DRAGON'S BLOOD TREE

[blondemommyof2]

i have a dragon's blood tree little baby and the other one died already... they're very tropical and I'm in pa which isn't tropical at all! i had them growing in my attic this summer... i moved them downstairs and one died... the other one is nice sized but i noticed it's starting to grow mold on the soil around it and i think it's because it's used to being hot and it's not as hot so the water isn't being soaked up by the plant... should i change the soil??? how can i keep it from dieing i already lost one...
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if it has mold growing on it you're definitely giving it too much water.
Let it dry out some, and water less.

Maren

[blondemommyof2]

i water it about once a week i think there's too much moisture in the air... what can i do for that

[Newt]

"Requiring excellent drainage and being suseptible to frost damage, its placement in gardens is restrictive. Container grown seedlings are very successful, but these will not attain the true character of the multi-branched crown without being planted in the ground and with the addition of significant time."
http://www.mediterraneangardensociet...aena.draco.cfm
http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plan...ena_draco.html

Newt

[blondemommyof2]

thanks i scraped off the soil with the mold on it and my plant still looks good[img]C:\My Documents\pictures\other pics\rooting hormone dragon's003.jpg[/img][/img]

[blondemommyof2]

ok ignore that can someone tell me how to post a pic here...

[Newt]

Lori,

From this page if you scroll down about 2/3 of the way:
http://www.plantideas.com/forums/faq.php

Can I post Images?
Images can indeed be shown in your posts. However, there is no facility at present for uploading images directly to this board. Therefore you must link to an image stored on a publicly accessible web server, e.g. http://www.some-unknown-place.net/my-picture.gif. You cannot link to pictures stored on your own PC (unless it is a publicly accessible server) nor to images stored behind authentication mechanisms such as Hotmail or Yahoo mailboxes, password-protected sites, etc. To display the image use either the BBCode [img] tag or appropriate HTML (if allowed).

Newt

[blondemommyof2]

too complicated for me sorry...

[Newt]

Lori,
Basically what that says is that you can't post pics that are stored on your computer. You would need to have them stored at someplace like photobucket.

Newt

[blondemommyof2]

all of my pics are stored on the computer