I have a Nasturtium plant in a pot in my cubicle at work. I know it's normally an outdoor plant, so that could be part of the problem I'm having with it. But anyway, it's very weird-looking. It's all one long stem with leaves coming off of it. After it grew too tall for the stake that was in its pot, I hung it over the coat hook in my cubicle. I don't really have anything else for it to grow on. But anyway, the bottom-most leaves are always dying. It has a ton of nice green leaves at the very top, and then for about 4 feet below that to the ground there were NO leaves left until leaves started sprouting out of where the old ones used to be. So it has a bunch of tiny leaves from the bottom for about a foot up the stem (those keep dying, too), and then there's about 3 feet of totally bare stem, and then the top has about 13 leaves on it on their own long stems. LOL it's so weird. What is the issue? I water it pretty good about 3 times a week. Is it because it should be in the ground so maybe it's root-bound in the pot? It wasn't very tall, though, when the bottom leaves started falling off- maybe 6 inches long. So I don't know.. Any ideas? Thanks.
The problems are probably due to lack of sufficient light. The top leaves shade the lower ones, which then die and fall off. It would do much better outside, but then it would be full of aphids.
It gets bright sunlight all day near a window and direct sunlight for a few hours in the afternoon. There aren't enough leaves to shade lower ones. lol
