After a decade of (plant) friendship... is there any hope?
This is Finn. The little fella has chugged along for a decade - he's lived with me in three different cities, 7 different apts, and has been alongside me my entire adult life.
Unfortunately I went through a bit of a depressive episode, and neglected watering him for a while. Then I found myself in a bit of a vicious cycle of feeling so bad that I neglected him, that I avoided doing anything about, and then it got worse, and so on and so forth.
I inherited him from a brown-thumbed college roommate so I don't even know what kind of plant he is (dracaena deremensis? maybe??). I'm at a bit of a loss as to where to even begin.
I want to break the cycle! Please help me determine what type of plant Finn is, and what I can do to keep him in the realm of the living (besides a good watering).
Info:
Indirect bright light, lives by several other plants, in a room kept at 68 degrees. He's had issues with his soil shrinking away from the sides of the pot for a while, but I was scared to repot and potentially kill him. I have never given him fertilizer or anything, and I don't know anything about the soil. I typically gave him about 1/3 of a cup of water every 2-3 days when I was keeping up with it better, slowly and in spurts, to make sure it was actually absorbed by the soil rather than running down the sides. In the past I have cut off brown leaves.