Please help me keep houseplants alive (Mexican Hat Plant)

[DawnChoral]

I am mocked at home as I don’t manage to keep houseplants alive.

apart from watering, what else is wrong with my Mexican Hat Plant? It looks nothing like the online pictures - all tall and leggy and unhappy. Help me, but be kind please?

i have a few other sad houseplants and some dead ones :(

Tall and leggy sounds like it's not getting enough sunlight. As a general rule houseplants like bright, indirect light. So if a south-ish facing window then keep them about a metre away and if northern-ish then they'll probably do better right by the window. I have a lot of houseplants so I tend to rotate them around the house so that they all get a turn in the prime positions!

Water when the soil has started to dry out, so probably about once a week in summer and less often during winter. Don't let them sit in water, the roots can rot and it's very difficult to revive them once they get to that stage. When they're actively growing then they need feeding once every couple of weeks. I like baby bio houseplant liquid feed.

Hope that helps 🙂

I started to use the planta app, my plants are thankfull!

Thank you both - helpful.

@Reallybadidea do you think my tall and leggy Mexican Hat Plant is salvageable or should I get rid and start again? I’ve moved it somewhere lighter now, and put in a slightly bigger pot. And bought some plant food.

@FuckYouEzekiel ooh, that app looks useful, thank you!

Where there's life there's hope I say! I think it will start to perk up a bit quite quickly but might take a fair while to look like a really healthy plant. I rescued an almost dead African violet from homebase about 6 weeks ago and although it stopped dying almost immediately, it's only starting to really get going with new growth now.

So maybe get another one to love too in the meantime? I think houseplants look lovely in groups and actually they often do better when there's a few sitting together because it increases the humidity around them, which they generally love.