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Can my peace lily be saved

4 years ago

My peace Lily hasn’t been doing too well since I put her in my outside shed and completely forgot to bring her in. Her leaves are quite mushy and dark and some parts are black, so I’m unsure of it’s cold damage or a watering issue. I’ll be devastated if she can’t be saved as I’ve had her since tiny. Here’s a photo of her in June/July


Temperatures haven’t gotten much lower than 8 degrees c by me and she was in an insulated outdoor building since around September 20th. I’ve watered her and the soil is wet but I’m unsure if this will do more harm than good. Could anyone help?




Comments (3)

  • 4 years ago

    I think it’s a goner, but you can wait and see. If I’m not mistaken, it’s plenty wet so don’t water it for now. Keep in a bright location inside inside, no direct sun as you probably know.

    HU-46370764 thanked socks
  • 4 years ago

    agree ....


    those leaves are lost .. so no amount of excess water is going to bring them back ... but if you rot the roots off.. then there is no hope for the future ....


    so just water properly .. letting it near dry before the next watering.. and lets see if there are some dormant buds that will trigger.. and start new growth ..


    its severely stressed.. fert is not a response to such...


    ken

    HU-46370764 thanked ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
  • 4 years ago

    PLs usually produce from offsets that grow from the roots of the mother plant. They can be grown from seed, but it's fairly uncommon to do so, so the former method has garnered much more favor. At this point, it's important to avoid saturated soil anywhere in the pot. Do the following outdoors or while holding the pot over a sink: Move the pot downward, then reverse the direction sharply upward. Excess water in the pot will tend to continue moving downward when the direction is reversed, and out of the drain hole. The sharper the change in movement from down to up, the more water will exit the pot. Before or after this exercise, you can trim all the leaves off about an inch above the point where the individual leaf stems can be clearly seen.

    It would be a good idea to make/use a 'tell' to keep you apprised of moisture levels deep in the pot. If your pot is deeper than about 5", the advice to "water when the top inch or two of soil feels dry to the touch, is a recipe for over-watering; and this would be most true when the plant in question has no foliage.

    Keep the pot in a warm bright spot. It's quite common for the tops of some plants to collapse either as a drought response (too dry) or from over-watering (too wet). If you don't see the plant pushing new growth within a few weeks (a month or so), it's a good bet it isn't going to make it.

    You'll find no credible information suggesting fertilizer should be withheld from stressed plants. It's a horticultural myth. A plant's systems are designed to work in concert with a full compliment of nutrients in the grow medium at all times. If a plant needs supplemental nutrition - it needs supplemental nutrition, whether it's stressed or not.

    Al


    HU-46370764 thanked tapla (mid-Michigan, USDA z5b-6a)
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