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My philodendron gloriosum is drooping so I repotted it - need some advice please.
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My philodendron gloriosum is drooping so I repotted it – need some advice please.


I’ve had this Gloriosum for four years and am crushed – I had a campaign for work I was working on day and night and forgot to water it for a week 😭 leaves are drooping. I tried to repot it but feel like I’m doing something wrong, as it’s super unstable.

I currently have stems tied to a stake but most leaves don’t stand on their own anymore. I watered thoroughly a couple days ago and feel so guilty. what can I do?

by designismyburden

7 Comments

  1. youaremyclarity

    I just recently found out that gloriosum are crawling plants, not climbing plants! Mine was also sad and droopy so I switched it to a horizontal planter and it’s doing much better 😊 maybe try that if someone in here doesn’t have a better suggestion lol

  2. morgzen

    The roots I can see do look a bit dry rotted but I’m gonna assume there’s at least some healthy roots as the plant looks good otherwise. The plant is dropping right now because it was 1) poorly repotted and 2) hasn’t had time to acclimate to being repotted. It was probably droopy before because of lack of water then lack of time to absorb any of it before being repotted.

  3. hachiari

    Just take it out of the pot and put it in a bucket or jar of water for three days so it can rehydrate.

  4. Shes-Philly-Lilly

    When a plant is struggling and showing signs of stress, like dropping leaves, you do not want to stress it further by repotting it. Repotting always causes stress. No matter the plant, no matter the pot- when you take it from one home and put it into another, that causes trauma and stress.
    The only exception to that rule is when you have roots that are rotting. Other than that, do not repot a plant that is stressed out and struggling.

  5. IHaveWitchUndertones

    I have a summer glory (a crawling hybrid of gloriosum) so take my advice with that in mind, but I’m kinda surprised one week of no water did this. Is your home/area dry? The terracotta might also be wicking away too much moisture if so

    If the soil is dry rn, I’d give it a good soak to keep hydrating and try not to change anything else. Keeping it so the stem is along the top of the soil and maybe pinning it or tying it down to prevent tipping is really all you can do at this point.

  6. ES_Legman

    Gloriosum doesn’t do well in hot environments that get dry

    If RH falls below 40% consistently you need a humidifier, and a rectangular pot is better suited for them as they crawl.

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