I would repot in a plastic inner pot with drainage holes and put that in a suitable outer decorative pot. The current pot makes it difficult to maintain suitable moisture levels in the soil/compost, hence the yellowing leaves. Your plant does not look like an air plant that absorbs water through its leaves. Do you know what it is?
No I can't remember. Problem is there isn't an inner pot that fits because it's already taking up a lot of space inside. I don't want to change the plant for the pot if I can help it because I don't have room for another plant to go somewhere else plus I wanted to paint a face on this exact pot.
Wow thanks! I hope it is this instead of mould. But I'm hoping some in home product can permanently remove it. If it comes from in the concrete, rather than in soil, then I'm hoping it will eventually come out of the concrete fully!
It started at the very bottom and I'd making its way up. None at the top. I'm not sure it is crystals as the direction indicates it's following the highest moisture held area
Thanks to Dovefromabove! It was crystals! I googled it and it said "mould and salts migrating out of concrete are attracted by moisture. If you spray water the salts will dissolve, mould will not"
Plantmoulded: It's not an air plant, but it has thick succulent like leaves so does absorb moisture in the air. Maybe I didn't explain good enough.
I repotted in an inner clear plastic pot cup, added holes of course, and a plastic pot inside that to catch moisture so it doesn't get to the concrete.
I took more than 50% off the plant because a lot of yellow leaves dropped and it was a good opportunity to cut below yellow leaves so they grow back without them. The plant was heavily flowering, as I had previously chopped it back a month or two ago. Unfortunately it has less soil in the pot though now. Now I have a ton of cuttings to propagate!
That does look a lot better @tina_harrison12. I have a similar outer pot like that but none of the problems caused by water seepage because the plant is in an inner pot. Your plant should pick up now. To avoid yellowing leaves, only water if the top two cm of compost are dry, let the water drain out of the bottom of the inner pot into a sink and only water again when the top two cm are dry again.
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Plantmoulded: It's not an air plant, but it has thick succulent like leaves so does absorb moisture in the air. Maybe I didn't explain good enough.
I repotted in an inner clear plastic pot cup, added holes of course, and a plastic pot inside that to catch moisture so it doesn't get to the concrete.
I took more than 50% off the plant because a lot of yellow leaves dropped and it was a good opportunity to cut below yellow leaves so they grow back without them. The plant was heavily flowering, as I had previously chopped it back a month or two ago. Unfortunately it has less soil in the pot though now. Now I have a ton of cuttings to propagate!
Thank you everyone