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The dreaded Rot, is there anything here worth trying to save?

15 years ago

Ok so I started off with a small cutting with 3 leaves that were going to be branches, one of them didn't make it so i ended up with a Frangipani with 2 little branches, then my green house blew over and one of the branch type things broke off, so i planted it in a mixture of pearlite and compost (mainly perlite) and put it on a radiator. all was going well, it was looking really good, better than the original plant!! It had roots and everything!! then disaster struck and it got knocked over again, don't know if it was the wind, the dog or the baby, either way, i put it back in the pot it was in which was a cut off 500ml plastic drinks bottle (so i could see the roots grow), it might have been a bit small but it was doing ok, then it started going soggy, I repotted it and gave it another week on the radiator but it was just getting worse. I read on here that if you stick a pin in it and it oozes white stuff then you're ok, it only started oozing white stuff when i got near the top, so i decided enough is enough and I took a knife to it, (I would have had less trouble deliberately cutting off one of my own fingers!!!, I don't know why but i have a strong emotional connection with my plummies and this is my first casualty!) So now I'm left with quite a short bit that still looks like it's got some rot in it, (please let it be rot, else I've cut up a perfectly good cutting!) shall i cut it some more and try again? or is it too short to do anything now? is there any hope? or am I trying in vain? I'll try and put in some pics so you can see what I'm talking about.

Big thanks in advance

PS, does anyone know of a good councellor?

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kbauman
15 years ago
Hi,
Can't see your pictures..sorry. Some one will come in soon and help.

Karen B
Dave in NoVA • N. Virginia • zone 7A
15 years ago
You need to put the code:

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around the URLs you listed. Except use the L-shaped brackets instead of parentheses ( ). Then your pictures will show up. Otherwise we have to copy/paste your URLs into the address window of our browsers. Too much work!

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tdogdad
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gabio79
Original Author
15 years ago
Oh NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! that was my worse fear that I'd cut up a perfectly good plant, but yeah it was squishy, I did the pin thing and stuck it in at 1 inch intervals, it only ran white near the top which has now been dunked in rooting hormone and is in a pearlite mix on top of a radiator. When i stuck the pin in, I thought it was squishy in the middle cause there was some resistence from the outside but felt really soft in the middle. Thanks ever so much for sorting my pics out dave. Anything else I can do to save it? or am I a frangipani murderer?

Thanks

Becky
gabio79
Original Author
15 years ago
I'm totally kicking myself about this now, what other signs would there have been if it was rot? does it always start from the tip? I thought it was rotting from the root up cause the tip was still a bit firm so by cutting it was trying to save that. I'm so annoyed with myself!!!

Becky
tdogdad
15 years ago
It is hard to tell from the pictures. Root rot is usually very squishy at the ground level like it was full of jello. Some varieties have a little bit of flex in the outer layer but are firm in the center. I cannot really say this was the case for this plant. Did you cut off all the leaves and let the bottom harden for 4-7 days before replanting? Good luck. Bill
gabio79
Original Author
15 years ago
Hi Bill, no I didn't but I will do now.
Thank you for all your help, you're all very kind, if any one wants any beautician advice, I'm your girl!! but I'll leave the plant stuff to the experts!
Thanks
Becky

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