BodyBag746
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Hurt some roots. The dirt was too soft and I the bottom fell. Now after I transplanted the plant is droopin an the leaves are dark green idk what to do I need help!!!
Help my leafs are droopin after transplant.
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Micheal Sandford
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Make sure the earth or sand had proper soil and water.
Mrs. Weedstein
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I’ve had that happen but they drooped even worse and the whole plant started leaning over due to wilt. The upside was that it recovered, the downside was that it was stunted.
Luckily for you, my plant was a tiny seedling while yours is further along, which means it will probably be more resilient. Also, yours is sagging less than mine was. However, there’s not really anything you can do but wait and see what happens. The sooner it starts perking up, the better the prognosis.
BodyBag746
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How do I get it to stand back up? It was doing so well
BloomFielder
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make sure soil is completely dry before watering
BodyBag746
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Okay so wait like 3 days before watering ?
BloomFielder
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Yes sir, Once leaves perk up give an extra day or two, could be that the medium was to rich also so plant needs time to adjust. Last thing you want to do is overwater in a pot that size.
Mrs. Weedstein
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So are we operating on the assumption the OP has just overwatered the plant? Sounded from the original post like root damage was to blame.
Kalebaiden
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It was. It's transplant shock. Not a huge deal.
Ignore the wait to water comment and drench the pot one (1) time. This will settle the soil around the roots and lessen any shock the plant is experiencing. You can also use a sea/ocean based fertilizer at 1/4 strength to lessen shock effects.
BodyBag746
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I drenched tf outta it. Waited for run off and I never got any... I watered like 2 gallons into it cuz I wanted the runoff nothing. So I just let it sit and that’s how’s it’s been looking.
Kalebaiden
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Good enough. Just leave it alone for a week and it will be fine.
BodyBag746
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Thank you guys. You think the roots are suffocating from the transfer? Or wha? I wanna know cuz I gotta do it again soon
Mrs. Weedstein
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It sounded like you had some kind of mishap when taking it out of the original container. Not sure exactly what you mean by “the bottom fell,” but perhaps you can figure out a way to avoid that in the future.
BodyBag746
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So what I mean is instead of all the dirt coming out when I had taken the plant out there was an inch of dirt left and it all the good roots
Mrs. Weedstein
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Oh shit, yeah, that will for sure cause problems. Was it really rootbound? Also, what type of pot was it in?
BloomFielder
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You air pruned, wait for plant to recover. A little stress might turn it into a beastly plant.
BodyBag746
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Pretty sure it was the ceramic pot I was uaing
Ceramic pot
Mrs. Weedstein
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It’s gonna be tough to get plants out of those types of containers. I usually use flimsy plastic ones, where you just need to squeeze the sides gently and tap on the bottom, then the root mass eases out. Either that, or cloth pots — in that case, I just sort of peel them off the root mass. That does tear some small root hairs off that have grown into the cloth, but it doesn’t hurt the tap root.
BodyBag746
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Look at her getting back to normal 
