Darryl

Thanks!  Here’s my assessment and recommendations:

• Waiting until the soil is about halfway dry is not the right strategy for watering a hibiscus – it should be watered when the soil is just slightly dry.  You should be aiming to keep the soil evenly moist.  That stem might be permanently wilted and may not recover.
• ***MORE IMPORTANTLY*** Light – during the growing season, hibiscus are typically grown outdoors in ‘Full Sun’ (6 or more hours of direct sun) to ‘Part Sun’ (4-6 hours of direct sun).  Consider this: ‘Shade’ is defined as outdoors where there is less than 4 hours of direct sun – the interior of your bathroom, providing 2 hours of partially filtered sun has a lot less light than ‘Shade’ outdoors.  To put it bluntly, if you want your hibiscus to grow well over the summer, put it outside.  If you want to watch it die slowly, then keep it indoors.  Hibiscus is only kept indoors during winter months in a dormant state so it can be grown outdoors the following spring – it won’t grow indoors year-round unless you have exceptionally large windows, a solarium, or a greenhouse.

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