SOS!!!

我的好朋友小R度假兩個星期去了，把她心愛的植物留在我家，囑托我認真照看。

這棵不起眼的小樹苗，是她的"plant of love"，因為是她的未婚夫千裏迢迢從倫敦寄過來的求婚禮物，當作性命一樣，她說有一次他們吵架，這棵植物就掉葉子，然後他們複合以後，這棵植物也奇跡般地在冬天發芽。暈！我感覺是小R在吵架的時候不澆水，然後可能還把樹葉當作出氣筒，自己忘記了，嗬嗬。

這個月忙得暈頭轉向，連自己喝水的時間都不夠，今天難得休息，忽然發現這棵“愛的樹苗”有枯萎的跡象，這是非常恐怖的，我簡直不敢相信小R回來以後驚聞噩耗的樣子。

如果是病人，我還有辦法，但是植物，我就束手無策啦，請各位有經驗的同學們，獻計獻策，務必幫忙，能否告知這是什麽植物，需要多少水分，陽光，還有什麽可以做的，555555，大家一定要救我，SOS!!!

[落花飄零]

Thank you everybody for the suggestions. R is coming back tomorrow, i can finally change over the alive plant to her.:DDDD

[sweetie遐思]

哦,樓上說的營養棒就是施肥,最好是開春後使用.僅供參考.:)

[sweetie遐思]

千萬別多澆水,更不能施肥,因為冬天的植物也須冬眠.若葉黃,落葉

等一般不是缺水,反而是水滯留與根部,容易爛根.若家中暖氣太足,

一周一次尚可,若室內溫度偏低,二周一次即可.

[feiyangmom]

落花,
這麽多建議把你都攪暈了吧?:)我以前也養過這種植物.比較傾向寒枝的意見,一周多澆透一次就可以了,其實好多植物忌諱水多,經常會澇死而不是旱死.我原來還在盆裏插小棍棍(營養棒之類,叫Plant Food Spikes),HOMEDEPOT,LOWES,KMART等都有賣,能幫助長葉子,看你有沒有時間去買.

[縱然平行]

落花飄零: Here is my thought; It looks like the problem could be that the hungry elephant is secretly nibbling the leaves of plant while no one is around -:).

Seriously, I think, it might be better for you to do your own research on this help-needing plant (which doesn't seems to be an exotic one) from the net or at the nursery/green house near by and then form a rehab plan based upon your own diagnose and researching results. More, no matter what your final solution would be you should act fast before time runs out. You may also need developing plan “B” JIC things wouldn’t work out (-:.

Frankly, I am the one of those worst plant tenders in this planet. If plants died in my custody could ever speak out I would be surely charged with negligence if not manslaughter.

Your SOS signal flushed out my experiences on my failing house plants. Once, my Ex-gf complained to me with a ‘dirty’ look, “How come all of your plants are dieing at same time?” “That is because they haven’t been responding to my “treatment” plans. Plus, they never talk to me.” I replied. “That is the lamest excuse I ever heard.” She was getting offended by my not-so-funny remark and asserted “You can remember and recall those boring numbers on the financial statements years back from companies out there but you can’t remember watering your plants once a while? Her tone was so critical as if I was killing these poor plants on purpose. “Ok, you are right, guilty as charged.” I acknowledged my faults with reconciliatory manner. “How about form now on you’d take good care of these plants and I’d see what I can do for you”. I suggested to her. “That is fair enough.” She thought for few seconds and agreed. (Guys, I tell you, don’t ever argue with women for any thing that have life within because they can be so passionate and protective. Instead, collaborate with them for building a middle ground to save you from tons of headaches).

The rest of story was that the plants in my apartment were magically nourished backed from the “death bed” and soon thrived; some of them even flowered, which was truly rare. As for the one who tended those plants she was happy and “flourishing” as well. So my point is that if enough care, devotion and attention are poured into something or someone that has a problem solution(s) can be acquired.

My personal story shared above is aimed to entertain and de-stress you. So, please help your fiend’s plant and keep us updated for the status when it becomes available.

Hope there will be a happy ending.

[WEIK2008]

落花姐姐人氣真旺！嗬嗬，湊個熱鬧！

[寒枝]

另外，看不出你的花盆底下是不是漏水。我家的是那種水會漏到下層的。如果根部泡了水的話，一般植物都吃不消，除非是柳樹。

[寒枝]

我家有盆葉子一模一樣的。我一般就用清水澆。那清水不是直接從水龍頭接完就澆上去的，我一般先接到一個敞口的瓶子裏，放在太陽曬得到的地方，晾幾天才用。因為以前聽人說水中的chlorine對植物不好，還有就是這樣就保證了水溫跟室溫一樣。。另外澆花應該選在或清晨或夜晚。對於你的這種植物，我是每一周半澆透一次，感覺它非常皮實。我家的溫度在55到68之間。

[fieldhouse]

好像沒什麽大問題。圖上顯示有很多嫩枝新葉， 老的葉子枯幹一些也正常。我的一盆類似的植物在我休假時兩周不澆水都可以。
建議就用清水澆一下就行了，不要澆得太濕。如果是我，就每三四天澆50－100ml。不用曬太陽，就放在窗邊就行。估計你們那裏也不會有很多晴天。反正你的朋友就離開兩周。

以上建議僅根據個人經驗。我也有bad credit for plants. 前年我同事Amy 送的兩盆Ivy 竟然死掉了。她直到現在還說，unbelievable,what kind of guys cannot even keep Ivy alive?!
上麵提到的我類似的植物就是為了證明我是normal guy，而不是Anti-plants guy而買的.

[qjius]

Wish you can see the tree like this in a week. It has been posted in my photo profile (only one photo in there) since I can not input here. Good luck!

[qjius]

落花 FYI:

It seems a “7-leafs tree” in Chinese. It likes warm, sunny conditions with limited water. It does changes leafs slowly; however, the tree is losing little more leafs than usual. Cold, insufficient sun light, and too much water may be the causative factor. I guess that sun light and warm temperature may help. Good luck.

qjius

[Bali]

會不會是那種到了冬天即落葉到了春天又自己活過來的植物？如需營養液，超市或苗圃裏即可買到,但要先弄清這是什麽植物。有沒有時間去苗圃問問專家？

[流沙隨風]

你是醫生，不妨就當植物人醫治?

俺覺得這責任不在你，沒準是小倆口又吵架了, 嗬嗬

[落花飄零]

說了跟沒說一樣啊老鼠，具體一點，什麽營養液，怎麽澆法，火燒眉毛的事情啊。

[Dalaoshu]

哈，看這種樣子隻是一個觀賞植物，非常嬌氣，大多數都需要營養液的，不能用一般的水澆。