Bougainvillea leaves are limp and drooping? Here is one trick to help it recover and bloom quickly
Your bougainvillea is blooming, and suddenly the leaves go soft and droopy. Handle it this way, and it will perk right back up!
The bougainvillea is not short of water, so why are the leaves still soft and drooping? I looked at your picture. In your case, it is clearly a lack of water. You scratched the surface of the potting soil with your finger, and a few cm below the surface there was still moisture, yet it still behaved this way. Actually, the reason is easy to understand.
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You are using this kind of root-control pot, also known as a Qingshan pot. The drainage holes at the bottom of this Qingshan pot are very large, and it dries out very fast. The soil surface and the lower layers dry out together. Because the environment where you keep it has good ventilation and it is grown outdoors, with the pot suspended, the soil at the bottom drainage holes will dry out completely, and it dries faster than the surface of the potting soil. It is not that it is not short of water; it is that you did not check whether the bottom of the pot is short of water. It is the roots' position that is short of water, so the roots cannot absorb water, which causes the leaves to go soft. Your current situation is very easy to solve.
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Just give it one thorough, deep watering directly, and within a few hours its leaves will clearly recover. When growing in a root-control pot, place it up high. In many cases the bottom dries out while the top has not, and this situation is very likely to happen. Of course, if after you directly soak the pot or water it thoroughly it still has wilted leaves and does not recover within a day, then the roots have rotted. But your condition is clearly not a case of root rot. When this happens, just water it thoroughly. Since you grow it outdoors with good ventilation, as long as the soil is loose and airy, root rot will not occur. Follow what Xiao Qi says and just water it thoroughly, and it should recover.
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