Sporting colors just like its cultivar name suggests, dracaena lemon lime (Dracaena fragrans ‘Lemon Lime’) breaks the monotony of a solid-green interiorscape with its brightly striped variegated foliage. The ongoing care for this plant isn’t labor intensive. By attending to a few cultural details, even beginning gardeners can grow this plant with ease.Lemon-lime dracaena is in the asparagus plant family (Asparagaceae), and it’s also commonly referred to as a corn plant, although you won’t harvest asparagus or corn from this plant. Its foliage resembles the leaves of a cornstalk, and it’s in the asparagus plant family simply because of certain genetic similarities. As it grows, lemon-lime dracaena loses its lower leaves until a rosette of corn-like foliage is held atop its cane-like stem.
Dracaena Lemon Lime Care
Dracaena Fragrans 'lemon Lime'
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Lighting
Part Sun
Hardiness zone
10a - 12
Difficulty
Easy
How to Care for the Plant
Water
Usually, watering approximately once a week is adequate. Dracaena benefits from a light misting two or three times per week when a air is dry, especially during a winter. Misting also helps to keep a foliage clean and free of dust.
Pruning
Prune branches back to a natural fork to avoid leaving unsightly stubs. Cuts bleed if pruned in late winter or early spring so pruning should only be done between mid-summer and early autumn.
Fertilizer
An organic, balanced, liquid fertilizer once a month during the growth period is recommended.
Sunlight
Full sun to partial shade.
Soil
Loamy soil, a relatively even mix of sand, silt, and clay, feels fine-textured and slightly damp. It has ideal characteristics for gardening, lawns, and shrubs. Loamy soil has great structure, adequate drainage, is moisture-retaining, full of nutrients, easily cultivated and it warms up quickly in spring, but doesn't dry out quickly in summer.
Temperature
Considering this, it is ideal to provide warm temperatures between 70° to 75° degrees Fahrenheit (21° – 24° C). The plant may also survive at 53° degrees Fahrenheit (12° C), at a minimum, for a short amount of time.
Container
Whether your potted plants are indoors or outdoors, proper drainage is an essential element to ensure they stay healthy.
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