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bigbus | 09:07 Mon 05th Nov 2007 | Gardening
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can someone help i have this plant in my living room its kind of like a yukka, but its shedding its leaves i want to know if its dying or meant to do this? [IMG]http://i24.tinypic.com/118zxiq.jpg[/IMG]
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this is a close up picture off the stems
[IMG]http://i21.tinypic.com/2w6wgvr.jpg[/IMG]
It certainly looks like a yucca and if so it definitely should not shed its leaves. They dont look particularly yellow from the picture you have posted so it doesn't look as if it has been over-watered. Have you moved it recently? If so it just might not like its new location. If it was flourishing before, move it back to where it was. Bear in mind It wont like being in a draught either! If it continues to lose its leaves, there is nothing you can do - get rid and get a new one taking care where you place it. Good luck from Ladywoman!
Oh! Poor pathetic plant! Looks like a Yukka, thats been starved of light and maybe overwatered. It likes a light position and allow the compost to semi dry out defore watering. Move to a suitable position and see how it responds over a few months ....... if you can stand looking at it for that long!
As well as the above the pot looks a bit too large for the plant to me, have you recently repotted it? This could mean it's been too wet for too long.
There's also a chance that some bug has got into the compost & the larvae have been chomping the roots.
Maybe you could carefully tap it out of it's pot...if the soil falls away put it into fresh compost in a slightly smaller pot & hope for the best!
It is a Dracaena not a Yucca and it looks to me like it has been over watered and this has caused the stems to rot.
My guess is the pot you have it in does not have any drainage holes in the bottom?

It's chances are slim but it may survive with some tlc.
Never has so much been written for such a pathetic specimen! Looking a little closer at the pickie, you could well be right h/wlk. Either way, it requires similar care to the Yukka.
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ty everyone even landscaper lol its only pathetic cause ive made it that way :( but ty anyway i did re-pot it and u was right it doesnt have drainage holes oops! thats the amateur in me, im gonna put it in a smaller pot with d/holes in my back kitchen window which is not over looked by neighbours thank god lol, and see how it goes in the mean time ill purchase a new one!
haha, you sound like my sister bigbus...she buys houseplants for 10p from 'casualty corner' & sees it as a challenge to nurse them back to health! :o)
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lol Robinia wish your sister was here she could have a go at my plant although i think its cards are marked!
In your first pic. it looks as though it is situated near a window which has got frost on it ,Dracenas won't like that.As everyone else says looks like over-watering as well - killing it with kindness (as I often do ! )they like to be warm. Good luck with it .
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the 1st pic the fllower is in front of a newly plastered wall as we are having some work done maybe it didnt like the plasterer i know we never lol

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