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title: "I need help, what am I doing wrong with my peacock plant? It seems to…"
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# I need help, what am I doing wrong with my peacock plant? It seems to…

_Lagt ut av Kinaplants den 2025-07-23_

I need help, what am I doing wrong with my peacock plant? It seems to keep heading towards the route of death

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## 5 kommentarer

### happysoxdonkey kommenterte den 2025-07-23

Hi, is it getting enough sunlight? Poor thing plants can be so difficult.

I keep mine in an eastern facing window about one foot away and he seems to do well.

It looks pretty healthy to me but droopy. How is the watering going? They can be a bit temperamental with the right watering schedule.

#### Kinaplants svarte den 2025-07-23

I finally just transferred it into this self watering system, hopefully that helps? I have my aerogarden near it but I might change the location like you suggested! I was concerned it might be too much sunlight but I’m new to this whole thing. Thanks so much for responding!

#### happysoxdonkey svarte den 2025-07-23

My pleasure! I hope that helps. I don’t know how they do in self watering pots but they seem to prefer chunkier soil in my experience, instead of regular potting soil.

#### Kinaplants svarte den 2025-07-23

What is the soil you use called??

#### happysoxdonkey svarte den 2025-07-24

Espoma cactus mix is great. I don’t recommend miracle grow but there are some other great succulents or cactus mixes that work really well!

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