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It's day six of our advanced houseplant tips.

Here’s a scenario you might recognise...

You bought a beautiful alocasia in the summer. It threw out gorgeous leaves all through August and September. Then around November it started shedding. By February you were left with a sad-looking pot of soil and one floppy leaf, and you assumed you’d killed it.

You probably hadn’t.

Some plants go properly dormant. Alocasias are famous for it. Caladiums die back to bare soil. Oxalis disappear entirely. What looks like a dead plant is actually a plant doing exactly what it’s supposed to be doing — storing energy underground, waiting for the conditions to come back round.

The reason this matters is because of what people instinctively do when a plant slows down. They try to fix it. More water, more fertiliser, a brighter spot, a new pot. Almost every one of those things makes a dormant plant worse, because a resting plant doesn’t need any of them. The most common way to lose a dormant plant isn’t from neglect. It’s from kindness.

I cover which plants commonly go dormant indoors, how to tell dormancy apart from actual decline (the signs are subtle but they’re there), and how to adjust your watering, light, and fertilising when a plant is resting — all in the dormancy module inside Houseplant Mastery.

The short version: if a plant slows right down or drops a load of leaves at the wrong end of the year, before you panic, ask whether it might just be having a sleep. For some plants, it absolutely is.

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