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Hi! Can anyone tell me if the problem is on overwatering or underwatering?

Underwatering= the leaf shrivels from lack of water.

Overwatering= the roots rot, the plant can no longer take up water and the leaf shrivels.

That means it is impossible to determine under or overwatering based on a picture of shriveled leafs. However, when overwatering is very severe, the plant starts to drop leafs that are still full with water. On the other hand, if underwatering is severe, it drops totally dried out leafs.

Are the tree loosing leafs and how do they look when dropped? How often and how much are you watering? How much rain does it got? What soil is it in?

There is no sign of leaf loss. I water it once every 7-10 days, depending on the weather. Now we have around 35 degrees Celsius, sometimes even 40 and the soil is something with coconut fiber, quite good for drainage.

Then I would not concider this a problem that needs to be adressed. P afra go a little bit shriveled in nature in summer as well.

Watering routine sounds good. At the moment I water my afras every 14th day. But temperature is just a bit over 20c here.

When that happen from underwater, you just water it and in one day they should be puffy again.
Too much foliage and little container can make it dry faster than expected.

If they don't get puffy again, than may be something else...

On their natural environment they'll stay months without water, and once it rains it needs to collect all the water it can, that's why they get puffier so fast.
In fact, some I have here, I water only once on winter, and that's enough for them, also i preffer to let they shrivel a bit to see that it needs water, than overwater and having a rot issue.

Excactly Albas! I have a few plants I never water. They are all succulents and they are bone dry in winter in 5c. In summer I move them outdoors and occational summer rain is more than enough. Some of them is P afra.

Thank you everybody! It seems it was a problem of underwatering. I watered them and they seem green and puffy again. I'll stick to what you said, and leave them dry out until the next watering.

In summer, water as soon as the soil goes dry. In winter, keep very cool and water very little, infrequently.

I water mine every day. It is in full sun, in an open substrate, loaded with fertilizer to get maximum growth in a year.
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