Why do plants look droopy and what can I do to get them back?

Plants can be droopy for various reasons

Do you have decaying or sad plants? It’s a symptom that there’s something they don’t quite like or that they don’t feel right about. Some changes may need to be made to make them beautiful again, but what is clear is that if we do nothing, their health will gradually deteriorate.

Therefore, the sooner we detect the problem, the sooner we can recover from it. So we will see why plants look droopy and how we should treat them to see them again.

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What is a drooping or sad plant?

It is important to know how to identify a plant that is declining, a plant that is living very badly and that is sick, because the measures that will be taken are different, because the problems are not of the same seriousness.

For it, a plant that simply looks sad is the one that will keep the leaves of their healthy natural color (usually green), but perhaps a little flabby; that is, it can give the impression that the stems that connect them to the rest of the plant have lost their strength and that, for this reason, they seem “hanging”. In somewhat extreme cases, the leaves may also bend in an attempt to avoid losing too much water.

Now well, when we talk about a plant that dries out, we mean a plant that is going through a very bad patch due, for example, to excessive watering, too compact soil, an overdose of manure or fertilizer, among others. In these cases we will see other symptoms, such as brown spots on the leaves, parasites, fungi, necrosis of one or more parts of the plant, abortion of flowers, etc.

In this article we will focus on fallen plantsbut on the web you will also find information on how to recover a sick plant.

Why is it like this and how to get it back?

Plant that looks rotten may have healthy leaves

There are several reasons why a plant may look rotten. And so, depending on where your discomfort is coming from, we will have to do one thing or another. For instance:

need water

This is one of the most common causes. A thirsty plant usually looks like this, with dead leaves. These, as we have already said, they will look completely green (except in some cases where the margins are already beginning to yellow and/or brown). In addition to this, touching the ground we will notice that it is dry, and if we plant it in a pot, when we pick it up we will immediately realize that it weighs little.

What to do? Well, very simple: water. If it is in a pot, we recommend that you immerse it in a container with water for about 30 minutes so that it can rehydrate much faster and better.

It’s been or it’s cold

When we have plants, it is very important that we know if they are cold resistant or not, especially if our intention is to grow them outdoors. And it is that sometimes it can happen that some, or some, are kept outside during the fall for example, and that one day the temperature drops too much and it breaks down.

If this happens, your leaves will look seemingly healthy, but rotten. Therefore, we will have to act quickly to prevent them from dying. And that’s why, what we will do is put them in the house if they are tropical plants, or protect them with an anti-frost cloth like this one if it only needs a little protection (i.e. if it resists the cold well, but is still young and/or recently acquired).

It burns (by the sun)

Sun or direct light can damage plants

Have you ever put a plant in the sun and found it rotting soon after? It’s normal. He thinks that, if it has never touched it before, or if it has been sheltered for a long time, its leaves are not prepared to receive the direct impact of the royal star; and then of course, if he touches it, even for a moment, it will take damage.

To prevent it from getting damaged, what you have to do is put it indoors or away from windows (that is, it should not be placed next to the glass, but rather a little apart), or in the shade in case we are interested in keeping it overseas.

The pot has become small

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transplant plants

Sometimes there is no clear reason why our plant looks rotten because the leaves look good; maybe a little low, but nothing that makes us suspect something is wrong. In such cases, you will have to consider if the pot is the right size, especially if you find that it has barely grown for a while, and/or that the new leaves are getting smaller and smaller.

It is very, very important not to forget to transplant the plants each time the roots come out of the drainage holes, as well as if they have been there for more than three years; Otherwise, they could get sick and even die.

It is an indoor plant that is exposed to drafts

The plants we have inside the house have particularly bad weather when there are drafts (fan, air conditioning, etc.), because being native to tropical rainforests, this air makes the environment very dry and so the roots have to work faster and faster to keep the leaves hydrated, which they can’t quite achieve.

Therefore, in addition to keeping them in rooms without drafts, we will have to see if the relative humidity that we have inside is very low (lower than 50%), in which case we will start watering the plants with water daily, or if it is high.

With these tips, we hope your plants will stop drooping.

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