Yellowing leaves on my Stephanotis

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• Dave Morgan Posts: 3,123

  December 2013

  Sillybug,

  This is from the RHS website, only you can tell if your problem fits any of the causes of what you describe.

  Stephanotis suffers from some common houseplant problems.

  • Pests: susceptible to scale insect, red spider mite, mealybug and root mealybug
  • Lack of flowering: may be caused by low humidity or insufficient summer warmth, but may also be due to unsuitable winter treatment. Keep plants cool in winter – between 13-16°C (55-61°F) – and water sparingly. Poor general growing conditions and lack of feeding may also be factors
  • Flower bud drop: extreme changes in growing conditions, either over or under watering, extreme high or low temperatures or lack of humidity may cause the flower buds to drop
  • Yellowing and dropping of leaves: this may follow waterlogging or very low temperatures. Lack of feeding will cause a general yellowing of the leaves without dropping. Plants should show green rapidly after foliar feeding

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• dannyboy10 Posts: 127

  December 2013

  could be water logging,low temperatures or the lack of feeding.

  It needs good drainage.

  try john inners no2.

  This is only what I found on internet.

   

   

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• Sillybug Posts: 20

  December 2013

  Thank you I will repot it and see what happens.

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• bigolob Posts: 127

  December 2013

  Good idea! Do not water the compost after re-potting. I used to grow tropical plants including Stephanotis and they must be kept on the dry side of waterlogged! Also minimum temperature of 60 degrees F.

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• Lilypink Posts: 1

  December 2014

  My stephanotis is suffering the same way.  It's well fed so I think a drop in temperature plus maybe a tad of over watering are to blame.  Very useful answer..thanks!

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• Sillybug Posts: 20

  December 2014

  Thank you very much for all your replies I really appreciated them. She was repotted a few weeks ago and she's looking better so fingers crossed I'll be getting some flowers some time in the spring.!!

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• Pearl Lite2 Posts: 1

  May 2015

  Please can you help, I bought a beautiful Stephanotis a few weeks ago and almost all the flowers have dropped off. Will it produce flowers again and is there anything I can do to help it. The leaves are very healthy. I would so appreciate your advice.

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• The Dog House Posts: 1

  January 2016

  Hi, I have a Stephanotis, 18 months old, and all of her lower leaves have yellowed and fallen. Good top growth on a very bare stem (just stem, no leaves at all). She is not pot bound but I think I should repot her? There are signs of new growth. When should I start feeding her, please? And what with? I think Tomato feed would be best, but I don't want to poison her as well! Please can someone tell me how to feed, repot, and generally care for my slightly neurotic plant? I know they are trouble indoors, but she was covered with leaves and blossom when I bought her. Thank You! 

   

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• Unnos Posts: 3

  January 2016

  Maybe iron and cold weather.

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• debonob812nykNgNJt Posts: 1

  August 2020

  Hi I'm new to this site. I have a Stephanotis which although it wasn't blooming, the leaves were very healthy. It even had new leaves coming out. Every morning I mist it. Last weekend we were away for 2 nights and when we came back I found that the leaves were drooping and some of them were turning yellow. I must admit that I watered it quite well because I thought that it might be underwatered. My country is very hot during this time of year. However it deteriorated since then. Could someone please help me maybe it could survive?
  Thank you 
  

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