He was looking a little down in the dumps and I thought some new soil might help.
Shamrocks go dormant in the summer.

I tried to dig up the plant food spike, but it has already dissolved. You don't want to use fertilizer on an ailing plant, only healthy thriving ones. The shamrock plant is grown from a bulb, so, according to the Gardener's Rake, people sometimes think that it is dying when it really isn't. The reason I transplanted it was that since March it had grown to almost 3 times the size of the little pot it came in from the grocery store, and I was having to water it twice a day, because it wouldn't hold water.
Don't stress about it and don't worry if the foliage entirely disappears...and 4 days is not too long to leave them without being watered...they will be fine...in fact they probably won't be out of dormancy by the time you get back.I bought a shamrock plant 2 years ago. Talk about a fragile plant!

I drove cross country with him and within the 1st couple hours I thought I had lost him. Plan the perfect garden with our interactive tool →Oxalis triangularis, isolated image by Tamara Kulikova from How to Care for a Shamrock Plant. In fact there have been several times I thought I've lost him and he's come back so mostly I don't worry anymore.Having said that I just repotted him this morning. This rest period usually begins in the fall, according to Gerald Klingaman of the University of Arkansas Extension.Decrease the water you give to the plant. Place shards of a broken terra cotta pot or small pieces of gravel over the drainage holes of the new pots.Fill the new pots with potting soil that is well-drained. If you want to divide them, split them evenly into two clumps and leave each half clumped together. Should I pluck the entire shoot out of the soil, or just cut the stem close to the soil line? However, as an oxalis likes to be tight in the pot in order to flower, it is best to repot infrequently.Repot your shamrock plant when it is dormant. !Shamrocks are particularly sensitive to transplant shock. They are, what I would describe as, a "moody" plant. If you are replanting the entire plant, fill the pot with 2 inches of soil and set the plant on the soil. If the leaves are becoming dry and the stems are collapsing, the plant may be going dormant. In about three weeks, fertilize with the liquid flowering-houseplant fertilizer.Examine the leaves of your oxalis plant. I wouldn't worry about the flowering aspect...mine are always in flower, too...Ruby, congrats on the constant flowering..Do they also bloom in early, early spring, say end of Feb?Finding these comments many years later because I Googled "droopping Shamrock plant" looking for help with my little one! When the plant goes into ÂdormancyÂ, what should I do with the dead shoots and leaves? If your shamrocks seem to be outgrowing the pot they're in, simply graduate them up to the next sized pot as a colony.

I didn't know about the not transplanting while blooming thing, though. They don't, and use more water than almost any plant I know.Ruby, you're never supposed to repot when a plant is in flower/fruit.Anytime I have ever transplanted my Oxalis regnellii, they throw themselves into dormancy...nothing to worry about...they will come back and be better than ever.

The reason it won't receive sunlight while I'm gone is that I close all my blinds for privacy and to keep the heat out.

And anything in bloom should not be re-potted until after it's done flowering.What size pot was your shamrock in before? The good news is that you can care for your shamrock plant easily, and even if you believe it is dying, you can probably get it to come back.