Beginner Gardening: Portulacaria afra dropping too many leaves, 1 by tapla

tapla wrote:
The likely suspect with this plant is always over-watering, though yours doesn't appear to be getting enough light, either. Light (not enough) wouldn't be directly responsible for the damaged tips, though it could be responsible for the leaf loss. Getting back to the topic, I would say that if you approach it logically, the odds are: if you can eliminate over-watering as the source of the problem, you need to look to an accumulation of soluble salts in the soil. When you watered, were you watering very thoroughly so you flushed accumulating salts out of the soil, or did you water in small sips so little or no water exited the drain hole? There is a drain hole, right?



Al