caapi looking a bit sad

[acacian]

hey all recently bought a caapi cutting ... it was rootbound in a smaller pot so I transplanted it to a larger pot with a mix of compost, perlite and some of the soil from dads veggie garden. I've been watering and misting it every day. Its fairly warm here still.. roughly 15-20 degrees each day.. though it will start getting cooler soon as we start heading into autumn... in winter it can get to -0 degrees Celsius so I will likely bring it inside

the leaves seem to be a bit droopy.. I suspect it may have something to do with it adapting to the new pot but I am not sure. Any input will be appreciated. I will get more details on the soil from dads garden soon..

here's some pics

 

[SnozzleBerry]

I've been watering and misting it every day.

Offhand, overwatering would be my guess. Granted, there's not much yellowing, but it shouldn't need every day watering.

 

[۩]

Could be over watering but keep in mind that the amazonian rainforest soil is always wet (for the most part). You never want to let a b. caapi get dry in a pot. It's less finicky in the ground. Could be the pH of your water and/or the soil itself. They like it on the acidic side around 5ish. More info here: Banisteriopsis Caapi - The Ethnobotanical Garden - Welcome to the DMT-Nexus

 

[SnozzleBerry]

Could be over watering but keep in mind that the amazonian rainforest soil is always wet (for the most part).

Amazonian rainforest soil is also of relatively "poor" quality and is incredibly fast draining, so the rootmass usually doesn't remain wet for extended periods of time, afaik. I was under the impression that the plant roots essentially experience a wet, dry, wet, dry, wet, dry, etc. type of cycle. This is how I've treated all of my amazonian plants (aside from one which died from overwatering/excessive nutes, I believe) and generally haven't had problems.

pH is definitely another potential culprit, good call house.

 

[acacian]

thanks for the replies guys... just wondering what you use to acidify your soil? We have some peat moss here which is apparently good, but there's a hardware store not far away so if there's anything more effective I'd rather grab that

 

[Vodsel]

Peat moss is better when you are mixing the soil... if you want to lower pH of the soil in a pot, you can use diluted citric acid, phosphoric acid or iron sulphate. Even ammonium sulphate as N source will slowly lower pH if you feed it to the plant.

 

[۩]

Makes sense just don't keep it dry too long. I use concentrated HCl when watering with a good meter. Humic acid every other watering for this plant. Peat moss has ideal electrical conductivity for a lot of plants too.