Plant Description: Spotted Gold Dust Dracaena

Long striped foliage, Gold Dust Dracaena has smaller leaves than other Dracaena and beautiful speckled foliage. Each leaf is dusted in shades of gold to creamy white. Just as easy to care for as other Dracaena species, but with denser foliage and a shrub-like shape.

Plant specification

Planting And Care of Gold Dust Dracaena

Sunlight

• It grows well in bright indirect sunlight.
• Need to provide bright indirect light (2-3 hours) when indoors to maintain foliage colour.
• This plant doesn’t mind low light conditions. Do not place the plant under direct sunlight in summers.

Soil

• Soil should be well drain and porus.

Watering in Gold Dust Dracaena

• Poke your finger or plain small stick into the soil to check the moisture.
• Apply 1 cup (Approx. 50 ml) water when the top soil (3-4 inch) in pot feels dry to touch.
• Apply water probably in the morning or evening time.
• Do not overwater the plant.
• As a rule of thumb, water the plant thoroughly in the summer and reduce watering in winter and rainy season.

Application of fertilizer

• Before application of fertilizer loosen the topsoil without disturbing the roots of the plant so it can uptake the nutrients and moisture.
• During the main growing season (January-March) feed the plant with organic fertilizer once a month.
• Dracaena Golden Milky likes rich compost mixed, feed it twice in a year to increase growth.
• Apply water immediately after application of fertilizer.

Plant Protection

• Remove dead, infected or damaged plant parts and discard them away from the plants.
• For any insect attack or disease, you can use Neem oil, Eucalyptus oil or Citrus oil spray for primary treatment.

Don’ts

• Do not over water the plant especially when pot does not have drainage holes.
• keep away from the AC Vents.
• Do not apply water on plant leaves.

Initial care for 1-2 weeks after receiving plant at your location.

• Check the moisture in the soil before watering it.
• Poke your finger into the soil, if dry then apply water.
• Keep the plant in indirect light.
• Do not re-pot immediately after receiving it.

Special feature of Gold Dust Dracaena

It is an air purifier indoor plant.

Ornamental uses of Dracaena