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umbrella plant
ALLOTMENTMAD
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A few years ago I took a cutting from an umbrella plant. It has grown really well, however I have noticed that when it starts to grow new leaves now they quickly shrivel up and die. the plant is otherwise healthy, any ideas? Could it be that the pot is too small?
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it is on a sunny window sill, as it always has been, and fed weekly with baby bio plant food.
I'm not sure what else to say, nothing has changed in how it is cared for.
Can you give us a photo or two please? We can't tell if the pot is the wrong size unless we know how big the plant is.
Has it ever been repotted with fresh compost?
It might have had too much fertilizer - I wouldn't feed it every week - do you mean you've fed it every week through the whole year?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Anyone know if these umbrella plants can be pruned? Ours is very tall, desperately needs repotting, but I don't want to kill it, just get it to a more manageable size! Thx.
hi alotmentmad dose it have 5 leaves like the shape of a brolly is yes many years ago I had one and took a cutting ( the main plant I used to feed every 3 weeks and water every 2 days with the heating I jest not mine grew in a old 24 inch pot I had a water tray under pot and it grew up to the ceiling and over a arch ) the other plant grew to 8ft tall iused to cut of old stems and old leaves lasted years I gave them to my daughters when o left Stockton on tees they died 6weeks later ((( some people say you can.not take cuttings but you can I used to put cutting in rooting jell and took ok in good compost Michael