4 ms·
This comes to me in right time. I recently witnessed a small miracle. There is a dragontree of quite concider able age. Its long mostly leafless branches showin
by ilvez 5y ago
This comes to me in right time. I recently witnessed a small miracle. There is a dragontree of quite concider able age. Its long mostly leafless branches showing that it has had chaotic life. I got it from friend who rented next door and placed it into small corridor. And then at one point I forgot about it and in the spring sometime it dropped off all leaves. I concidered it as dead. I was really frustrated -- I've killed a creature with my carelessness.
It was like this for months. And since it was quiet corner of a corridor, I forgot it again, let it sink to me and from time to time remind me to become better. I pushed away dealing with it, since my own carelessness was thrown at me and it bit as pain. Until a day, when I saw green leaves popping out of it's tips of branches again -- it's alive. I'm still not sure how it got to life again, since I didn't water it. Maybe the heat of the summer, and it was much heat, and little moisture from air. But it was my salvation.
I need to find the best place and right soil for this honorable plant and of course learn to water it. So this piece of information falls into right soil. Thank you for sharing :)
- contingencies 5y agoBy dragontree - do you mean Dracaena cinnabari by any chance? While there are other Dracaenas the island of Socotra where D. cinnabari was found is basically an exposed rock off the cost of Yemen ... think sun all day with little water. There's a great paragliding(?) video of the island on Youtube. Check out a native observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/68966536 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/68966536
- ilvez 5y agoI think it's Dracaena Marginata I have. Not 100% sure, since it totally lives outside it's normal environment in northern Europe, so it's thin and naked, so visual similarities may be deceptive. :)
- dTal 5y agoDragon trees - Dracaena marginata - are damn hard to kill. If they don't have water, they don't die - they just stop growing. I actually let a weed grow in the pot of mine because the weed responded much more dramatically to soil conditions. Like all plants, however, they do need sunlight. Is your corridor well lit?
- ilvez 5y agoNot too much. It got some afternoon/evening sunlight. Not too much directly. But I will move it to a better place once I get done with my renovation works. After you said it, I also started to wonder whether they are die-hards, because what's the chance of wonders, eh? :) Probably the just drop the leaves and stay in hibernation until environment gets better. I'm so glad I didn't get rid of it because of my ignorance.
- burgerzzz 5y agoMy dad was visiting recently and watered one of my old dead bonsais and said sometimes you water them and they come back. That plant didn't come back (yet?), but not a week ago I am planting some new flowers I got on sale and I see that a plant that I had written off as dead a year ago was actually had a green stalk still at least up to the soil line. I've seen plants survive and come back from a lot, but nothing like this. I'm going to keep watering it and hopefully it will grow a new stalk and come back to life!