What can it be? (Syringa)

Transplanting / repotting lilacs properly - this is what you should pay attention to

Especially after Planting or transplanting lilac often has its leaves drooping. This is completely normal and nothing to worry about, the plant usually recovers after a few hours or days. The reason is often the stress that transplanting means for the plant. She is then in shock, from which she first has to recover. In addition, roots have most likely been injured, which is why you should use older lilacs before Transplanting always have to cut back by about a third. The following measures will also help so that your lilac does not look so sad after planting or transplanting:

• The planting hole or the pot should be big enough, about a third of the root ball.
• Choose a warm and dry day for planting.
• Damage as little roots as possible.
• Do not remove the stuck old soil before planting, but leave it at the roots.
• This makes it easier for the plant to take root in the new substrate.
• Potting soil should always be around the same temperature as the plant.
• For this reason, you should always warm up the substrate beforehand, especially when repotting in early spring.
• Even heavily fertilized plant substrates can cause drooping leaves.
• Water the lilac abundantly, as drooping leaves after planting are often caused by a lack of water.

The most common causes and their countermeasures

Other causes of hanging leaves include:

• Water shortage due to prolonged drought - Countermeasure: water
• Waterlogging caused by heavy soil, for example - Countermeasure: replant, improve the soil
• Root rot caused by Fungal infection such as Verticillium or Hallimasch - countermeasure: strong pruning, possibly transplanting with soil improvement, often clearing
• wrong location such as heavily clayey floor - Roots cannot spread and can no longer supply plants with water - Countermeasures: transplanting, soil improvement, drainage