does the pot drain??

can you slide it out of the pot .. look at the roots.. take a few pix.. and slide it back in.. and then post the root pix ..

potting media does wear out.. and when it does.. it leads to watering issue ...

either your plant is root bound and needs repotting.. or the roots are rotting off due to no drain hole ...

it doesnt make sense that you knew how to water for 2 years.. AND THEN STARTED RELYING on a gizmo for water guidance ... it means something changed...

ken

If you are waiting until you see wilt to water, that's too long.

Individual blooms don't last forever. After a while, they turn brown and shrivel up.

It looks pretty good to me for a plant that has repeatedly wilted recently.

The pot does drain When i first got it the advice i read was wait for the leaves to droop slightly and then water, which is what I've been doing. That didnt seem to be great so i bought the meter that you poke into the soil and only watered when it went toward dry. Clearly I'm doing something wrong. i will slide it out of the pot and see what i see. This was a gift from a florist. i’ll post pictures later thank you

Don’t use a meter, they are woefully inaccurate. Use a pointed dowel stuck deep into the pot and water when it comes out dry. That, or learn how heavy a well watered pot weighs and water when it is much lighterr.

tj

It is in the pot it came in from the florist shop i don’t know what the potting mix is

Just noticed that new pics had been added to the original post. The roots have run out of room to keep growing.

Thank you for the detailed instructions. As i said in my earlier post this plant came to me as a gift and i have no idea what kind if soil it is growing in. i will have to buy new potting soil and new pots. What do you recommend i use?

thank you

"..... this plant came to me as a gift and i have no idea what kind if soil it is growing in. The organic fraction of grow media consists of millions of hydrocarbon chains. As the soil particles break down, some nutrients become soluble/ available in the soil solution from which the plant absorbs them. The carbon in the hydrocarbon chains gasses off in the form of CO2. This is why it seems like all of the grow medium has simply disappeared.

I will have to buy new potting soil and new pots. What do you recommend i use?" I always recommend that growers use a grow medium (s)he can water at will w/o needing to worry about the grow medium remaining saturated for extended periods, limiting root function and killing fine roots due to an inadequate oxygen supply. Unfortunately, that suggestion eliminates at least 3/4 of the commercially prepared products we find loosely gathered under the umbrella of "potting soils/ media". Since the size of the particles that make up a medium are the primary driver of water retention, in order to take advantage of the superior texture of soils with a high level of air porosity and sharp drainage, the medium will necessarily have a very large % of coarse particles >1/10".

I'm not suggesting you can't grow healthy plants in a medium based on all fine particles, but it will be more difficult and the margin for grower error diminishes inversely with the volume of excess water in a soil and the length of time the excess water hangs around.

If we want to take advantage of highly aerated media with sharp drainage, it's best to build/ buy a medium that does that passively. If that's not in the cards, there are always the tricks I mentioned upthread that will help to limit the amount of excess water a planting is capable of holding.

These are the 2 basic media I use for everything I grow.

Both are very forgiving and easy to grow in.

Al

so you’re saying a coarser texture is better can you give me a name of a brand or product?? as you can tell I’m not well versed in plant potting.