Please look at the picture and tell me if this is what they are supposed to look like.
Space Baby?
Oh ,my goodness.
Had it been blooming heaving ?
Was the center not getting proper light ?
Too much water ?
Maybe leach the pot good and or re-pot proper PH and light ?
Do any of your other plants have the same type of center?
Nancy
Allison, a lot of the ones you gave me look like this now. I would like to know what I am doing wrong. Some of mine has never bloomed. i think I may have over watered (with fertilizer) some of mine. Linda
I would take two or three of your plants to a county entomologist. They could tell you whether or not you have a bug problem. Hopefully, not!! Do you grow under lights or in wondows?
Nancy
What about heat effect? As I recall, Makshi was melting! I've felt that the heat has stalled growth in my AV's. OR could it be just the shock of travel that stops growth for a while and then it starts up again?
I suppose my question really is; has the plant stopped growing, then started back up?
Heat could do this, too much fertilizer or watering
Rob's says certain varieites do it, or plants that have been over blooming a long time and light did not get to the crown.
I've never had this problem.
Kenton was having a problem and he leached his plants and they got better.
Also are your plants on wicks getting too wet ? Take them out of the pot see if their wet in the middle
PS have you been isolating 2-3 months? Washing good before after working outside or other plants inside ?
Strerilizing tools, sciccors everything everything that goes near plants. No new plants or cut flowers in the home ?
I'm isolating all my new plants on light shelves in the morning room. Most of them look fine and have started putting out new growth, including a couple that looked that that photo initially. I have a few that still look like that! I think some plants get that small center growth when I first have them just because they are adjusting to a new environment... most eventually seem to grow out of it, and if I have one that continues to sulk I just put down a leaf and eventually have a nice little plant that behaves better. Sometimes I see the same thing with newly up-potted plantlets that I've grown from leaf, and again, they seem to recover, maybe after they've had some time to grow more roots and adjust to their new pots.
Yes I did some more reading, Stress, shipping ..heat stress can cause slow or no new growth/center growth.
ALSO if you are using a Bloom Booster fertilizer The bottom of the leaves grow OK on a 10-14-10 but on a Bloom Booster Fertilizer 10-50-19 stunted the center growth
They showed once the Bloom Booster was discontinued the center growth began to grow normaly.
ALSO NOT ENOUGH LIGHT ~ The Peticoles stretch and center small/no growth.
Once plant was moved to center of light tuby and held higher on an over turned Deli container the new growth cam in with shorter petioles.
EACH Variety is different some needing more or less light than others.
Grpwers like Rob's for one say it is best never to use Bloom Booster Fertilize.
My new plants have enough light (sunshine and florescent bulbs), as they are not reaching up looking for the sun... I've been moving some of the sulky ones to the ends of the light shelf, to see if too much light might be a factor. I mostly use plain filtered water on my new plants. I think they've had a pinch of fertilizer just once or twice, and that was about 1/4 strength. I really think it's a matter of slowly recovering from shipping stress and adapting to a different environment... no matter how much I supplement with lights and humidity trays, this isn't the Florida environment they enjoyed at Lorry's or at Allison's house!
Let me add that not every new plant is doing this, just some of them, and a few of the sulky ones have already started to look better... so I really do think it's just a matter of patience and trying different things until you figure out where they are happy in your home.