Lost Cause?

[ScotTi]

Stoplight 3yrs without color, just ends up with a few tiny red spots on black/purple leaves. Growing in filtered light, well fed, leaves 12"-14" long. What else can I do to cut the lights back on?

 

[Moose]

Stoplight 3yrs without color, just ends up with a few tiny red spots on black/purple leaves. Growing in filtered light, well fed, leaves 12"-14" long. What else can I do to cut the lights back on?

More sun

 

[ScotTi]

More sun

Ron, When I first planted the plant is was in more sun, plant looked bad. Advice given move to filtered sun. I have another Stoplight that gets more sun and that one looks like crap.

 

[Moose]

Scott - then give it a stronger filtered sun. As your plant gets taller, will it grow towards brighter light ? The results could be the following:

 

[Moose]

Here is the side of the Stoplight that gets alot of shading. Notice the dark leaves like yours ?

 

[Crazy for Crotons]

Scott,

Sometimes it can take years for a plant to color up. Often times, it's a bad clone that never improves. I've got three air layers on my Stoplight. I'll bring you one at the next meeting July 16th.

Ray

 

[ScotTi]

In her younger years...

 

[Crotonologist]

... Often times, it's a bad clone that never improves.

It will be interesting to see if Scott's plant will color up again with more sun...

 

[Crotonologist]

Here's my biggest Stoplight in full sun most of the day...

 

[palmisland]

This is a neighbor's. It seems to like the spot it's in & only gets morning sun.

 

[ScotTi]

Here is my other Stoplight that receives morning sun and stays in the sun untill about 1pm.