hello!! thank you for reading this my senecio angel wings plant is drooping very bad, and the bigger leaves at the bottom have started to turn brown.

i water it frequently, and it's in mostly full sun where it has been thriving the past month or so. i did just recently repot it, since the original pot from the store was far too small.

i also moved it from my windowsill to a different window which gets slightly less light. (i moved it back a couple days ago to see if that was the problem)

i really love this plant, and i'm stumped on why it's wilting so fast!! please help me!!!!

Your Senecio is a succulent. That means it should be kept in a small (nursery) pot with soil allowed to dry out halfway deep into the pot before watering. It also should be placed on your sunniest windowsill.

I know the pot looked small to you, but it should not have been repotted. The larger pot and additional soil mean it takes longer for the soil to dry out properly. That, plus your frequent watering have probably caused the roots to rot and they are no longer able to absorb water even though the water is plentiful.

Let the soil get very dry before you water again. If it does not perk up after the soil dries, then it is unlikely to recover, I am sorry to say.

WillC said:Your Senecio is a succulent. That means it should be kept in a small (nursery) pot with soil allowed to dry out halfway deep into the pot before watering. It also should be placed on your sunniest windowsill.

I know the pot looked small to you, but it should not have been repotted. The larger pot and additional soil mean it takes longer for the soil to dry out properly. That, plus your frequent watering have probably caused the roots to rot and they are no longer able to absorb water even though the water is plentiful.

Let the soil get very dry before you water again. If it does not perk up after the soil dries, then it is unlikely to recover, I am sorry to say.

oh!!!!! oh my gosh, i had no idea it was a succulent i'm so sorry, i understand now! i'll leave it alone for a while and put it in the sunniest spot available.

should i move it back to a smaller pot?

thank you so much for the help!!!

I agree with Will about this plant and would follow his advice.
I purchased this plant a month ago to plant in an outside container. Life happened and I haven't planted it yet. It is still in the 4-5 inch pot that it came in from the nursery. It is sitting outside on my front porch step where it's in the hot, Georgia sun for the first half of the day with 90+ degree temperatures. I haven't seen it wilt once, so far, even when neighboring plants are pouting. It gets watered when the soil looks/feels dry. Your plant looks etiolated (pale & stretched out looking for more light). As Will suggested, it may have root rot if it was overwatered and may not recover.

Danita said:I agree with Will about this plant and would follow his advice.
I purchased this plant a month ago to plant in an outside container. Life happened and I haven't planted it yet. It is still in the 4-5 inch pot that it came in from the nursery. It is sitting outside on my front porch step where it's in the hot, Georgia sun for the first half of the day with 90+ degree temperatures. I haven't seen it wilt once, so far, even when neighboring plants are pouting. It gets watered when the soil looks/feels dry. Your plant looks etiolated (pale & stretched out looking for more light). As Will suggested, it may have root rot if it was overwatered and may not recover.

thank you for the advice!!! i'm going to move it to the sunniest spot and take as many cuttings as i can. now that you mentioned root rot, i can see that it might be so

Does the soil feel really moist or soggy?
Root rot can start under those conditions if the soil doesn't ever have a chance to dry out.

If it's already been in the sunnier windowsill (where it was formally happier) for a few days, then try a windowsill that's brighter. If the roots are compromised by rot, the roots will have a harder time absorbing water from the soil. If transpiration increases suddenly and drastically due to a large increase in heat and light, the leaves may wilt even more since the roots can't absorb water efficiently. It's a bit of a balancing act at this point to get the soil just dry enough to stop the rot, while still preventing the top portion of the plant from desiccating. The roots and the base of the stem should be the priority, though, since leaves can regrow. Best wishes for you and your little .

Hi. This my beautiful angel wings. But it has all grown to one side and I don't know what to do with it. Any advice please x

Hi. This my beautiful angel wings. But it has all grown to one side and I don't know what to do with it. Any advice please x

Here is a headscratcher for anyone who is willing! I just recently bought the Angel Wings Senecio about a week ago. It was sitting in the bright sun and I have read up on how to take care of them. A couple days ago I repotted it and I have a well-draining soil in there (the miracle gro cactus and succulent soil). Even still I don't think Miracle Gro drains fast enough so I recently just bought some larger particled soil so hopefully it'll help drain it when I do water it. Anyway, it is left out in the bright sun as often as possible with no water since I haven't actually watered it until today. It's been slowly wilting since I got it ...and it looks like this. Any help from anyone would be fantastic. Because it's not dying from overwatering..obviously.

Did you water it after re-potting?

How much of the original soil did you remove when you repotted?

HELP

I got this beauty about 2 weeks ago. I repotted it (but the pot is still small) and put it in a spot where it gets a lot of light in the morning, but not the afternoon. After reading about the plant, I put it outside for full sun but within hours the whole plant completely drooped (it was very hot that day). Since putting it back inside, some of the leaves have sprung back up but a lot are still drooped. Should I cut those? Leave them be? the soil is draining well and I wait till it is dry to water it (it has only been watered once in my care).

PLEASE HELP

SaraAtlas said:

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My Angel wings is developing some strange markings on some of the leaves. Any idea was is causing this?

PLEASE HELP

SaraAtlas said:

HELP

My Angel wings is developing some strange markings on some of the leaves. Any idea was is causing this?

PLEASE HELP

Does anyone have some advice on transplanting my senecio angel wings from summer pots i to my house for the cold idaho winters? I would love to keep them.
Also, leaves are healthy but rolling under, which seems strange.

I have killed off more of these plants than I can recall, but this summer may see things on the upswing.
The first pic is a plant that I purchased back in March and planted in the driest, stoniest, sunniest bed that I have. I have watered it to get it established and that appears to have happened. It looks healthier than any of my past attempts at establishing this plant.
The second pic is some shoots that grew out of what remained of last year's senecio attempt, which was just a piece of root left in the ground.
I am hopeful that one of these may finally last!


This is a beautiful but apparently challenging plant to grow!

I bought my Angel Wings about 3 months ago, and it was doing well in in the sunny outside spot I chose. I repotted it in a ceramic pot just a little larger than the nursery pot. I live on the south Oregon coast, and we had a very late summer with lots of rain, but I made sure the pot had good drainage. I have had to remove a lot of discolored lower leaves, and I hope that's just a left over effect of the spring rains.