Question
Hello!  Thank you for providing such great service.  My husband and I have had a Serissa Japonica for several weeks now.  We brought her home from the store in a black plastic nursery pot.  She lives on a windowsill where she gets direct light for a couple of hours a day then gets indirect light and shade for the rest.  I noticed she was in need of repotting, much of her roots were in direct contact with the black plastic, I feared they would get scorched by the heat the plastic attracted.  So I read and read, held my breath and carefully trimmed her roots and repotted her in a training pot.  It has been a week, her leaves have lost their shine, they are not as fleshy as they felt before, and some have fallen off.  She has, however kept her fruit, they are ripening faster than usual.  Do we have cause to worry? Thank you, Ann & Kevin

Answer
Serissas are funny plants.  Make sure you give it a chance to almost get dry before you water, not totally dry but almost.  It needs more light.  You would have been better to have repotted it in mid-sumer but you can't undo what you have done, you can only deal with the consequences.  Do not fertilize!!!!!Very important!!!!! You might find it helpful to remove the fruit.  They also do not like being moved a lot.  Just give it time.  If it continues its decline put it in a plastic bag as kind of a mini-greenhouse for a while.

Vance Wood.