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title: "I am new to taking care of plants. I have had this plant for a couple…"
description: "I am new to taking care of plants. I have had this plant for a couple months and water it regularly. It is not doing well. What am I doing wrong?"
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# I am new to taking care of plants. I have had this plant for a couple…

_Eleanor님이 2025-11-02에 게시함_

I am new to taking care of plants. I have had this plant for a couple months and water it regularly. It is not doing well. What am I doing wrong?

![1개 중 1번째 첨부 파일](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/envGHW_X-k080Lalr8eOlaeYzQjyFFxlQdQFs-WQB5o/diDmWrIUSHqQLmerpxrB-w.webp?size=large)

## 6개의 댓글

### spearf님이 2025-11-02에 댓글을 남겼어요.

Hi!

I’d recommend repotting into a houseplant soil. Good soil is key to a happy plant.

The pot should have drainage. When watering, you want water to be dripping out of the drainage hole. Overwatering does not occur with too much water, it occurs watering too frequently. So, when watering, really drench the soil and leave time for it to dry before watering again.

What kind of light does this plant get?

Best of luck

#### Eleanor님이 2025-11-02에 답변했습니다.

Thank you! I will try to repot it… it was under a skylight (so fairly direct sun) I just moved it to a more shaded window after reading that they don’t like full sun

### Alicia님이 2025-11-03에 댓글을 남겼어요.

Ughhhh I love this plant,but every. Single. Time. I get one….. it dies. I never have success with it. Sending lucky vibes!

### Kelly님이 2025-11-03에 댓글을 남겼어요.

Same thing was happening with mine and I read up they need humidity so I started misting and its recovering now.

### Auxsman님이 2025-11-03에 댓글을 남겼어요.

I have a couple “wandering jew” plants myself and I find the like a more tropical/chunky/aerated soil mixture and like to be about 3 feet from a window that gets sun for about a half day. As for watering it used to be when the soil would dry out but now I leave it to my app reminders! I hope this helps!

### Jas님이 2025-11-04에 댓글을 남겼어요.

I’ve noticed that mine hates tap water, I switched to distilled and she’s done a ton better ever since!

![1개 중 1번째 첨부 파일](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/UXygynqDIX4nnOYbXB-pPGLJjytX0pGTLDY02I-qF94/15vhiw5RT4O4ykg5Qgxv6A.webp?size=large)

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