Help with droopy clematis

Well, as you say, it could be Clematis Wilt but it might also be something like grubs attacking the roots. I'm not sure where you live so I can't be all that definitive as to what the problem might be. Clematis Wilt usually enters through a cut or break in a stem and while the standard cure is supposedly to cut the stems to the ground I have found it not to work in all cases. I have a little over 90 Clematis of different varieties growing over Trellis Entrances, fences, Hedges and an Acer and so far, in the last ten or so years I have not encountered Clematis Wilt.

 

I agree although I would include some Tomato Feed to go with the water. Let us know how you get on.

 

Hi Monsclara, I hope you don't mind me saying that you're perhaps being a bit hasty in expecting a change in the Clematis so quickly. It might take more than a month for the plant to recover and make use of the nutrients and water.......not a few days. Clematis, depending on the variety, can be as tough as "old boots" or as sensitive to change as some of the more tender plants. You would have seen the vine weevils in the soil/compost when you dug up the Clematis and I'm taking it, since you haven't mentioned it, there you didn't find any sort of grubs or weevils??? I would advise that you keep up the watering and feeding [the latter on a weekly basis] and see what happens.