Questions tagged [houseplants]

Plants grown indoors. Use this tag with questions about houseplants in general. Please narrow down the scope of the question by using the appropriate genus or common name tags when asking about specific plants.

Houseplants are plants which are growing indoors in pots. They can help to make a room more pleasant, as well as freshen the air by producing oxygen and even to some extent help "clean" the air. Although these effects have been confirmed only in laboratory environment: "Which houseplants should you buy to purify air? None of them"[1]. As well as growing them for decoration, "house plants" could include , (e.g. dwarf citrus), and which are also grown for consumption.

Indoor environments are often very different to outdoor environments in most parts of the world, so the range of practical houseplants are often very different to typical regional outdoor plants.

[1]: www.nationalgeographic.com

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Can I use a moss support for my Hoya Plant?

My Hoya has been hanging for most of its life. Recently, we moved and there are no hanging spots with enough light. Currently, it is sprawled out on my counter, but I would prefer more structure. Can I use a moss support to structure my Hoya??
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What is eating my bay plant?

I have a young bay tree in a pot, which I received from my parents. It lives outside on a South-East Facing balcony. For a long time after my parents gave it to me (maybe 8 months ago?) it didn't seem to be growing at all, and various of the…
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Giving light to a plant 24/7 is good?

Can we grow plants fast and harvest more if we give light 24/7 using LEDs ?
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My spider plant is dying

A blade of has turned yellow, and it looks as though another one has begun to transition. I'd like to stop this before the entire plant dies, but I don't understand what's happening. Is my plant sick? Or is there some sort of mineral imbalance?…
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Is this a Dracaena reflexa?

I struggle to identify this plant. I have searched for similar leaves but could not find a definitive answer yet. Some details about the plant: age: about seven years height: 80 inches / 2 m (as seen on the photo) it won't stop growing :)
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Is it normal for a newly grown fig foliage to hang down like this?

This particular foilage just grew out pretty fast. But it's hanging down. It's soft; as they all are when they first start growing, but I don't remember if I've ever seen them hanging down. The stalk at the bottom is very strong and where the…
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Lucky bamboo top of stalk is yellow

I just got this plant yesterday and I'm wondering if I should cut off that yellow part of the stalk to help it grow. Please let me know and thank you so much!!
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Depressed Castor Oil plant

This is my very depressed plant! Is there anything I can do to revive it to its former glory? I have put it outside for the last week with no luck. It became very depressed after leaving it in a dark room for two days even though I was told it…
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Why are the leaves on my mint plant drying up and brown bumps are forming on the stems?

My mint plant leaves are turning brown and drying up and the stems are getting brown scaly bumps all over them. A friend gave me a mint plant about 4 months ago. She was growing it outside. We live where it snows in winter, so I want it to grow it…
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Why are the leaves and stems of my yucca drooping, and the plant looking sad?

For the past two weeks my yucca has been looking sad. It's drooping and hanging over. I have given it a reasonable amount of water and it's pretty sunny out there. What should I do?
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What is causing this yellow fungus in my plants' soil, and should I be concerned?

In this post I mentioned that the soil in my schefflera plant's pot had been host to some yellowish fungus, but I somehow managed to misidentify some discolored perlite as the fungus in question. However, I rediscovered the fungus yesterday; here a…
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Pot size recommendation for this Jade plant

Should I get a small, medium, or large for this Jade plant? The plant looks big, but I am not sure what size of pot to get for this plant.
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New to houseplants - what's wrong with my chilli plant?

I'm currently growing a few chilli plants from seed in my apartment, but the largest one is having some problems. Some of the leaves are curling, whilst others have a dusty, salty substance on the bottom and light green patches on the top. Parts of…
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Planting on pit started avocado

I have a couple of avocado seedlings that I started roughly at the same time, one suspended over water and one planted in soil. The water method seems to have worked slightly quicker, but it will soon get to the point where it needs planting on. I'm…
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Is this plant a Lemon Lime Plant?

Is it Lemon Lime plant? and it is a kind of Dracaena?
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