I'm guessing that what's happening here is that these plants indoors are getting far too much warm dry air moving around and through them and drying out the foliage so you think it needs watering and you do.
So they become to dry up top and too wet down under.
So I'm guessing that these plants don't like moving dry air rather than a source of direct heat as such.
So me's thinking that a room with a source of heat anywhere in the room even heat build up from a window will cause air to move. Heaters and radiators move air around a room, warm air rises to the ceiling along the ceiling then down the opposite wall back to ground level and of course back round again. Sun shinning through a window generates heat and that warm air moves. An open doorway where you have two rooms of a different temperature will cause a movement of dry air, warm air in one room will move naturally into a colder room through a doorway so placing these plants near an open doorway may not be a good idea either.
Air will move the least in the corner of a room or under the staircase. Spiders and flies accumulate in the top corners of a room where the movement of air is at its lowest for this very reason, they don't dehydrate.
And for the same reasons this is why we don't install carbon monoxide and smoke alarms on a wall near the ceiling and in corners, smoke and carbon monoxide is less able to find its way into these areas of a room, you will die before the sensors are activated.
I'd be tempted to find a corner of a room that has no heating or as little as possible, not in a hallway, doorway or inline with a source of heat such as a radiator or a large south facing window. Somewhere where there is no movement of dry warm air.
I need to make an urgent appointment with a shrink me thinks!!!!!!!!!
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Rainfall is ok, as long as the pots are draining well.
Keeping the roots healthy is the most important thing - if the roots are ok the top will regrow even if it gets frosted.
I don't know why the leaves are dry and crisp - if in the summer it may be under-watering, and if in the winter it may be over-watering.
Fingers crossed that cutting down on the water in the winter will solve the problem.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I'm guessing that what's happening here is that these plants indoors are getting far too much warm dry air moving around and through them and drying out the foliage so you think it needs watering and you do.
So they become to dry up top and too wet down under.
So I'm guessing that these plants don't like moving dry air rather than a source of direct heat as such.
So me's thinking that a room with a source of heat anywhere in the room even heat build up from a window will cause air to move. Heaters and radiators move air around a room, warm air rises to the ceiling along the ceiling then down the opposite wall back to ground level and of course back round again. Sun shinning through a window generates heat and that warm air moves. An open doorway where you have two rooms of a different temperature will cause a movement of dry air, warm air in one room will move naturally into a colder room through a doorway so placing these plants near an open doorway may not be a good idea either.
Air will move the least in the corner of a room or under the staircase. Spiders and flies accumulate in the top corners of a room where the movement of air is at its lowest for this very reason, they don't dehydrate.
And for the same reasons this is why we don't install carbon monoxide and smoke alarms on a wall near the ceiling and in corners, smoke and carbon monoxide is less able to find its way into these areas of a room, you will die before the sensors are activated.
I'd be tempted to find a corner of a room that has no heating or as little as possible, not in a hallway, doorway or inline with a source of heat such as a radiator or a large south facing window. Somewhere where there is no movement of dry warm air.
I need to make an urgent appointment with a shrink me thinks!!!!!!!!!