How to Revive a Plant
If your plant is looking a little bent out of shape and sad, don’t turn sad yourself. There are still some ways that you can do to revive your plant back to its formerly robust state.
Pot-Bound Plants
If your plant is pot-bound, it means that the pot it’s currently inhabiting has become constricting. The roots of the plant become one big tight ball, preventing water and nutrients from penetrating into the roots, leading the plant to wilt and even die. The solution to pot-bound plants is to re-pot them into only a slightly bigger and more accommodating pot containers.
Line the bigger pot’s bottom with pot shards to prevent soil and roots from draining the drain hole at the bottom.
Fill up 1/3 of the new pot with sterilized potting soil.
Put in the plant in the new pot and fill the rest of the pot up until it’s even with the plant. Pack it lightly.
Continue caring the plant as you should. Give it enough sunlight as you should and water it adequately. Refrain from putting fertilizer in its first year in the pot.
Wilted Potted Plants
If you feel that a too-small potted plant is not the problem, you can revive your potted plant using this technique.
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Find a bucket deep enough to accommodate the pot fully. Fill it halfway with water.
Plunge the pot into the bucket, until the whole pot is fully submerged.
Keep the pot in the bucket until bubbles stop coming up to the surface. When the bubbles stop surfacing, this means the soil is now completely soaked.
Keep the pot and the plant submerged for another 30 minutes after the bubbles stop surfacing.
Pull out the pot and the plant, and allow it to drain completely.
Get a large plastic bag and put the plant and pot in it and close the plastic tightly. The goal is to provide humidity to the plant, encouraging the roots to stop being stagnant. Keep the bagged plant in a shady area.
Observe the plant until you notice it reviving. Once it does, return the plant back to the shaded area.
Returning to Light
Indoor plants are the most likely to droop as we sometimes forget to provide them light. Yellow leaves are the indicator that a plant is not getting enough light. Put your wilting plants to half-shade (the recommended light exposure for indoor plants). Leave it there for a few days until the plant has completely revived.
Outdoor Plants
If you’re having problems with outdoor plants and not potted plants, remember that in principle, the root of the problems may be similar. Poorly-drained soil, poorly-aerated soil, lack of sunlight and inadequate pruning are all possible reasons for wilting plants. If you’ve checked all of these out and that’s not the problem, you may want to check if you have a fungus, pest or virus that’s laying waste to your plants.You might need professional help in order to contain that effectively.