Is it reviving ??

Hi every one,
3 weeks ago I decided to put a night queen plant in my office, I had planted a few of them in my old gardin which My ex wife and children are now enjoying, the lovely smell at night we get from this tree, made me wanting to put a new one in the office ,,,, any way,,, after one week in the shadow @ my reception, I realized, it is still losing its leaves, despite watering the plant daily, so I moved it to my study room, a more sunny room, only from 2 pm - 6 pm the sun is directly and rotating arround the plant, however the room always kept kool by air condition , 3 days ago, remaining skins of some tommatos,cucumber,green pepper and carrots are all put in the blender with some fresh water to make a soup for my plant, now I see it is may be going to revive after losing all the leaves. I would wellcome sharing your ideas, Jesus, I'm really trying hard to save this plant if you get my meaning.

You say it's losing it's leaves "despite watering daily"...I think it may be because you're watering daily. I have no idea what sort of plant a night queen is, but unless it's a bog plant I doubt it needs to be watered anywhere near that often. When you overwater, the leaves will often show symptoms such as yellowing or wilting, then eventually they fall off. The problem is when you continue watering too much for too long, the roots will begin to rot as well, so if this has been going on for a while then the roots may be in bad shape. You can try repotting in some fresh potting mix, get as much of the old potting mix off the roots as possible, and if you can give the roots a swish through some dilute hydrogen peroxide or chamomile tea, this will help kill any fungus that may be there. Then plant it up in the new potting mix. Watering with a bit of peroxide or with the chamomile tea will help too after you move the plant. Once you've got it settled in the new potting mix, the way to know whether to water or not is to stick your finger a few inches down in the pot, if it feels dry then it's time to water, but if it still feels pretty moist then hold off.

Hi etel, you said you used to grow this tree in your old garden, I think that is the clue, it is possible that this plant needs fresh air around it instead of constant air conditioning, this chills people so you can imagine what the plant feels like, also the air in your office will be dry and the leaves have just dried up and dropped off. I see from your picture that the plant is sitting in a saucer with a good amount of water in the saucer, this is bad for all plants unless as Ecrane said, they are equatic and need the roots in water, so between the dry atmophere and cold temp from the air conditioner, then way too much water, you have given this plant the very opposite to what it needs, try doing as Ecrane sugested and repot the plant into nice fresh compost, when you do this, examine the roots and cut off any that look like they are rotting, this will hopefuly prevent any rot spreading further up the root system, if you plan to keep the plant indoors, I would cut way back on your watering regime, about once a week will be enough, but only if it needs it, is there no chance you could place the plant back outside where it flourishes in a garden setting, even under your office window would be better than indoors where it just maybe un natural for this plant/tree. hope this helps a bit, good luck. WeeNel.

Good catch WeeNel, I hadn't even noticed the saucer with water. Definitely not good for the vast majority of plants! I think you're right, this is a combination of lots of things that are not ideal for the plant and at least a few of them will probably need to be fixed for the plant to be able to recover.

Let me start by thanking ecrane3 and WeeNel for their reply to my topic.
Today I include a new photo after one week, more leaves are forming, due to your contribution, I decided NOT to water my plant daily, however, I substitute this with SPRINKLING the stems to avoid rotting the root as you sugested, but cuz Iam very concerned for the plant I started sprinkling daily may be twice/ day sometimes.
As you can see in the new picture more buds are forming and buds already formed last week are increasing in length. Also I am trying to keep the sun directed for a longer time to dry the wet soil .
I also yesterday stired the soil about 5 inches deep from the surface so the bottom layer could be aired. Keeping my fingers crossed that these measures may improve the situation.

I think "being impatient person" , I want the plant to get back to normal by tomorrow !!! , Realy growing plants teachs you PATIENCE.

Transplanting a plant from outdoors to indoors will generally cause a shock to the plant's systems, so it'll drop leaves and look sickly for awhile, but with proper care it might come back.

I'm assuming this "Night Queen" is night blooming jasmine? If so, you might consider trying to get some cuttings from the remaining plants in your former garden (hopefully the divorce was not so acrimonious that this is impossible). Jasmine grows well from cuttings and there is the added advantage of not being such a shock to the plant when it's started this way and kept indoors as opposed to trying to move something from the garden to inside the house.

Hope this helps.

Sojourner

Hi ete, good going, you have really improved your plant, it looks like it wants to grow now, so well done, can I sugest that you prune all the top growth off down to where you see new shoots/leaves on each stem
as you are asking a lot from your plant to try fill these tall leafless stems with greenery, you want to encourage the plant to start make flower buds rather than waist energy trying to fill all the spindly branches with unwanted greenery, when you cut the stems further down, you are also encouraging the plant to throw out nice new shoots which will make your plant nice and bushy instead of tall and lanky, can you sit the plant onto a small stool upturned pot or something to lift it up from the floor as in this position it's top is rather close to a coppy machine and the new leaves will be getting dry heat blasted from the machine, up off the floor also meens it is out of drafts and will get a bit better light from the window, but dont bake it in sun at the window, give it a liquid feed every second week also, not too strong though, you've done a sterling job getting it this far, hope the next picture will be full flowers, Good luck. Weenel.

Yeah, each little root sucks up water for a certain leaf. It will get better after time it just needs some time to adjust. Nice tree. Hope it get's better. God Bless you and your tree.