What Your Plants Are Telling You
Even though you may think that your plants can not communicate with you, they actually can! Brown or yellow spots, drooping leaves, and falling blooms are all ways of communicating with your plant.
If your plant has brown and/or yellow spots on its leaves, this is most likely a fungal or bacterial infection, which may have arisen due to high humidity and still air— often occurring in combination with overwatering and/or poor drainage. Fungal spots can vary in size, shape, and color just like bacterial spots. If this is the case, isolate your plant from others, strip the affected areas, and treat it with a copper-based fungicide. Healthy regrowth should emerge, and you may need to reapply the fungicide every couple of weeks.
There are several reasons why your plant's leaves might start to droop. The most common cause is a watering imbalance - either overwatering or underwatering, but it could also be due to exposure to cold drafts, too much light, or intense heat. Your plant's leaves and soft stems are held upright by cell turgor (pressure). How to tell if your plant needs water, stick your finger about an inch into the soil, toward the roots, and if it feels moist and wet, you may want to wait a few days and check again to see if your plant needs a drink. If you feel that the soil is dry or has hardly any moisture, go ahead and give it a good drink.
If the plant’s soil is soaking wet and seems like it will not be able to dry out on its own, I recommend completely changing out the soil. Carefully remove the plant from its pot and with lukewarm water, rinse off the roots as well as you can. Then discard the old soil and replant your plant into moist soil.
A common sign your plant is stressed is if it's dropping leaves and flowers. Stressors can include lack of water, over-watering, temperature change, less light – you name it. If the problem isn't too little or too much water, or something else easy to identify, have patience. It is best to keep your plants evenly and well-watered. Mulch around your plants to help conserve water and keep moisture levels even. This will also help prevent cracking and as long as calcium is sufficient in your soil, will reduce the incidence of blossoms dropping.
You can also communicate back to your plants! Some studies show that music or talking to your plants can increase growth. So go ahead and gossip and vent to them!
Your Plants are Trying to Tell You Something- https://www.espoma.com/gardening/indoor-gardening/your-plants-are-trying-to-tell-you-something/#:~:text=Did%20you%20know%20houseplants%20can,Hold%20off%20on%20the%20water.
6 Things Your Plant Leaves Are Trying to Tell You- https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/home/gardening/g2681/plant-leaves/
Hi Jadan! I literally don't know anything about plants. After reading this post I learned that plants can tell you so many things. You just have to know the signs, what the signs mean, and how to fix it.
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