Ouch, yes. You should dome of bag them after repotting to raise humidity but NOT water them very much. Damp only, not wet. And definitely not wicked right away. The entire plant will be in shock and the roots not very active in taking up water for a week or two.

If you want them to bloom and grow a lot better, I recommend repotting every 3 or 4 months and only /slightly/ bump up in pot size if needed. I wash /all/ of the old soil out of the roots carefully and thoroughly, using tepid water (not hot or cold). You may wish to take and put down some leaves for backup plants. Also removing some of the leaves means the shocked roots will have less plant to have to support immediately after transplanting.

If the roots go bad, you may also remove the roots entirely, save whatever you can of the crowns and repot them again into small pots. Damp soil only, not wet. Bag or dome them and the crowns can put out new roots pretty quickly. Then ease them slowly out of the bags or domes about two to three weeks later once new roots are going well. They can go right onto wicks again once you know the plant has recovered and is showing some new growth.

Is that helpful? Good luck with them. We don't want you to loose them.

This is very helpful!

I came home from work and saw the plants were even worse. I put them in bags now. I hope they will get better soon.

i think I have been too enthusiastic lately. I have a habit of over doing things. Now my plants suffer from my learning experience. I have been wicking, repotting too much. I better learn quickly cuz I have 18 plants coming in the next 2 days.

Is the soil wet when you bagged them? If it is, I would remove it and pot them back up in drier, only slightly damp soil. If they are bagged in wet soil it can make it worse. Also if they have a lot of leaves, removing some of them will help.

The soil is pretty wet. I will remove the bag then. Thank you!!

If you put some drier soil in there, then you may bag or dome. The concern is not wanting the roots to sit around in wet, heavy soil. An urgent concern if you don't want the roots to rot.

I will mix in some drier soil to make it barely damp tonight. Also take your advise to wash the roots.

Good luck with them. Hopefully they will bounce right back but it may take a week or two.

Julie, I did the same thing when I first started growing, but I learned to be very gentle with the roots when re-potting. I carefully remove some of the old mix and shake more off over a trash can, but try not to over handle the root ball. I re-pot in only a slightly larger pot.

Perle,

I learned my lesson, I hope. With future handling, I will try to leave more on the plants.

I wash the roots thoroughly myself have no trouble doing that. It's the doming that is key. Heck you can remove the roots entirely and they'll usually be fine - IF you dome and they aren't too wet.

I am going to put down a leave for my optimara Mysansatiom I got today, Then wash the roots and dome it. When will see.

I don't mean to sound correcting. You are doing fine, btw. But if you ever have trouble with something like root mealies, you may wash the roots very gently but thoroughly, or remove them, to save a plant. So you'll know it's OK and you'll know how to deal with that if it ever comes up. Hopefully it never will! ;)

Keep trying Julie! Lots of great advice! And good luck! Rosie

It looks like the sick plants are turning the corner after putting them under a dome. More leaves are firming up this morning when I checked.

I put all my newly arrived plants on wick last night. They look good this morning. This time I avoided disturbing the roots too much.

I read through 20 pages of this board in the last couple of days and learned a lot. Thank you very much!

Good for you Julie! Hope they all do well! Rosie

Sounds great, Julie.