Did you do a full repot or just up-potted it?

After a month if it is still green and not limp, it is probably alive. Just wait.

Most plants show new growth near the top. Some will start producing suckers at the bottom. I presume Grand Duke is a jasmine. They root fairly easily. So you can also take cuttings and try to propagate them.

Taking the plant out again will just make the situation worse. Let it be. You can increase the humidity by creating a dome. That often helps. The target is to raise the humidity to say 70-80%. Leave some holes so that it is not 100% humidity. Otherwise fungus/mold will become an issue.

It was almost a re-pot, but not quite. I got rid of all the old soil but I did not trim any roots. I did the re-pot now, rather than in the spring, because I was afraid the plant was having trouble with the soil it's been in forever, and so root trimming just seemed risky on top of that.

Unfortunately I didn't take pictures of the roots, and I don't think there were as many as I would have liked to see... but it didn't look hopeless either. (But I am new at looking at roots... learning to look at them is a big step for me. Why I was always so worried about it, I don't know. Also, I can't lift the pot, I have to tip it over. So that's probably part of why I didn't look before.)

Thank you for the kind words!

I know I can't really do anything but wait ... I was just hoping there would be a way to tell, one way or the other.

I have one cutting that maaaaaaaaay make it. Otherwise, this plant is pretty easy to find around here. I just want to keep it alive for sentimental reasons, really. I am tired of killing off plants! It's so sad.

You are in zone 10 with a longer growing season and so you should be OK. Can you post a pic of the current state of the plant? What kind of soil mix did you use?

Keep it in a brightly lit area out direct sunlight. May be just a couple of hours of morning sunlight will do good. Plants respond better to morning sunlight. Also a weak fertilizer solution (quarter strength) every week will also be good.

Ah, my camera card is full (long dumb story)... but I can tell you, it's lost a lot of leaves. But not *all* of them. If I can I will post a photo maybe later this week, but I'm not sure it would tell you much, really.

It's basically a plant that was somewhat large and sprawly/gawky (they grow that way), which now has only a few branches with any leaves left. There are a few little sprouting new bits, which have been getting longer over the last few weeks... and maybe *that* means it is alive.

However, I feel as if that is not real proof... maybe the plant could still be dying and that is part of the process. Certainly, it isn't pushing out happy, lush greenery... more like, little sprouts it already had are sort of limping along.

Anyhow, thanks for the moral support!

It's a bit hard to tell, but many of the leaves are on the plant next door!

Anyhow, you can see it used to be a pretty happy plant, earlier this year. It still has a few leaves on it, and I've been trying to baby it, making sure it doesn't dry out and so forth.

I'm worried though because it's been about a month and this is usually a plant that *loves* heat... and, I see nothing happening at all. If anything, just a few leaves drying out this week bc it's been brutally hot, even though I water daily when it's like that.

Well, anyhow, I still have my fingers crossed. Thanks for the moral support. I am still going to prune back the dead bits I think, just because it will look nicer, and who knows, maybe I will be able to tell it's still alive. Maybe I will get lucky.

Oh btw, I think I forgot to answer... but I put it in a bark mix, as close to 5-1-1 as I could get, though I panicked a bit and did not wait 2 weeks and forgot the lime. (Long boring story.)