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Japanese money plant
kerry.panaggio
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Our Japanese money plant has started badly wilting in the last couple of days. She is getting enough water and she now lives by a window. I think she has rot in her body as we found one of her legs was hollow a few weeks ago. Is there anything I can do? Really don’t want to loose her as she was a wedding gift from my mother in law!!x
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I expect you're being too kind and have over watered it. It should be resting at this time of year. They only need teeny amounts in the dormant period over winter so let the pot dry out now and see if that helps. The compost should be free draining with added grit so, if it recovers, you could try improving the compost medium.
The best way to water is to dunk the plant pot in a bowl or bucket of water till no further bubble appear and then let it drain completely before putting it back in its cache-pot. These plants need good light, warmth and maybe a bit of feed for flowering house plants 2 or 3 times during the growing season.
i think you've over watered it was well, there may be no hope for the main plant, but you can snap the ends of the branches off and root them easily into well draining soil.
you can even snap off individual leaves and get them rooted
A few weeks before Christmas, we had a night of severe frost which seriously damaged my money plant that I had forgotten by a large jasmin. I took it in, cut small pieces of what was remaining and pushed them in to a pot of very sandy compost. To my amazement, they're ok. Some plants, fortunately, just don't want to die!
All the advice given above is good.
Plants wilt for two reasons .... underwatering and overwatering ... so if your plant is wilting change what you've been doing.
Hope it turns out well
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.