My Dracaena is getting slightly brown tipped leaves? How do I help it?
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The could be a sign of overwatering it.  Dracaenas do not need a wet soil.  Overwatering actually will cause the same symptoms as underwatering.  This happens because roots rot off and reduce the plants ability to take in water.  Now you have a large top plant with few roots, so the leaves start to die.\n\nYou could also try waterering it with purified water.  Sometimes the salts and chlorine in tap water can accumulate and cause the plant to act as if its drought stricken.\n\nFerilizer should be used sparingly.  One other thing to check is the quality of the plant mix.  Often plants sold in large stores are potted in the cheapest possible soil.
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Dude / dudette.\n\nCheck your local search engine.\n\nWatch a plant in your garden, for gawdsakes.  Plants wilt without water, so it's a fair bet that water fills the cells - perhaps the cell walls?\n\nHere's a passage ripped off from a website:\n\nWater acts as a SOLVENT for minerals and stored food that must be moved through the plant. Water evaporation on the leaf surface helps cool the plant during very hot weather in the same way that perspiration keeps us cool. \n\nPlants even require water during winter. Water is absorbed through and stored in roots for winter. When soil is frozen, water movement is very restricted. On windy winter days, leaves of broadleaf evergreens, such as rhododendrons, may curl to reduce water loss. Curling reduces the amount of leaf surface exposed to drying winds, reducing evaporation. Continued water loss may cause tissue to die and turn brown. This kind of plant injury is called desiccation. It is critical that broadleaf evergreens have an adequate supply of soil moisture going into winter.
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IF you have streaks that are darker/lighter running up your ankle, that is a sure sign of bacterial infection. Bug/spider bites can give a serious infection. Sounds as if you may have brown recluse spiders in your home. Get to a doctor immediately...this is nothing to play around with. Make sure before you put your shoes on that you shake them out very well...bang them on the floor, etc.  Some spiders, including recluse and black widows, love shoes to build webs in.
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What kind of discoloration is it?  Could it be from the dye in your shoes? Do you have diabetes? If it is bluish, your shoes are way too tight and you're cutting off the circulation!!! Not good I don't care how cute the shoes are!!  Soak your feed in warm water, gently massage them with lotion and put on some socks.  If you still have the problem in a day or so, see a doctor.  Blessings.
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A common problem! Give the plant a good feed with a high nitrogen feed (this is seen as N on fertiliser packs i.e. N.P.K.)and keep well watered. It should start to sprout new shoots, possibly from lower down the stem if it's been pruned too hard. Leave these shoots for at least three years before you prune them again. A good gardening book should tell you the correct method, mine is: in winter i.e. late January early February, cut the shoots back to 2-3 buds. Then in summer i.e. august, cut the long growths back to around 5-6 buds. This is the best method. I've worked on wisterias that are over 200 years old, in fact the oldest one in the UK, so it's been well tried and tested!\nIf no shoots are obvious I would still feed and water and leave it until next year before making any judgments. Plants can go into shock and may lie dormant for a season, so give it a chance. If nothing happens by early next summer I would say it's dead, but you can scrape a small slice of bark off the trunk and if it's green underneath then it's alive, if it's brown it's dead.Good luck.
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try putting ice on it. then peel it off. may need to put some type of stain remover on the spot after gum is removed.
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Lots of Sun. Keep the plant in gravel, sand or loose soil. Depending on which desert the plant came from here's how to determine how much water to give it:\n1. FInd out which months it usually rains in that desert and feed the plant accordingly.\n-or-\n2. Every three weeks or so give the plant a fraction of the entire amount. (Not advised if the soil dries out quickly.
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Put up a sign on the plant message board: "I AM NOT SCREWING AROUND ON ____.  IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE ASK ME DIRECTLY."  That should do it.
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There isn't a "species", because Aloe vera is itself the species you are asking about. However, I have seen some varieties of it with hardly any spikes along the leaf edges. In part, I think this may happen when it is growing rapidly in length. I don't know specifically how to encourage this kind of leaves, but looking for an individual with this type of leaves might work for you? Also, look for a representative with FAT leaves, and they won't seem as spiky.
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If its wax buildup you need to soften the wax and flush it out.  Something similar to this should help:
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watercress !\nthis is a plant that looks like a lettuce and it is used for salads and soups.\nyou can easily find it at any food market.\nmake an infussion out of this plant,\nlet it cool and then put it the refrigerator.\nwhen it is cold, soak a gauze in it.\nput the gauze on the afected area.\ndo this everyday and the spot will disappear fast !\nplease, stay away from the beach and direct sunshine !
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Use a Q-tip and apply it directly to it.. it will dry the area...
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Two solutions that you will find in any home, tea and coffee. They should do the job nicely.\nThe longer you leave it in the fluid, the darker it will become, so check it often.
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right now my grass is brown
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I've included a couple links with info; you can try continual chopping it back, but be very careful as the plant's sap may be more dangerous to you than a pesticide.
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Hmmmm. How do I put this nicely ????\n\nNothing grows in the shade if u know what I mean.
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Why questions are often difficult to answer but you seem to have a very \nreasonable answer to explain your observation. To really confirm that the \nnongreen parts of your variegated leaves do not photosynthesize as much as the \ngreen parts, you would need to do one of the following:  \n\n1. Starch test the leaves to show that there is little or no starch in nongreen \nareas and lots of starch in green areas. This may not work on all leaves \nbecause some plants do not accumulate starch in their leaves but export \nphotosynthates as sucrose.\n\n2. Extract chlorophyll from green and nongreen areas to show the nongreen areas \nhave little or no chlorophyll while green areas have lots of chlorophyll. Just \nbecause a leaf is nongreen does not mean that there is not chlorophyll there. \nIn some nongreen leaves, other pigments such as carotenoids and anthocyanins, \nsimply mask the green chlorophyll.\n\n3. Measure photosynthesis in leaf disks cut from green and nongreen areas of \nthe leaf to show that photosynthesis occurs in green but not nongreen parts.