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Variegated Ginger
kimberleyld
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Hello! I bought a Variegated Ginger two weeks ago (with leaves green/white on top and pink/red on the bottom). It looked great when I bought the plant and the day after all the leaves were kind of hanging down when the day before they were all rising up to the ceiling. We watered the plant and it appeared that some leaves were coming back up after a few days. Two days ago we turned on the heater (around 20C now) and it looks like the leaves are hanging down once again. The soil is moist and we did not replant it after purchase. Please help, I want to save my baby!!
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Hello!I bought a Variegated Ginger two weeks ago (with leaves green/white on top and pink/red on the bottom). It looked great when I bought the plant and the day after all the leaves were kind of hanging down when the day before they were all rising up to the ceiling. We watered the plant and it appeared that some leaves were coming back up after a few days. Two days ago we turned on the heater (around 20C now) and it looks like the leaves are hanging down once again. The soil is moist and we did not replant it after purchase. Please help, I want to save my baby!!
Last edited: 01 December 2017 19:24:27
Allow the compost to dry out between waterings and keep the plan out of bright light. The plant will roll or fold its leaves in bright sunlight.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I should have mentioned that the plant is far from the window and there is no direct sunlight coming in the flat anyway. So this might not be the issue haha
Your 'variegated-ginger' (Alpinia) is more suited to a semi-shaded tropical greenhouse!
High humidity and a minimum temperature of around 25 C is optimum , keeping permanently damp ; not the easiest of conditions to emulate in a flat !
You'll probably find that's the 'issue' here
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