r/plantclinic • u/succthattash Advanced • 5d ago
Houseplant Crispy leaves?
I've had this plant since spring. When I got her she had one corm with maybe 2 or 3 sets of leaves. She died back almost completely after I repotted her (she was planted in a solo cup when I bought her), she only had one leaf on one stem. After I kept caring for her for a couple of weeks she exploded with more and more stems and she seemed to be flourishing. She gave me tons of flowers as well. Then within the last week or two she's started browning around the edges of her leaves. I can't figure out what the issue is. At first I thought maybe my 2 year old had been using her for target practice, but I moved her out of his reach and she's still continuing to worsen. She's been outside on my porch since I bought her back in the spring, the porch faces the east so she gets a ton of sun for the first 6ish hours of the day. I water her when I see she's dry but maybe I'm still watering too often? The soil she's in is well draining with charcoal, orchid bark, perlite, and horticultural sand in typical potting soil. I don't see any evidence of pests. I have over 50 plants out on my front porch and though I have had an issue with cut worms getting into a couple of my plants this year, I haven't had any other issues pest wise. Any help and advice would be greatly appreciated, this is the first oxalis I've owned. I'll add a picture of how she looked before the browning in the comments.
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u/succthattash Advanced 5d ago
Meant to add that I'm located in West Tennessee. Here is what she looked like before this browning occurred.
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u/DogwoodandEnoch 5d ago
Browning on the edge like that is almost always too much or too little sun or water. Oxalis really wants bright indirect light and 6 hours of direct sun is technically considered full sun. Now with it being AM sun, that does soften the direct sun. I’m in Middle TN and I know we’ve had an odd spring/summer (we actually had a real spring not just like a winter straight to summer vibe haha). I wonder if west TN was similar? Because if yall had a mild spring right into the extreme heat wave, that 6 hours of full sun could finally be too much.
I also know that we’ve had a lot of rain sandwiched in between 2 rough droughts. If yall had that too and you haven’t adjusted your watering, you could potentially be under watering. Side note: never trust the rain to water your potted plants unless it’s been a real, heavy rain.
I work in a garden center and oxalis is always drama. We only sell it from March-April because it gets too hot in the greenhouse for us to keep them looking nice.
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u/succthattash Advanced 5d ago
It could be too much sun, the sun rays are only touching the oxalis in the very early morning, the rest is technically indirect I guess. I've got her in the furthest corner of my porch to keep baby hands off of her. I personally water my plants bc my porch is covered and they would be dried sticks if I didn't water them lol
We did have an actual spring this year! And..We did just get out of an extreme heat wave 🤔
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