Can you name this plant? and what is wrong with it??!

12 years ago

I bought the plant thinking i could bring it back to life, outside, it is always drying out. And inside (and outside!) after it gets a certain amount of leafs the leafs begin to look pale and they have parts where each leaf looks like it got thinned out, so the sun comes through those parts a lot more. then they begin getting little holes! then fall off! I will post another picture of a leaf.
the soil I'm using is sta-green, which is flower and vegetable garden soil and it comes with fertilizer, 70% that and the rest is regular soil from my backyard which looks like a kind of soil that doesn't want water lol it acts as if it was duck feathers sometimes, and it takes it a lil while to absorb water. it is summer here and hot days but even when i got the plant back in winter it hated being outside, inside it survives a little longer but at some point the leafs begin that silly process of thinning out then falling off.
I have kept the plant under sun or part share of full shade and it just hates being outside. is this a total indoor plant?
It likes to be watered like once a week, it seems.
should i fertilize it ?!
thanks everyone!

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belenlives
Original Author
12 years ago
here
belenlives
Original Author
12 years ago
you can see through the leafs when it starts getting "infected" it does this every time. i have checked for bug, there is none
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Pyewacket
11 years ago
I suggest reposting this on the Container forum, but from what you've said, I see that you have used garden soil in your mix.

Don't ever do that in a container. Just use a soil-less mix. There are lots to choose from, or just buy a soil-less mix like Miracle Gro.

Then you go on to say

looks like a kind of soil that doesn't want water lol it acts as if it was duck feathers sometimes

That sounds like a horrible thing to have in your potting medium. You shouldn't try to use garden soil in a container to start with - because it packs down, compresses, and cuts off aeration to the roots of anything planted in it. But given that its bad soil on top of that, that makes it a double no-no!

Even good garden soil is no good in a container. None of the multiple invisible systems that make good garden soil good will work in a pot. The microflora and fauna that make up healthy soil cannot survive in balance in a pot, and there are no earthworms working to keep your soil fluffy and light once you plop it into a pot.

So - no garden soil in your pots!

I can't see that plant well enough to id (plus its sideways and I don't feel like downloading the picture to put it through Windows Viewer and rotate it) but repost on the container forum and maybe someone there can help more with id-ing the plant, and helping you get your potting mix straightened out.
flowergirl70ks
11 years ago
Looks like an arrowood plant, and where I live, its a houseplant. Repot it in good potting soil, not soil from your yard.
daisy_ny6
11 years ago
Not all bugs are visible to the naked eye. It could be some kind of sucking mite that are causing the defoliation.
samsaraedu
11 years ago
That looks exactly like my fig tree. A friend gave me some that were supposed to fruit but for the past 3 years all I have gotten is funky growth patterns of branches then the last 2 yrs leaves form, droop then get eaten like lace no matter what I treat or spray with but not even a node or fruit bud.
Yours looks the same as mine. The only tree in my yard I cant get to fruit.