Dying sedirea japonica, please help!!! :(

[merytt]

Im in trouble whit my sedirea, 2 of its leaves have follen of.....i really dont know what to do... When the first one had follen, i remounted it and put more spag because i tough it had not enough humidity. Its growing on a branch, shag beneath roots, not to close to the growing point of leafs. I tought it may help stimulate roots to attract them grow more. Its not that it has bad root growth, just i tought the water was drying too fast to keep some humidity.
I spary it every morning, then watch that te water doesent get between leafs and edc. I fertilitize it really feek and one a week, water whit rain water. its growing under light in an open aquarium. Humidity from 65% to 97% after i have watered. Temp 18,5 -23,9 this week.

So where did i go wrong..... im sooooooooo sad i cant describe it...

[camille1585]

Can you give some more detail on the leaves? What I mean is; is it green leaves falling off, or are the rotting first? If they're rotting, where is the rot starting from?

If you have a photo of it that would be nice.

I'm currently on Sedirea #3, I lost the previous 2 to crown rot, despite being really really careful about keeping the leaves dry. They just seem to be super susceptible to it unless there is good air movement.

[merytt]

Originally Posted by camille1585

Can you give some more detail on the leaves? What I mean is; is it green leaves falling off, or are the rotting first? If they're rotting, where is the rot starting from?

If you have a photo of it that would be nice.

I'm currently on Sedirea #3, I lost the previous 2 to crown rot, despite being really really careful about keeping the leaves dry. They just seem to be super susceptible to it unless there is good air movement.

They are falling off without any changes in color or texture, just green.
Heres a photo

[merytt]

Heres is a photo from spring when i got it, it grew a new leaf and 5 new roots. Now 2 leafs gone ..... Any advice that you could give is appreciated!!
IMG_2396.jpg | Album.ee ( couldnt post it in some reason)

[mollycart1]

Maybe it is a combination of 'too much moss' and 'high humidity'? Have you checked the roots?

[nenella]

I agree with the above comment. Also I too have tried to grow this plant once and ended up killing it. It happened exactly the same.ie: leaves just 'fell off' roots green, leaves looked 'good' ...I ended up throwing it into the bin. I think they are very fussy about roots or plant 'leaf joints' which need to dry out very quickly. I now know better & will see with the next one I purchase--next year I hope!

[merytt]

Thanks for reply, so you suggest i should take the moss away? I can see the roots, the new ones are beautiful whit green ends, old ones have dryied up........

[camille1585]

If the roots are fine under the sphag, then that's not the problem. I would leave it in place then.

[merytt]

Originally Posted by camille1585

If the roots are fine under the sphag, then that's not the problem. I would leave it in place then.

Im sorry, its really difficult to explain.....The new roots are not so long to be in the spag, they have allmost reached the spag whit roottips. Old ones are in the spag, those dryed up.......Maybe i should put sedirea in a basket in bark that has bigger pieces ( for epiph.) ? Or SH? I have a piece of corck bark also, maybe there, whitout spag?
Just really want to save it, if it woud help, i would read bedtime storys for him, or do anything

[merytt]

You can see the fotos from the url above that i gave. Theres a photo of where its sitting on before i put it there in spring. Maybe you can understand better now, the new roots are on the " floor" where the plant is sitting, moss is around the branch, beneath the " floor" .