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Plant Experience
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LIGHT
Although a Dracaena Lemon Lime Plant can adapt to low light, it does better in medium to indirect bright light. Too much direct bright light causes the color in the leaves of a Dracaena Lemon Lime to fade. Too little light and the new leaves of a Dracaena Lemon Lime Plant are narrower than the older leaves.
WATER
Allow the top 50% of the soil of a Dracaena Lemon Lime plant to dry out before watering. If the soil is too wet or too dry the leaves of a Dracaena Lemon Lime plant develop brown tips. Always use non-fluoridated water for any type of Dracaena Plant. Dracaenas are very sensitive to chemicals in the water.
FERTILIZER
Dracaena Plants require very little fertilizer. Feed a Dracaena Plant with a good indoor plant food monthly in spring and summer at 1/2 the recommended strength. It’s not necessary to feed Dracaenas in the fall or winter.
TEMPERATURE
Provide warm temperatures between 70-75 degrees for a Dracaena Lemon Lime Plant.
HUMIDITY
Dracaenas like high humidity but do well in basic household humidity.
FLOWERING
Although Dracaena Lemon Lime Plants do bloom, they rarely flower as potted plants. The white flowers usually appear in summer if the plant gets very bright light. Direct sun causes the bright color in the leaves of a Dracaena Lemon Lime Plant to fade.
PESTS
Mealy Bugs and spider mites are the houseplant pests to look out for. Keeping the leaves of a Dracaena Plant clean and dust free helps prevent Houseplant pest problems.
DISEASES
Fluoride toxicity causes long, tan to dark brown areas to form in the yellow stripes of Dracaena Lemon Lime leaves. Fusarium Leaf Spot Disease produces reddish/ tan spots with wide, yellow halos on the new leaves.
SOIL
Use a fast-draining well-aerated loose soil for a Dracaena Lemon Lime. Dracaenas can even be grown in soil mixed with lava rock.
POT SIZE
A Dracaena Lemon Lime likes to be root-bound in small pots. Re-pot to the next size pot when the roots of a Dracaena Plant have filled the existing pot.
PRUNING
Cut brown leaf tips off a Dracaena Lemon Lime Plant with a wet scissors. Tall stalks on a Dracaena Plant, with only a few leaves at the top, can be cut anywhere along the stalk. New growth appears below the cut area.
PROPAGATION
A Dracaena Lemon Lime is propagated by stem cuttings.
Although a Dracaena Lemon Lime Plant can adapt to low light, it does better in medium to indirect bright light. Too much direct bright light causes the color in the leaves of a Dracaena Lemon Lime to fade. Too little light and the new leaves of a Dracaena Lemon Lime Plant are narrower than the older leaves.
WATER
Allow the top 50% of the soil of a Dracaena Lemon Lime plant to dry out before watering. If the soil is too wet or too dry the leaves of a Dracaena Lemon Lime plant develop brown tips. Always use non-fluoridated water for any type of Dracaena Plant. Dracaenas are very sensitive to chemicals in the water.
FERTILIZER
Dracaena Plants require very little fertilizer. Feed a Dracaena Plant with a good indoor plant food monthly in spring and summer at 1/2 the recommended strength. It’s not necessary to feed Dracaenas in the fall or winter.
TEMPERATURE
Provide warm temperatures between 70-75 degrees for a Dracaena Lemon Lime Plant.
HUMIDITY
Dracaenas like high humidity but do well in basic household humidity.
FLOWERING
Although Dracaena Lemon Lime Plants do bloom, they rarely flower as potted plants. The white flowers usually appear in summer if the plant gets very bright light. Direct sun causes the bright color in the leaves of a Dracaena Lemon Lime Plant to fade.
PESTS
Mealy Bugs and spider mites are the houseplant pests to look out for. Keeping the leaves of a Dracaena Plant clean and dust free helps prevent Houseplant pest problems.
DISEASES
Fluoride toxicity causes long, tan to dark brown areas to form in the yellow stripes of Dracaena Lemon Lime leaves. Fusarium Leaf Spot Disease produces reddish/ tan spots with wide, yellow halos on the new leaves.
SOIL
Use a fast-draining well-aerated loose soil for a Dracaena Lemon Lime. Dracaenas can even be grown in soil mixed with lava rock.
POT SIZE
A Dracaena Lemon Lime likes to be root-bound in small pots. Re-pot to the next size pot when the roots of a Dracaena Plant have filled the existing pot.
PRUNING
Cut brown leaf tips off a Dracaena Lemon Lime Plant with a wet scissors. Tall stalks on a Dracaena Plant, with only a few leaves at the top, can be cut anywhere along the stalk. New growth appears below the cut area.
PROPAGATION
A Dracaena Lemon Lime is propagated by stem cuttings.
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brielle
2017-10-22
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