Viewing post #1472777 by MariposaMaid

tcstoehr said:I'm seeing the outer/lower leaves dropping while the center leavers are held up high. I've seen this happen when a semp is introduced to more sunshine than it is used to. Sometimes after shipment in a box. In these situations the plant recovers just fine as it adjusts to the sunlight and regrows its roots, although the older/lower leaves may suffer badly. This may or may not apply to your situation.

Take a look at this guy. It was shipped to me from Washington where the weather there (and here) had been unusually cool and cloudy for a long time. They were put into a pitch dark box and unpacked three days later. Then they were planted in my garden just as a heat wave moved in. The lower leaves drooped down and the centers went vertical, like your pictures. You can see several leaves dried up completely while others remain half fried. I have every confidence that they will acclimate just fine.

This is what I started out with over 2 months ago. And since that time there have been few sunny dry days so I have schlepped them into sunshine for an hour or two and then back under my makeshift green house to keep them out of the rainy downpours, sometimes twice a day!
Until last week there just wasn't a stretch of sunny weather hereabouts. I thought that giving them a week of gradually more and more sun would be enough to acclimate them but I think you have nailed it with your example as I feel mine were too long in low light and then too quick in too much light plus high heat.