SOS!!!

我的好朋友小R度假两个星期去了，把她心爱的植物留在我家，嘱托我认真照看。

这棵不起眼的小树苗，是她的"plant of love"，因为是她的未婚夫千里迢迢从伦敦寄过来的求婚礼物，当作性命一样，她说有一次他们吵架，这棵植物就掉叶子，然后他们复合以后，这棵植物也奇迹般地在冬天发芽。晕！我感觉是小R在吵架的时候不浇水，然后可能还把树叶当作出气筒，自己忘记了，呵呵。

这个月忙得晕头转向，连自己喝水的时间都不够，今天难得休息，忽然发现这棵“爱的树苗”有枯萎的迹象，这是非常恐怖的，我简直不敢相信小R回来以后惊闻噩耗的样子。

如果是病人，我还有办法，但是植物，我就束手无策啦，请各位有经验的同学们，献计献策，务必帮忙，能否告知这是什么植物，需要多少水分，阳光，还有什么可以做的，555555，大家一定要救我，SOS!!!

[落花飘零]

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,楼上说的营养棒就是施肥,最好是开春后使用.仅供参考.:)

[sweetie遐思]

千万别多浇水,更不能施肥,因为冬天的植物也须冬眠.若叶黄,落叶

等一般不是缺水,反而是水滞留与根部,容易烂根.若家中暖气太足,

一周一次尚可,若室内温度偏低,二周一次即可.

[feiyangmom]

落花,
这么多建议把你都搅晕了吧?:)我以前也养过这种植物.比较倾向寒枝的意见,一周多浇透一次就可以了,其实好多植物忌讳水多,经常会涝死而不是旱死.我原来还在盆里插小棍棍(营养棒之类,叫Plant Food Spikes),HOMEDEPOT,LOWES,KMART等都有卖,能帮助长叶子,看你有没有时间去买.

[纵然平行]

落花飘零: 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]

落花姐姐人气真旺！呵呵，凑个热闹！

[寒枝]

另外，看不出你的花盆底下是不是漏水。我家的是那种水会漏到下层的。如果根部泡了水的话，一般植物都吃不消，除非是柳树。

[寒枝]

我家有盆叶子一模一样的。我一般就用清水浇。那清水不是直接从水龙头接完就浇上去的，我一般先接到一个敞口的瓶子里，放在太阳晒得到的地方，晾几天才用。因为以前听人说水中的chlorine对植物不好，还有就是这样就保证了水温跟室温一样。。另外浇花应该选在或清晨或夜晚。对于你的这种植物，我是每一周半浇透一次，感觉它非常皮实。我家的温度在55到68之间。

[fieldhouse]

好像没什么大问题。图上显示有很多嫩枝新叶， 老的叶子枯干一些也正常。我的一盆类似的植物在我休假时两周不浇水都可以。
建议就用清水浇一下就行了，不要浇得太湿。如果是我，就每三四天浇50－100ml。不用晒太阳，就放在窗边就行。估计你们那里也不会有很多晴天。反正你的朋友就离开两周。

以上建议仅根据个人经验。我也有bad credit for plants. 前年我同事Amy 送的两盆Ivy 竟然死掉了。她直到现在还说，unbelievable,what kind of guys cannot even keep Ivy alive?!
上面提到的我类似的植物就是为了证明我是normal guy，而不是Anti-plants guy而买的.

[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]

会不会是那种到了冬天即落叶到了春天又自己活过来的植物？如需营养液，超市或苗圃里即可买到,但要先弄清这是什么植物。有没有时间去苗圃问问专家？

[流沙随风]

你是医生，不妨就当植物人医治?

俺觉得这责任不在你，没准是小俩口又吵架了, 呵呵

[落花飘零]

说了跟没说一样啊老鼠，具体一点，什么营养液，怎么浇法，火烧眉毛的事情啊。

[Dalaoshu]

哈，看这种样子只是一个观赏植物，非常娇气，大多数都需要营养液的，不能用一般的水浇。