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title: "My niece has this lemon lime prayer plant. Can you help me with why…"
description: "My niece has this lemon lime prayer plant. Can you help me with why the leaves curl inward? And can you see if there’s anything going on that might need some…"
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community: "Anything about plants"
author: "Rhona"
published: "2025-04-20T22:46:21.065343Z"
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# My niece has this lemon lime prayer plant. Can you help me with why…

_Posted by Rhona on 2025-04-20_

My niece has this lemon lime prayer plant. Can you help me with why the leaves curl inward? And can you see if there’s anything going on that might need some help with please? Thank you

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## 5 comments

### User123 commented on 2025-04-21

It may need to re-pot

#### Rhona replied on 2025-04-21

Do they like to have compact roots?

#### User123 replied on 2025-04-21

No plant likes to be root bound, but you don’t want to have too much empty space in the pot

### Phil commented on 2025-04-21

Yellow leaves also? Seeing the yellow leaves, and the curling, best guess is overwatering. Low humidity also causes leaf curling.

### KJM commented on 2025-04-21

Curling leaves can be caused by a lot of things. Over-watering, underwatering, unappealing temperatures, humidity issues it's a basic defense mechanism of the plant.

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