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How to Grow and Care for Golden dewdrops

Golden dewdrops, also known as Pigeon berry, Skyflower, Forget-me-not bush, Duranta

Golden dewdrops thrives in warm climates with abundant sunlight and requires minimal maintenance, making it an easy-care plant. Key care points include ensuring well-draining soil to prevent root rot and regular pruning to maintain shape and encourage blooming. Occasional feeding during the growing season will promote healthier growth and more vibrant flowers.

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Watering schedule: Every 1-2 weeks

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Sunlight Requirements: Full sun

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Planting and Growing Golden dewdrops

ToughnessHigh
Care LevelLow
Care DifficultyEasy
LifespanPerennial
Watering ScheduleEvery 1-2 weeks
Sunlight RequirementsFull sun
Soil pH5.6-6.5
Planting TimeSpring, Fall
Hardiness Zones
9-11
ToxicityToxic to Humans
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How to Water Golden dewdrops?

Watering schedule: Every 1-2 weeks

Humidity Level: Medium humidity

Native to tropical environments, golden dewdrops thrives in moist conditions and is well-adapted to the high humidity of its origin. It exhibits a preference for consistent moisture but can withstand brief periods of dryness. Watering should be adjusted to once every 1-2 weeks, aligning with its moderate drought tolerance. Typically grown outdoors due to its love for warm climates, golden dewdrops benefits from mulching to retain soil moisture, especially during its active growing season.
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What Are the Sunlight Requirements for Golden dewdrops?

Sunlight Requirements: Full sun

Sunlight Tolerance: Partial sun

Golden dewdrops thrives in full sun, needing at least 6 hours of direct sunlight to flourish. The intensity and duration of light play crucial roles in maximizing growth and enhancing the plant's prolific blooming potential. It tolerates partial sun, though reduced light may lead to fewer flowers and diminished vibrancy. In adapting to light variations, golden dewdrops can exhibit leaf changes to optimize light absorption. Ideally, outdoor planting should favor unobstructed southern exposure. If grown indoors, a south-facing window is recommended to ensure sufficient light for robust health and flowering.
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What Is the Ideal Temperature Range for Golden dewdrops?

Ideal Temperature: 20 - 38 ℃

Temperature Tolerance: 0 - 43 ℃

Golden dewdrops demonstrates notable resilience to temperature variations, tolerating ranges from 0℃ (32℉) to 43℃ (109℉). Despite its hardiness, extreme cold may cause leaf drop or dieback, while excessive heat can lead to wilting and sunscald. To mitigate cold stress, provide frost protection or move the plant indoors. During heatwaves, ensure ample watering and partial shade. This adaptability makes golden dewdrops suitable for diverse climates, although proactive care is essential during temperature extremes to maintain its health and vigor.
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What Soil is Best for Golden dewdrops?

Soil Composition: Sand, Loam, Chalky, Clay

Soil pH: 5.6-6.5

Golden dewdrops prefers rich, loamy soils, and it cannot tolerate heavy soils that hold a lot of moisture. High water retention of the soil can cause golden dewdrops to wilt. This plant is naturally found in coastal areas with sandy soils, so it grows best in rich, light, loamy soils that drain well. Ideally the soil should be slightly acidic, but golden dewdrops can also tolerate neutral and slightly alkaline soils (pH 5.6-7.5).
If you need to increase fertility and drainage of your garden soil before planting golden dewdrops, add sand, perlite or vermiculite, and organic matter (compost, manure, mulch, etc.) to it and mix everything well.
Well-draining standard potting mix is generally used for golden dewdrops plants cultivated in containers.

How to Fertilize Golden dewdrops?

Golden dewdrops thrives with regular fertilization, enhancing growth and bloom. Use high nitrogen fertilizers every 4-6 weeks during growing season. Apply according to package instructions, typically 1-2 pounds per 100 square feet. In winter, reduce frequency as growth slows. Over-fertilization can harm golden dewdrops, so ensure soil is moist before applying and avoid contact with leaves. For juveniles, a gentler, balanced feed supports root establishment. Proper fertigation maintains golden dewdrops's vibrancy and resilience.
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How to Prune Golden dewdrops?

Benefits of Pruning: Grow vigorously

Golden dewdrops is a vigorous grower and can grow up to 6 m high and around 6 m wide at a rate of 1/2m each year. It is an very fast-growing shrub, so to keep your golden dewdrops manageable and tidy, you must prune it each year. Depending on the location, some find that the golden dewdrops actually blooms twice a year, in spring and autumn. Because of this, it is recommended to prune your golden dewdrops in early spring, before the growing season begins. While pruning, focus on managing its shape and removing dead branches.
Considering that golden dewdrops flowers emerge on new growth, you can prune the plant severely or cut it back in early spring to promote flower production.

Golden dewdrops produces small orange fruits that look like berries. These are poisonous, so it is recommended to remove them as soon as they emerge if you live with young children or pets. Removing the fruits will also prevent unwanted the golden dewdrops plants in the garden, considering they reproduce via seeds.

Always wear gloves while pruning, as mature golden dewdrops plants have thorns which can cause injury. Also, direct contact with the plant's sap can cause an allergic reaction in sensitive people.
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How to Propagate Golden dewdrops?

Propagation Time: Spring, Early summer

Propagation Type: Cutting, Sowing

Native to tropical regions, golden dewdrops is an ornamental plant with vibrant flowers and cascading branches. Its propagation is effectively achieved through cuttings; young stem cuttings should be selected for their vigor and healthy appearance. For successful rooting, cuttings should be treated with rooting hormone and then planted in well-draining soil mix, ensuring they receive adequate moisture and humidity. The careful management of light exposure and temperature will greatly assist in the healthy development of new golden dewdrops plants. This method offers a reliable way to maintain the ornamental characteristics of the parent plant.
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How to Transplant Golden dewdrops?

Transplanting Time: Late spring, Early summer

The best time to transplant golden dewdrops is during the warmth of late spring to early summer. This allows the plant time to establish itself before colder temperatures arrive. Choose a sunny location with well-draining soil, and gently tease the roots when transplanting for best results.
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How to Care for Golden dewdrops in Winter?

Winter Minimum: 0 - 43 ℃

Golden dewdrops originates from the tropical climates of America and the Caribbean, naturally accustomed to a frost-free environment. For winter care, gardeners must protect it from cold temperatures, relocating it indoors if necessary. Ample sunlight and reduced water are necessary as the plant enters a dormant phase. A well-drained, nutrient-rich soil enhances golden dewdrops's resilience during the colder months.
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How to Plant Golden dewdrops?

Planting Time: Spring, Fall

Indoors-potted:In an indoor pot, golden dewdrops brings a touch of the tropics with its vibrant foliage; rotate it occasionally to ensure even growth.
Outdoors-potted:When potted outdoors, golden dewdrops may need staking as it thrives; its branches can become heavy with lush leaves and flowers.
Outdoors-in the ground:Planted in the ground, golden dewdrops flourishes and can form natural barriers; be cautious of its quick spread in favorable climates.

How to Repot Golden dewdrops?

Repotting Schedule: 2-3 years

Repot golden dewdrops every 2-3 years to accommodate its bushy growth and encourage a flush of vibrant blooms. Spring is ideal, aligning with its growth spurt. For this fast-growing shrub, select a pot one size larger. Post-repotting, ensure bright indirect light and even moisture for swift recovery. A deep pot supports its root system, crucial for the plant's overall vitality.
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Common Pests & Diseases

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Wilting
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Wilting

Wilting is an alarming disease affecting Golden dewdrops, typified by drooping or curling leaves, diminished growth, and eventual plant death if unchecked. It is caused by either bacterial, viral, or fungal infections, or environmental stressors like overwatering, poor drainage, drought, and extreme temperatures.

Brown spot
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Brown spot

This infection can cause brown spots or patches to appear on the plant.

Solutions: In minor cases of brown spot, there isn’t any need to treat the disease. However, if much of the foliage is affected and defoliation occurs, the plant will benefit from getting rid of the infection. It is recommended to start by applying organic treatment options, working up to the more potent synthetic, chemical fungicides if necessary. Organic options won’t kill the fungus, but will prevent it from spreading. Dissolve ½ teaspoon of baking soda and one teaspoon of liquid soap in a gallon of water. Using a spray bottle, spray on tops and bottoms of leaves until the mixture drips off. Repeat every two weeks until existing spots stop enlarging and new spots no longer appear. Spray a copper-based fungicidal soap on the leaves, coating the top and bottom leaf surfaces. Reapply as directed on the product label. Copper penetrates the leaf surface and prevents germination of spores so the fungus cannot spread. Apply an all-purpose fungicide to the entire plant, following the label instructions carefully.
Flower withering
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Flower withering

Flowers may dry out due to a sudden change in environment or because the plant has completed its normal flowering period.

Solutions: If flower withering is a natural progression due to age, there is nothing that can be done to slow or stop the process. Once hormones within the plant begin the process of senescence, it’s irreversible. For lack of water, immediately water the plant using room temperature rainwater, bottled spring water, or filtered tap water. Water container plants until excess water drains out the bottom; water in-ground plants until the soil is soaked but there isn’t standing water on the surface. In the event of nutritional deficiencies, the best solution is to use a granular or water-soluble liquid fertilizer, and apply it to the soil at about half the recommended dosage. Keep it off the leaves and make sure granular products are watered into the soil well. If the plant is infected with a bacterial or fungal pathogen, there is no course of treatment that cures the diseased plants. The best solution is to remove the infected plants and dispose of the plant material off-site. Do not put in a compost pile.
Nutrient deficiencies
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Nutrient deficiencies

A lack of nutrients will cause a widespread yellowing of the leaves. The yellowing may begin at the base or top of the plant.

Solutions: There are several easy ways to remedy the nutrient deficiencies in soils. Use a water-soluble fertilizer. Fertilizers will include most or all of the macro and micro-nutrients the plants need to thrive. Adding some fertilizer to the soil will make those nutrients available and can combat deficiencies. Regularly apply organic fertilizer pellets. Organic fertilizers such as animal manures and bonemeal can supply plants with all the nutrients that they need to grow strong and healthy. Apply compost. Though not as finely tuned as artificial fertilizer, compost can nevertheless be rich in important nutrients and should be applied to the soil regularly. Apply nutrients via foliar application. In addition to supplementing the soil with nutrients, foliar fertilizer can be applied directly to the plant's leaves. Nutrients offered via foliar application are often taken up even quicker than those put in the soil, so the foliar application can be great for swiftly addressing specific deficiencies.
Iron deficiency
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Iron deficiency

An iron deficiency can cause yellowing of the leaves, but the veins will remain green and clear.

Solutions: Here's what to do to remedy an iron deficiency in plants: Utilize a fertilizer that has iron. This is the most direct method of addressing iron deficiency. Fertilizer can be incorporated into the soil, or, to see even quicker results, use a foliar spray that includes iron. This is particularly useful for plants grown in containers. Add organic material. Often iron deficiency is not due to a lack of iron present in the soil. Rather, a deficiency occurs because iron is not available in a form that plants can take up. Adding organic material, such as compost, can remedy this. Rich organic material contains micronutrients that can help plants better absorb iron. Adding organic matter to the soil also helps to lower the pH and adds more acidity. Test the soil's pH. Overly alkaline soils can cause iron deficiencies in many plants. Adding sulfur, or another substance that reduces alkalinity, may help if the soil is too alkaline.
Leaf rot
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Leaf rot

This pathogen can cause the leaves to rot.

Solutions: Bacterial infections need to be treated quickly to prevent the spread to neighboring, healthy plants, potentially wiping out large sections of your indoor or outdoor garden. In mild cases: Use sterilized (10% bleach solution) pruning shears or scissors to remove any infected plant parts, making sure to dispose of them off site. Use a copper-based bactericide to treat the unaffected foliage, as well as the soil, and neighboring plants. Follow the manufacturer’s rate and timing directions found on the product label. In severe cases, where more than half the leaves are affected: Remove all of the infected plants from the garden, disposing of them off site. Treat the soil and neighboring plants using a copper-based bactericide. Follow the manufacturer’s rate and timing directions found on the product label.

The Toxicity of Golden dewdrops

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Highly Toxic to Humans

If ingested, golden dewdrops can harm humans due to its extremely toxic qualities. Symptoms are dangerous, ranging from severe to life-threatening. The toxic parts of the plant are the fruits and the leaves, which can cause severe vomiting, diarrhea, and stomachache once they're eaten. Because of its lovely appearance, golden dewdrops can be grown as an ornamental in gardens or around homes, which may make them easily available to children who are especially vulnerable to the toxic effects of this plant.

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More General Info About Golden dewdrops

Attributes of Golden dewdrops

Plant Type
Shrub
Lifespan
Perennial
Spread
60 cm to 3 m
Bloom Time
Mid spring, Late spring, Summer, Early fall, Mid fall
Flower Color
Purple
White
Blue
Leaf Color
Green
Flower Size
2.5 cm
Plant Height
1 m to 7 m
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Usages of Golden dewdrops

Environmental Protection Value

The golden dewdrop has a well-developed root system, strong water absorption and water retention capacity, and has good soil and water conservation effect.

Garden Use

Golden dewdrops can be clustered in flowerbeds, yards, at the poolside, and so on, and can also be used as a hedge. It is a popular choice as an annual plant due to its bright, appealing blooms that appear throughout the summer, remaining all year long in tropical regions. This plant is a good choice for tropical landscaping, Mediterranean gardens, and container plantings, and pairs well with larger-flowered plants like Canna and African lilies.

Scientific Classification of Golden dewdrops

Family
Verbena
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Golden dewdrops (Duranta erecta)
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Golden dewdrops is characterized by its evergreen, sprawling growth, typically manifesting as a shrub or small tree with a slightly weeping form. It can reach heights of 10-20 feet (3-6 meters) and displays showy flowers amidst its foliage. This species is equipped with mature thorns and exhibits fruits that contribute to its ornamental value. The leaves have a robust green hue, and its flowers are notable for their visual appeal.
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FAQs About Golden dewdrops

Why is my golden dewdrops not blooming?

If your golden dewdrops is not blooming, it usually indicates that the plant doesn't get enough sunlight. For example, if it is an indoor plant, it might be too far away from a window. Proper amount of nutrients in the soil is also an important factor in flower production, so make sure to add fertilizer during the growing season. Considering that the flowers are produced on new growth, blooming can be also stimulated by pruning.

Why are the lower leaves of my golden dewdrops drooping?

If the lower leaves of your golden dewdrops are drooping, it may be an indication that you are either overwatering or underwatering your plant. Ideally, you should water the plant when the top 5 to 8 cm of the soil are dry. If you provided enough water, and yet the leaves of golden dewdrops are still drooping, it might also be because the plant has outgrown its container. Replant your golden dewdrops in a bigger container, or if possible, grow it outside.

Why are the leaves of my golden dewdrops pale?

This can happen for several reasons. The plant might not be getting enough sunlight, or there is a lack of available nutrients in the soil. For this reason, it is recommended to always put golden dewdrops in a sunny spot, and to use slow-releasing fertilizer during the growing season to stimulate blooming and ensure that your plant remains healthy.

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