Asparagus fern in a crystal pot turns yellow as soon as you bring it home? Learn these 2 tricks to prevent trouble before it starts

The last thing asparagus fern owners want to see is yellow leaves on their asparagus fern. Indeed, asparagus fern turns yellow very easily, a bit like a girl throwing a little tantrum - the slightest disagreement and the leaves go yellow. Just recently, the little gardener's friend bought a very beautiful asparagus fern and kept it in a crystal pot like this, but it looks good yet is useless - it turned yellow not long after coming home. What to do?

1. The "crystal pot" asparagus fern - yellow leaves are such a headache

What the little gardener means is this asparagus fern in the photo above. This is a self-watering asparagus fern; its design is that you add water inside, and then it waters itself automatically. Let's zoom in and take a look, as in the photo below. Its main growing medium inside is moss, and owners all know that moss holds water extremely well, but an asparagus fern like this is indeed the most prone to yellow leaves.

2. Bought from the flower shop and brought home - the peak period for yellow leaves

If too much water is put in the crystal pot below, the moss becomes too wet, and then the roots of the asparagus fern are essentially soaking in water all the time. At this point, if ventilation is even slightly poor, the leaves turn yellow immediately. This is one of the most common causes of yellow leaves. On top of that, this asparagus fern has just been brought home and still needs some time to adapt to its new environment, and this period is also a peak time for yellow leaves.

3. When you see yellow leaves, deal with the yellow leaves

When yellow leaves appear, they mostly look like those in the photo, starting from the tips of the leaves. If not dealt with in time, this yellowing will keep spreading. So at this point we need to do two things: first, prune the yellowed parts, and second, make sure there is ventilation. It is now September, and when it is dry we should mist in time to raise humidity, but do not put too much water in the crystal pot.

4. To reduce yellow leaves on asparagus fern, start with two things

Actually, a lazy-person asparagus fern pot like this is very prone to yellow leaves, because it has higher environmental demands during care. If owners want to grow a pot like this well, first, you must make sure the placement environment is well ventilated; second, the air quality must be good. If asparagus fern encounters stale air, it also easily turns yellow. These are the basic requirements.

Also, when we are caring for it, if your asparagus fern does not like to push out new leaves and only likes to turn yellow, then it may be lacking trace elements. In our regular care, fertilize it periodically with an organic plant nutrient solution to supplement nutrition and strengthen the roots. Only when the roots are strong can yellow leaves on asparagus fern be fundamentally reduced. Asparagus fern does not like strong fertilizer or stale fertilizer, so we had better use an organic nutrient solution fermented from plants.

So, when owners buy asparagus fern, the little gardener still recommends buying the kind grown in a normal flower pot. This crystal pot asparagus fern looks good but is useless, and is a bit harder to care for. We also need to learn well the anti-yellow-leaf methods mentioned above, to prevent trouble before it starts.