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Old 03-03-2015, 01:07 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Tough Guy no. 1265 Tough Guy no. 1265 is offline
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Default Houseplant shrivelling

On Tue, 03 Mar 2015 08:23:00 -0000, Chris Hogg wrote:

On Tue, 3 Mar 2015 06:53:49 -0000, "Bob Hobden"
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"Tough Guy no. 1265" wrote

I have a houseplant which I moved into a larger pot (as it was consuming
the water very rapidly, it had outgrown the small pot). As soon as I did
this, the leaves have shrivelled up. AFAIK I'm not over or under watering
it, and there are no signs of beasties. What's wrong with it?


It would be helpful if we knew what the plant was, how long you have had it
and it's size.


and a picture.


I don't know what it is, it was given to me a year ago, and has flourished in all that time and grown larger. Only changing pot made it do this.
Here's a pictu http://petersphotos.com/temp/Shrivelled.jpg
The leaves used to be flat. I was giving all my houseplants regular doses of Baby Bio fertiliser to get them going, and stopped a couple of months ago when they all looked very healthy and the bottle ran out, so I didn't bother buying another one, but the shrivelling was after that, when I changed the pot to a larger one.

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