Houseplant Troubleshooting
My friend sent a photo last month. Her calathea had leaves curled tight like little cigars. She texted with the usual worried question: Is it dying? That exact question pops up constantly among new plant owners, yet on its own…
Your monstera turns on you one Tuesday. You walk past it and freeze because that leaf looked fine days ago. Now it carries a brown center ringed in yellow while fresh growth curls instead of opening flat. You scroll plant…
That mushy, earthy stench rising from the plant pot always signals trouble first. Root rot caught me completely off guard many years ago. I left one of my houseplants trapped in continuously saturated soil for far too long, and I…
Last winter a stray monstera stem sat in a glass jar on my kitchen counter. Within just a few weeks, delicate white roots tangled and filled the container far faster than I had expected. That single cutting sparked a small…
That monstera of mine went completely limp one random Tuesday. Yellow leaves started showing up everywhere and I kind of panicked at first. Thing is most of these issues scream pretty clearly once you know what to look for. From…
