Hiya, I'm not sure what this means really.
My Easter Cacti have always lost a leaf segment or two every now and then since I've had them, but over the last month or so they've been aborting large sections of stems. I just come home to find 3 or 4 leaf segments on the floor. They are both in flower and flowering heavily. I'm keeping them watered and fed with seaweed. The humidity around them is never really under 80% and they're in medium light, not direct light.
They're in very tiny little pots that i bought them in about a year ago and they're growing tiny, thin white roots out of the medium upwards towards the air. I didn't take much notice of this as I understood these were epiphytes and would do this anyway.
I have thought that they're quiet pot bound but didn't want to repot them when they were in flower.
The temperature is never too low I don't think because it's a warm all the time. Never too warm....you know...like a happy room temperature and the radiator is never on. I water with rain water.
Now it's obvioulsy my growing conditions that this is happening because my little citrus tree, a calamondin, when I bought it was just a twig with about 5 or 6 leaves on it. I repotted it into an open mixture of peat, perlite and coconut fibre. It sits directly under a skylight so gets full sun and is fed a tiny bit every week. Week after repotting it opened up about 7 new growth points on the main stems and it's now twice as mushy as it used to be, with lots of fresh green, happy looking leaves. However when I was inspecting it this morning, I noticed that even though the leaves that came out are fine, it's aborting all the little shoots after the new leaves. They all looked a little limp and as soon as i touched them, they all fell off!
I mist it to keep the spider mite and mildew away and that has worked in that sense.
Could this be a temperature issue with my plants? or a feeding issue? a watering issue? or is it possible the humidity is too high? inappropriate medium?
thanks
My Easter Cacti have always lost a leaf segment or two every now and then since I've had them, but over the last month or so they've been aborting large sections of stems. I just come home to find 3 or 4 leaf segments on the floor. They are both in flower and flowering heavily. I'm keeping them watered and fed with seaweed. The humidity around them is never really under 80% and they're in medium light, not direct light.
They're in very tiny little pots that i bought them in about a year ago and they're growing tiny, thin white roots out of the medium upwards towards the air. I didn't take much notice of this as I understood these were epiphytes and would do this anyway.
I have thought that they're quiet pot bound but didn't want to repot them when they were in flower.
The temperature is never too low I don't think because it's a warm all the time. Never too warm....you know...like a happy room temperature and the radiator is never on. I water with rain water.
Now it's obvioulsy my growing conditions that this is happening because my little citrus tree, a calamondin, when I bought it was just a twig with about 5 or 6 leaves on it. I repotted it into an open mixture of peat, perlite and coconut fibre. It sits directly under a skylight so gets full sun and is fed a tiny bit every week. Week after repotting it opened up about 7 new growth points on the main stems and it's now twice as mushy as it used to be, with lots of fresh green, happy looking leaves. However when I was inspecting it this morning, I noticed that even though the leaves that came out are fine, it's aborting all the little shoots after the new leaves. They all looked a little limp and as soon as i touched them, they all fell off!
I mist it to keep the spider mite and mildew away and that has worked in that sense.
Could this be a temperature issue with my plants? or a feeding issue? a watering issue? or is it possible the humidity is too high? inappropriate medium?
thanks