At the beginning of the year I went to the store and bought a pair of dracaena plants, one shorter and one taller, in a pot. The larger plant seems perfectly healthy, but the smaller one is not doing well. When I first got it, I suspected something was wrong with it, but I had no evidence. Now I do, and my newbie attempts to make it happy have borne no success.
The small plant's trunk has three shoots coming out near the top, and all three have dropping leaves and browning. On two of them, the sheaf of leaves at the end of the shoot is drooping, which looks very bad.
I have been poking around on the internet, and I encountered an article that made me think it might be worthwhile to look into root rot:
http://en.allexperts.com/q/House-Plants-721/Dracaena-Pruning.htm This would be a lot of work, though, since I have hurt knees and no gardening tools, and I don't know if it's what's needed. I also thought it might make sense to just prune off the two dying shoots. What do people think is wrong? What would be best to try to fix it?
Thanks a lot!
Dhugan
Extra info:
- I have been watering approximately once every two weeks, but even so the soil dries out slowly. I gave the small plant extra water earlier this week, the day after the main watering, since infrequent watering hadn't helped it at all.
- I have misted the leaves occasionally, more often recently. Don't know if that helps.
- Plant type: Dracaena Marginata
- The shoots that appear to be dying appear to be younger than the third shoot on the smaller plant. The third shoot actually appears reasonably healthy now I look at it, almost as healthy as the larger plant.
