There's a particular kind of heartbreak reserved for plant parents who did everything right — followed the instructions, filled the reservoir on schedule, gave it a bright window — and still watched their plant slowly collapse. That's exactly what's unfolding in this week's r/plantclinic post from u/Valuable_Pineapple84, whose Pachira aquatica (Money Tree) is now showing guttation droplets on the undersides of leaves and increasingly limp foliage.
The Self-Watering Pot Trap: Why Your Money Tree Is Drowning on Autopilot
A Money Tree that seemed perfectly happy for months is now weeping guttation droplets and wilting — and the culprit is almost certainly the "easy" self-watering pot it came in. Here's what's really going on.
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