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Pilea peperomioides (also called Chinese money plant and Chinese missionary plant).It is dieing know.Last month when my gardener did the repotting adding some cow dung with bone meal .This plant suddenly started to loose its leaves one of them died and one is on the verge of dieing. It is in my balcony garden gets early morning sun and watered every day. Know only two leaves are left you can see in the pic attached.Pl comment.How can i save my palnt
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Jasmine
Was the cow dung well composted? If it wasn't then it can burn plants' roots, can be a problem even in the garden but in a container I imagine that it would be even worse. Even if it was well composted I wouldn't put stuff like manure into containers, it's going to change the way the potting mix drains and that can lead to problems with overwatering. I would repot it in some fresh potting mix and see if that helps it.
Also, what type of soil/potting mix are you using in that container? It almosts looks more like garden soil than like potting mix to me but I could be wrong. If it's garden soil then that could be the problem right there, it doesn't drain well enough to use in containers, you need to get yourself some nice soilless potting mix and repot it.
Watering every day also may be too much (especially if you've got garden soil instead of potting mix). I know you have hot temperatures in India, but you should still check and make sure it really needs water before you water it (stick your finger down an inch or two and see if it still feels wet, if it does then hold off on watering).
And lastly, it looks like that pot is way too big for the plant--this can increase the chances of overwatering the plant because there are not very many roots in there to take up all the water you're putting in, so then the water sits there and makes the roots rot (one of the first symptoms of overwatering is loss of leaves)
Could be any one of these things, or a combination, or something else entirely, but hopefully this will give you somewhere to start.
Depends on what you mean by soil--if you mean garden soil then no, you shouldn't use that at all. Garden soil is not good in containers and I don't think that just mixing sand with it will fix that (especially if your garden soil is mostly clay...clay + sand = cement). Do they sell soilless potting mixes in India? That's the best thing to use, here you can buy it in bags at nurseries and home centers, or there are recipes out there if you want to make your own.
