Last edit? I think I know what they all are now.
URGENT EDIT: The red is almost dead now, and I still do not know what it is or what it needs. It seems to have gotten worse in the day, so I placed it in the shadow, but it might also be the soil it came in. Please, identifying the red one is now urgent as I want to save it!
There was a special promotion offer at a construction market near me, I got a cheap paper bag containing three random plants. They are marked as follows:
1) (marked as "mini green mix leaf") might be a relative of the rubber tree? I do not understand rubber tree care, so far I've overgrown one so badly it became an actual tree and is outside now, and the next one died for seemingly no reason with the same care. My third one stopped growing completely, not a single new leaf for almost a year but it isn't dying. So if this weird variegated one is also a rubber tree, halp. Used the same soil and fertilizer and ratios on all so far.
2) (marked as "mix 3 red") uhh... I draw a blank here. Begonia, maybe? Or a relative of Peperomia? Guessing by colour, which isn't very reliable in the plant world, but I'm not that good at houseplants. EDIT: possibly Iresine herbstii
3) (also marked as "mini green mix leaf") pretty sure this is a Calathea rufibarba mix, possibly with a pygmy gene or maybe just young. No idea how to care for this. Grandma had one for a short while, it died for unknown reasons. Maybe too sunny. Or maybe it needs special care?
So... any ideas? Do they need much water, little water, sandy soil, rich soil? I don't want to kill my smol new friends. Is the red one or last one maybe a shadow plant? Do any of them need air moisture / should I spray them? I do keep an air plant, so I'm fine with picky spray plants.
I'm thinking of planting #3 in a large pot with an asparagus fern and a pothos, where it wouldn't have that much direct sunlight. Please tell me if this is a bad idea, or it will happen because that pot has a space free. It's actually a balcony box, but I keep it hanging on the stair railing. They have normal garden soil and get fertilized once in a while, not often tho.
EDIT: Feel free to post your own mysteries, too! I can maybe possibly help, or maybe somebody else browsing the thread can. Feel free to share tips as well!
There was a special promotion offer at a construction market near me, I got a cheap paper bag containing three random plants. They are marked as follows:
1) (marked as "mini green mix leaf") might be a relative of the rubber tree? I do not understand rubber tree care, so far I've overgrown one so badly it became an actual tree and is outside now, and the next one died for seemingly no reason with the same care. My third one stopped growing completely, not a single new leaf for almost a year but it isn't dying. So if this weird variegated one is also a rubber tree, halp. Used the same soil and fertilizer and ratios on all so far.
2) (marked as "mix 3 red") uhh... I draw a blank here. Begonia, maybe? Or a relative of Peperomia? Guessing by colour, which isn't very reliable in the plant world, but I'm not that good at houseplants. EDIT: possibly Iresine herbstii
3) (also marked as "mini green mix leaf") pretty sure this is a Calathea rufibarba mix, possibly with a pygmy gene or maybe just young. No idea how to care for this. Grandma had one for a short while, it died for unknown reasons. Maybe too sunny. Or maybe it needs special care?
So... any ideas? Do they need much water, little water, sandy soil, rich soil? I don't want to kill my smol new friends. Is the red one or last one maybe a shadow plant? Do any of them need air moisture / should I spray them? I do keep an air plant, so I'm fine with picky spray plants.
I'm thinking of planting #3 in a large pot with an asparagus fern and a pothos, where it wouldn't have that much direct sunlight. Please tell me if this is a bad idea, or it will happen because that pot has a space free. It's actually a balcony box, but I keep it hanging on the stair railing. They have normal garden soil and get fertilized once in a while, not often tho.
EDIT: Feel free to post your own mysteries, too! I can maybe possibly help, or maybe somebody else browsing the thread can. Feel free to share tips as well!