Palm is dying!

19 years ago

HELP! I have an Areca plant which i bought in Sept this year. it was doing fine till i let it dry out too much between 1 watering and started to wither - the leaves turned brown and looked dead - not droopy but very dried up. I watered it thoroughly, didn't leave any in the tray, switched my water to filtered water but my plant is not doing any better - its getting worse. I don't know if i should just give up. the leaves keep browning, even though i cut off old brown areas. now some of the leaves on the palm are curling - i checked for spider mites but didn't find any. i have also placed bowls of water around the plant for moisture and have it near an east facing window for morning light. is there anything else i can do? at this point, the plant looks really weak - no big fronds, just 2 sickly ones and 2 new young leaves that haven't yet opened up. Any help would be appreciated!

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orchiddude
19 years ago
Toss that sucker out in the trash, learn a good lesson and call Christian to buy another one. Move on.
topher2006
19 years ago
Sounds dead to me... orchiddude ... hard on folks
:) !! lol..
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orchiddude
19 years ago
LOL...I am sorry topher... I dont mean to sound mean. I just try to hit the facts without dancing around the issue.

There are some forums around here that do a good dance and whine with you a little, some cry and do a little more whinning, more dancing and so on...then after all that, they tell you to keep it and baby it and sleep with it sing to it and play with it, get the point...LOL, I hate that. Just hit me hard with an answer and let me move on. :-)

With tropicals, some plants can take 5 or 6 years to recover. I know, I had some orchids once that I tried to kill, then I wanted them, well I kept them for 5 more years and they still looked as bad as they did when I was killing them. So, long story short. If you kill it, half kill it, or think you killed it, toss it, get another if you want, and start over. We dont have enough time on this earth to be worrying about a half dead plant....LOL
topher2006
19 years ago
Orchiddude
I was just picking at ya !
orchiddude
19 years ago
LOL, I guess I had it coming...huh?
oppalm
19 years ago
amritab - don't be so quick to throw it out. Maybe it's adjusting to the lower light levels and drier air of winter. You should spend more time with your plant, i.e. take it to work/school with you, take it on errands with you, sleep with it, sing to it, and just be its' buddy. Maybe it just needs a good friend.........

Then again I could be wrong. It might be easier and less time consuming to throw it out and get another one.
orchiddude
19 years ago
LOL oppalm...that was good. You had me fooled for a minute.
topher2006
19 years ago
Ha ha !
You guys aint right !!
rotflmao..