12.00 plant at grocery store

twelve dollars

you could have gotten it a garden ridge for 2.99

shut up!

No way.........

Looks like a Ginger plant....

actually, I can tell you right now it's a sequoia seedling.

hope you plan on moving to a bigger place.

pick off the dried-up and curled outer leaves and give it a drink (not too much til you know what you've got). Looks like a variation of something I've got here. If it's what I think it is it likes indirect light (northern window) and moderate watering...

p.s. I nearly killed mine.

It is right now in a south/western facing window that gets about 3 hours of mild, but direct sunlight.

i should move it?

How big do you think it will get?

Right now, it is about as tall as Jillian, or a little past my hips. Im 5 ' 6"

Looks like a houseplant known as Stromanthe sanguinea. I think the common name is "Never, Never Plant", but I don't know why it's called that.

I swiped this off of some website when I Googled the latin:

Stromanthe genus contains two species grown indoors. S. amabilis and S. sanguinea.
# Description - S. amabilis has compact leaves which are 15-25cm long and 5cm wide. S. sanguinea has larger glossy leaves which are up to 30 to 50cm long and around 10cm wide. Both have a creeping rhizome (a thicken stem which grows hoizontally below or on the soil surface) and produce fanlike sprays of leaves.
# Origin - Brazil, Honduras and Costa Rica
# Family - Marantacae family
# Care Tips - Protect from strong temperature fluctuations and draughts with a temperature not below 15°C. Water moderately, mist often as needs humidity. Feed half strength every 14 days in growing seasons. Enjoys a medium light.

I looked at those pictures and it looks like they are referring to a smaller potted plant.

This one looks like a small tree..

how 'bout?


Cordyline terminalis

http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plants/Agavaceae/Cordyline_terminalis.html

another pic of a Ti plant..

Re: 12.00 plant at grocery store

Doomed?

I dunno, I am a dumbbell on houseplants. Something to do with where I lived, just had to walk two feet outdoors.. and indoors, all my pals with apartments were always chasing aphids, etc. So, when I got into landarch, I skipped all that. You have to skip something and pay attention to other choices, there's too much to learn, and people differ with interests.

Now, sometime later, spoiled climate brat gets the interest.

But... I have to steel myself not to buy from grocery stores, or even home depositors, although that might be slightly better. A small plant from a serious nursery has a better chance, and you with it, than a bright green thing from what I think of as rote trash bin suppliers. Not that I don't wish you well with the mystery plant.

That picture looks just like my plant.


I generally dont buy plants from grocery stores, home depot, garden centers.. bleeech.

I grow from seed anything i want to have in my garden. Especially things we will eat.

This plant was just... I dont know.. interesting enough for me to fork out the 12.99

Hopefully I can enjoy it for a few weeks before it falls over dead from lack of pro-growth chemicals Im sure it was receiving to make up for this horrible soil it is sitting in .

Though, I have a large beautiful pot that is right now holding fake flowers we use to disguise the look of the litter box.. I may re-pot it.. But that could surely mean its death..

Enjoy!

thank you!

It is almost completely dead and I do not know what to do for it.

Im debating moving it outside, but from everything I read, direct light will fry it with in an inch of its life....

??

It's probably a root fungus. As you mentioned earlier, these plants are cranked up on plant drugs by the greenhouses and then sent out to stores. As soon as they don't get their fix they start to wane. Why not try a big ol' Angel Wing Begonia for a tough, colorful, litter box camouflage:

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But I LIKE this one..

dag nab it.

I like the idea of having a small tree.
And one that has purple leaves.

Jeezzee.. I hate grocery store plants. Hate them hate them hate them.

In order to save this one I would have to buy some freaking miracle grow ya think?

I aint doin it. No way no how.


Oh well. At least I can have my pot back.

Never fertilize a sick plant, it only stresses them out more. Like people, if you are very sick and want to rest you don't crave a mug of expresso and a shot of B12.