On Feb 11, 4:54*pm, (Patty Winter) wrote:
Last summer I bought a Monrovia shrimp plant (justicia brandegeana).
After a while, its leaves started curling. I found one discussion
of the problem online that said it could be a buildup of salts;
the plant was in a painted ceramic planter, so I took it out of
there, put it back in its original nursery container, and gave
it a few deep soakings over a period of weeks. No change. :-(

Here's a photo from someone on a hummingbird forum who had the
same problem:

http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n...07%20Hummers%2...

(I found some other photos of the leaves turning upwards, but
mine are curling under just like that one.)

The folks on that forum told her not to worry about it because
shrimp plants do that a lot, but it wasn't like that when I
bought it, so I don't think it's normal. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Patty

Patty,

I did a little research , mainly just images of the shrimp plant on
google, and found that most of the pictures (a good 90%) had the
curling leaves. I'm thinking maybe that's why it could have been
dubbed the shrimp plant, because of the way the pattern of the leaves
are which resembles a curling shrimp's tail......I could be wrong,
just a suggestion

Duane