Indoor begonia leaves curling (PHOTO)

[pincushion5]

My indoor begonia lives in the conservatory, but I realised this week it was probably too cold for it given the snow outside. When I went to rescue it, the leaves were curling. I brought it inside to a relatively cool room, as I've read big changes in temperature make the curling worse, but the leaves seem worse now!

What should I do? Leave it where it is in the cool (indoor) room? Put it back in the conservatory? Help! It was such a majestic plant before this.

Bump!

One more bump!

I’m useless at house plants but I have a memory of someone cutting them back really hard so they come again in the spring

Thank you! And is that indoor or outdoor begonia?

Indoor

OP can I start this by saying I know nothing about indoor begonias (and I don't particularly like the outdoor.ones) but I felt a little sorry for your plant. You've probably done your own googling and may have seen the RHS advice but jic

www.rhs.org.uk/plants/begonias/houseplants

The minimum temperature seems quite high, if your plant was chilled for a long time I'd think it would loose much, or all, of its top growth. So, the pp advice of a hard prune is probably sound. I hope there's still life below the soil to bring it back. Fingers crossed for a Christmas miracle.

I'd leave it where it is now, and keep your fingers crossed.

Thanks all 😞 I've done a hard prune and am waiting for my Christmas miracle.