save the dracaena !!! everything was fine: it grew fluffy, it seemed to watered correctly, and stood in the same place. Two months ago, the leaves began to wither and fall away straight from the trunk ... I decided to transplant, there were no rotten roots , I did not notice the parasites either. The transplant did not help, I had to cut off one stem today, because all the leaves are practically fallen. Help save my little one !!!
Look at her ... Try to treat it with a fungicide. If possible, you can cut and root the top so as not to lose the flower at all.
Hello, please tell me why only the branches of the flower stretch out into not the whole trunk and leaves only at the very top, and almost all the branches are bare and very thin, high
If the dracaena has stretched branches, this means that it lacks lighting. Moreover, just the young flexible tops begin to stretch in search of the sun. The central trunk itself lignifies with age, so this does not happen to it. But the fact that he loses foliage is a natural phenomenon and characteristic of dracaena. Therefore, it needs to be cut and shaped. Otherwise, you will have a thin long stick with a bun on top of your head.
Try to start doing it now, especially since spring is in the yard - the perfect time for pruning. Note how high the old trunk you would like to keep, and cut the rest. Sprinkle the cut with crushed activated carbon and wrap it in a plastic bag to keep the air moist. After a while, buds will wake up at the top and side branches will appear at the dracaena. Just do not hide the pot again in a dark place, otherwise this one will stretch out. By the way, you can plant young cut tops.