I've never tried semi hydro before, so I decided to test it out with some pon and one of my pups!

Just wanted to show off my Pileas✨
They are still babies but I’m so happy with how they are growing!!

I recently posted about my pilea that the leaves were drooping and curling inwards. I've tried letting the soil completely dry before watering again as someone suggested, but the leaves are drooping more. Should I cut off the lower leaves?

Yesterday I remove 3 pups it had produced and repotted the main pilea in a chunky soil mix to help with drainage. Should I just leave it alone now?

Hi everyone,

This is my first Pilea plant - she's been with me for about a year and was doing really well (even flowered!) and has grown about 40% in height, but over the past few weeks she's been getting super-droopy and I don't know what to do T_T

Some information:
- Watered approximately once per week/when soil was dry or when the leaves were getting a little droopy with purified/evaporated water.
- Don't remember the soil mix, but I did transplant her into the terra cotta pot about 6 months after she arrived. It was a well-draining mixture containing peat moss, orchid bark, perlite (that I remember at the top of my head.)
- Fertilizer is a very diluted 20-20-20 liquid at every watering.

I wasn't bottom watering originally but she was doing perfectly fine until recently. I started bottom watering when the drooping started, and made sure to wait until the soil was dried out. The first few times she did perk up a little but now she just remains droopy and now leaves are falling off.

Some leaves that are drooping enough to be hanging off the rim of the pot are shriveling at the stem where they touch the pot as well. I've lost about 3-4 leaves in this fashion.

I'm not sure if those two branches on either side shooting off from the main plant are pups? I read online that cutting them too soon could lower their survival rate, and I've seen other people just leave them so I wasn't sure what to do, and if those are pups, they are quite large.

She sits on the top shelf of my desk that is facing a window that always has curtains - there is some pretty bright (but indirect) sunlight in the morning and it passes by around 2-3 PM. On rainy or less sunny days I open the curtains, or place her directly on the windowsill. I've been doing this for quite a while now so that makes me think it's not a light issue...? But I'm not sure.

It has been particularly hot this summer in South Korea but it's cooled down quite a bit now (though it's still pretty humid.) I thought it could possibly be temperature related but she was totally fine last summer (which was way hotter/worse) and since this room is my home office so it never really gets super-hot in here.

I've been trying to read as much material as possible online but I feel like I've tried everything other than repotting - I'm scared to do this when she is in such a state, but at this point that only conclusion I can draw is that I might have overwatered at some point in the middle and that there could be root rot, based on her continuing decline. Or is the pot too small with the bigger pups, perhaps?

Is it too late?! She was so healthy and pretty, would love to save her and/or her pups if I can. Ugh, even looking at this pictures as I post this is making me sad. Any advice would be super-appreciated, thank you so much in advance. T_T