Repotted the mother plant of my silver sword philo. I went from a nursery pot to an 8 inch pot. The soil is a mix of indoor, orchid and perlite. Since the repotting, all the leaves have curled in and it looks super sad. Plants says it’s under watered? Thoughts? TIA.
oof yikes — any damage to the roots when you transferred? how big was your nursery pot?
좋아요 1개 The nursery pot was probably 5 inches.
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Also did you water it when you transferred it? If not you should absolutely do that, it’s always best to water when you repot a plant.
0개 좋아요 I bottom watered it. I wonder if I should water it from the top?
0개 좋아요 I wonder if I should take the plant out and try to grow better roots in a smaller nursery pot?
0개 좋아요 It actually just started raining at my house. So I stuck it outside to see if rainwater would help.
좋아요 1개 I always top water my plants because I can be bothered to wait for bottom watering although I do have trays so I let them sit in the drainage for a while before I use a wet vac to clean it all up. Hopefully a good watering helps
좋아요 1개 Of course as soon as I put the plant outside it stopped raining. Ugh. I’ll water it through tomorrow morning.
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She’s hella thirsty
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It might also just be shock. Give it “normal” water and wait a week or so to watch how it reacts. Some plants just HATE repotting.
5개 좋아요 mine never did this and it’s been repotted twice — the extreme curling is what made me ask about root damage. just food for thought! hope she bounces back 🤞
0개 좋아요 So I pulled out the props and found there are no roots. I had cut these off of the mother plant at the nodes. They are now in a vase of water trying to grow some roots.
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