I was doing some transplanting last night and one of my plants exhibited some real strange behavior about 20 minutes after transplanting took place. I am using a new type of soil, fox farm's Happy Frog organic mix, and the other 4 plants I transplanted last night didn't do anything unusual after the transplant, they all look happy and healthy in their new containers/soil. Basically the fan leaves on this particular plant started to point straight up, and I dont mean the tips I mean the entire leaf. Typically you'd think that is a great sign and the happy little girl is just reaching up for more light so she can fill up her new container with healthy growth, but the leaves were pointed up much further than I've ever seen a typical happy plant reach before. Also I was a little late transplanting and meant to do it a day or two earlier but didn't have time, so the soil got a little bit too dry during that time I believe, and the bottom most leaf set had started to yellow on me. After the transplant I figured that the leaves were still green enough that they'd bounce back and be a nice green color again within a day, but the transplant seems to have increased the rate of yellowing on that leaf set, and even a little bit of black/browning happening on the edges. Also the next set of fan leaves started to turn a faint shade of yellow and in general all the fan leaves looked a little sickly. However the new side shoot growth is still nice and dark green, very bushy and very healthy looking. Today the fan leaves have settled back down to a normal position, but the yellowing doesn't seem to have changed at all for better or worse. FYI the soil PH is 6.6-6.7, and used pure water during the transplanting so no extra nutes have been added yet.

I am including a couple pictures of this behavior and hopefully someone will be able to tell me that it is in fact happy/healthy reaching, and not that my plant is stretching upwards in an attempt to leap out of its new pot haha.

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Minnesnowta Reviewed by Minnesnowta on . Unusual behavior of plant after transplant, happy AND sad???? wtf I was doing some transplanting last night and one of my plants exhibited some real strange behavior about 20 minutes after transplanting took place. I am using a new type of soil, fox farm's Happy Frog organic mix, and the other 4 plants I transplanted last night didn't do anything unusual after the transplant, they all look happy and healthy in their new containers/soil. Basically the fan leaves on this particular plant started to point straight up, and I dont mean the tips I mean the entire Rating: 5