Hanging ivy indoor plant crispy leaves and mouldy soil

[anon1289]

Help!

I'm not sure what I've been doing wrong! I have a hanging ivy plant and the leaves have gone super 'crispy' and the soil covered in lots of little white blobs that I assume are mould. Pic attached

Can I save it?

Are you sure the little white blobs isn't just some perlite mixed in with the compost? Also, how often have you been watering it?

It's a rotting pot of mud! Compost it and start again, surely!

If there's mould on the top of the soil, that means it's been over-watered. The soil needs to dry out between waterings so that air can get to the roots.

It does look quite dead though.

It's dead.

It looks like you haven't watered it.

If you have been watering it and the soil is wet, then you've over-watered it and the roots have rotted, meaning no water gets up into the plant and it dies from lack of water.

If you're sure you've watered it just right, the soil is moist and the roots are healthy, then just conceivable the leaves have been sucked dry by a bad infestation of spider mite, but i that case you would see what looks like fine spider webs over the tips of all the shoots.

Agree with the suggestion above that the white blobs look like perlite, mixed in to compost to make it more free draining.