Don't ignore curled leaves on money trees or yellowing gardenias - watch out for big problems

The most heartbreaking thing in summer is that as the weather gets hotter and hotter, the plants at home all start looking terrible, terrible, terrible... Gardenias turning yellow, succulents growing leggy, money trees curling up... Today Huahua will teach everyone how to get these ruined plants back into shape!

Money tree leaves turning yellow, curling and drooping?

Symptoms of decline

Money tree leaves tend to have problems as soon as summer arrives - turning yellow, curling, drooping and wilting, making you want to yank it bald!

Causes of decline:

Simple - either too much water or too much fertilizer has damaged the roots, or too little water or too much light has damaged the leaves!

Solutions

1. Keep in indirect light and mist more:

Remove the yellow leaves, place in indirect light, water every 3 days, and mist the leaves morning and evening every day - leaves that are too dry will curl.

2. Increase ventilation:

Money trees have weak root systems and hate stuffiness. In summer, be sure to open windows for ventilation. If you've watered too much, pour off the standing water immediately, then move the pot outdoors to speed up evaporation.

3. Trim the roots

: When

the base of the trunk turns somewhat black, it means the roots may have rotted. Remove the plant from the pot promptly, clean away the rotted parts, disinfect, then repot with fresh soil.

Gardenia leaves turning yellow and dropping?

Symptoms of decline

Just after the gardenia's blooming period, the leaves start turning yellow and wilting in waves, and keep dropping - it's about to become a bare stick!

Causes of decline

1. Overwatering:

When watered too much and the potting soil is too heavy and clayey with poor aeration, yellow leaves easily result. Old and new leaves turn yellow from the bottom up in sequence until they drop.

Solutions:

During the dog days of summer, water evaporates quickly, so you can water daily or every 2-3 days, depending on how wet or dry the soil is, keeping it slightly moist but not waterlogged.

Note:

It's best to let tap water sit for a day or two before watering, otherwise yellow leaves are likely!

2. Too much fertilizer burning the roots:

Fertilizing too often in summer or at too high a concentration will damage the roots, causing both leaf veins and leaf blades to turn yellow - in severe cases the roots rot directly and the plant dies!

Solutions:

If you've over-fertilized, immediately soak the pot in water, or run a slow stream of water through the roots for half an hour to dilute it.

Note:

In summer, apply a thin dose of compound fertilizer once a month - once the temperature rises to 35°C, stop fertilizing.

3. Iron deficiency:

Gardenias deficient in iron easily develop chlorosis - the leaf veins stay green while the leaf blades turn completely yellow, and in severe cases this also causes drying and dropping.

Solutions:

Dilute ferrous sulfate tablets with water at 500 times, then spray on the leaves once a week.

Succulents growing leggy and falling over?

Symptoms of decline

In summer you didn't dare give succulents too much sun, and as a result they grew crooked and leggy as hell!

Causes of decline

Succulents go downhill easily - with lots of water and little light, the stems stretch out, the leaves get thinner, and eventually they're too ugly to look at.

Solutions:

For succulents that have already gone leggy, either work at turning them into old stumps, or behead them and let them regrow. In normal care, you can moderately increase light and water only when the soil is dry.

Tips:

Although succulents grow slowly in summer, don't be afraid of sunlight - about 1-2 hours of sun around 3 pm will keep them short and plump (strong light for short periods).

Fellow plant lovers, have you all learned it?

Have your plants gone downhill?

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