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I think those are pretty drought tolerant.
Could it have gotten frost damage from being in cold weather?

The Only cold I have exposed it to is from the store to the car and car to home. Can't say what happened to it prior.

I've only had this for 2 weeks and expected after the watering, as stated at the begining of this thread, that it would have started to perk up. It has not perked up but rather continued to get worse.

While on holidays I got a couple of cuttings of these and they travelled around for a while in luggage. At home I potted them up and slowly the tops started to rot away. Eventually after about 4 - 5 weeks I pulled them out ready to compost them but they had new roots and were growing new shoots below the soil. It's now about 6 - 7 weeks since I first potted them up. One still has the new buds underground, the other has 2 buds on part of the cutting above ground. So I wouldn't give up on yours after only 2 weeks.

Thanks for the encouraging words tropicbreezent. I think that even if this plant defoilates, I will wait till late spring to do anything with it. Several years ago I had a parlor palm that lost all its fronds (spider mites and other issues). The trunk remained firm and was green at the top. I watered it very carefully and just waited all summer long. Lo and behold it put out new fronds after months of just that green top of the trunk. Some plants are very tough others die way too easily. Fred
Oh, I still have that palm

my D. fragans has been pushing out new growth for several weeks. It should recover if I don't over water it. I'll update the photo when it starts looking more lush, right now it is still trying
to get back to more than 2 leafs! But I am pleased it is finally making progress.

Yay, TY for the update!

Whenever it's practical for you, repotting your plant (into something besides potting soil) could help alleviate the concerns about killing it with water. More info about that in these:
http://forums2.gardenweb.com/discussions/1490818/good-growing-practices-an-overview-for
http://forums2.gardenweb.com/discussions/1497307/ukeeping-u-them-looking-good

Tiffany, what do you recommend: "pine bark, perlight and a small amount of potting soil"?
or is there some better recipe?

Here is what my back from the brink D. fragans looks like now!

That looks great! So cool to see a good update like this! Like all Dracaenas, this plant is sensitive to additives in tap water. Are you able to catch rain for it this summer? (Or use distilled?)

If you're looking for soil "recipes," I recommend the ones by Al (Tapla.) Do you need help finding one of those discussions?

and on June 7th

Good to see it's doing well! These guys are tough, they can literally come back from the dead, as long as the stem isn't rotted. :)

I was worried about it, a week after I got it home it really went south on me.
It was in trouble when I bought it, so much so that the checkout lady reduced
the price for me on the spot. I thought that as soon as it got some TLC it would
stabilize and perk up. Nooooo, it went down to 2 leaves! So I am very happy that the plant is now finally rebounding.

It looked great in June! How is she now?

About like it did in June. It reached a plateau and has not gone anywhere else.

How big is its pot?

I had a rooted agloanema that got stunted because I left it in the 3 inch pot too long!

6 inch plastic pot, same one it was in when I purchased it.

Do you have a bigger pot? Maybe now isn't the best time to go up a size...winter coming and all that.

I think the pot size is still OK, spring will be a different story. I did not fertilize it much this summer and maybe I should have put it outside after all, but to late now!

Lol, it can still get a few days/weeks of some nice shade outside lol.

Well, the forecast for next Friday is 63 and 41. But we are above average here for this time of year and the weatherman said that will continue through next month. But next week will be in the 60's and progressively colder.

Thank you for reminding me why I don't live further north. All the cold.

What is that swirly deremensis back there? That is a Dracaena, right and not....like......a Sans masquerading as a Dracaena?

I think it is "White Jewel" (note the S. Whitney in the background too)

Yeah that or a Jade Jewel. Absolutely beautiful plants =)

So, is that a Sans or Drac?

Dracaena deremensis "White Jewel" (bielo83 says Dracaena fragans Jade Jewel) note: Tiffany has pointed out that fragans is now called Deremensis ( if memory serves that is, LOL)

Whoa whoa.

Fragrans is the corn plant that's masquerading as a yucca.

Deremensis is where "Janet Craig" and "warnecki[1]" come from.....are they the same species? Really?

[1] Which I have and LOVE and that is why I needed to know what kind that one was in your picture up there.

Here are links to taxonomy sites:

http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-304662

http://eol.org/pages/1087638/names/synonyms

http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/details/species/id/19160942/synonym/19191735

http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?14633

So, they are all D. fragrans now, then?

Maybe they are cultivated to be slower growers, so they can't as readily be made into the cane types you see labeled as "corn plant." Most especially the compacta!

does anyone have a picture of their really old warnecki, Janet Craig, or Janet Craig compacta?

Tiffany did I get that backwards? Is it that Deremensis is now Fragans instead of the other way around???? (if so, sorry to have miss quoted you!)

I'm not in the realm of people who decide such things but 'they' say D. fragrans is the accepted, deremensis is synonym of that (same species, and its' many cultivars.)

My JCC isn't really old, had for about 5 yrs, in the middle of this pic. Note the new steps DH built yesterday. So excited! We're going to have a front porch in this lifetime!

Okay, I see its trunk below the foliage.

That's awesome about stairs! My husband has been particularly productive lately too.

Has anyone ever been so excited about a new toilet being installed?

Oh! Are there any plants that go dormant that could just live under your front porch for the winter? The extra protection and heat make a big difference! I guess I mostly mean succulents that can kind of handle that sort of treatment lol.

most of your stuff looks rather tender.

RIP Mr. Corn Plant.

My corn plant is still alive! I discovered the reason it had plateaued was it had meally bugs attacking the roots. I bare rooted it and sprayed the roots with insecticidal soap put it in a clean pot with clean dirt. We will see what happens. Ting Tar Tid!

Hahaha, I had a feeling you just couldn't throw it away like you said you did lol.

you dug it out of the garbage can, didn't you?

What's that triple "t" phrase you said, Fred?

Norwegian for things take time!

Hahaha