Repeated stem rot, indoors, no wet conditions - help appreciated
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Help AV stem rot very close to lrg crown
Comments (4)Hi Krystal, The link below shows you how to save the plant. The difference is instead of a long neck you have rot up to a certain place. Decapitate above the rot, even if you have to take off leaves to find where the stem doesn't have rot. In fact, since the plant won't have roots it's a good idea to remove some leaves anyway. You can try starting them so you'll have babies just in case the plant dies. The stalk in the pot should be thrown away. Rot is a common result of mix staying too wet too long. There is a lot of good info on this forum about watering and making potting mixes that are forgiving of overwatering. Here are instructions on posting pictures: http://faq.gardenweb.com/faq/lists/orchids/2004100023030734.html In a nutshell, either upload photos to a server such as Photobucket, then put a link to the picture in the message body, OR go the gallery section and directly upload a picture there then reference the picture in this message section. Good luck - hope you save the plant. Here is a link that might be useful: Restarting an African Violet...See MoreIndoor Potted Azaela: Root Rot or Too Dry? (Or something else?)
Comments (12)Yes, the new soil in the self-watering pot will absorb the water (capillary action) and the roots of the little 4" pot plant will seek the moisture. Think of dipping the edge of a dry sponge slowly into a bowl of water  same thing. It wicks up. No offense, but you may be mothering the little guy too much. Stick him into a new self-watering pot, mine is an 8" diameter off the rack plastic job, put enough soil on the bottom of the pot to bring your azaleaÂs crown up to the just below the rim of the pot and then encircle him with more new dirt. Pat him into place, fill the reservoir with water, put the pot near some indirect light, not direct hotter than blazes western sun, and see what happens. Bottom line with any plant, if itÂs meant to live in your house, it will. If he conks out, at least you have a self-watering pot for the next attempt. My indoor azalea just happens to be happy, but I canÂt grow cyclamen  never could. You just do the best you can. Oh, btw, I do not put my indoor azalea outside, and yes, those little leaves would absolutely get fried. An open window for air circulation on a nice day, sure  circulating air helps to keep spider mites away. A day at the beach for the little fella? Nooo. All it wants is some light  direct sun is unnecessary. YouÂre little fellow is already feeling poorly, any extreme in light, temperature, feeding, etc., would probably push him into the next time zone. WonÂt hurt to let him try to recover in moist soil with a steady reservoir of water in regular household temperatures. Any more than that, and youÂd likely be in overkill territory. Give him a month or so with just constant moisture (not wet) and see if new life springs forth. Never know, he might make it! Kindly, Jane P.S. Stop misting. Every 6 months or so, just give him a quick shower to dust him off....See MoreMy Aloe Plant is sick from overwatering rot, Help Please!
Comments (9)I'm just piggybacking on this one if you don't mind. I have a sick aloe vera, too. I wonder if it got too wet or too cool (or both). It's losing its color and getting limp. It was a baby off of my mom's humongous one that's now gone. My sister's is doing great. I saw some advice about checking the roots to see if they were OK (like nueva gardener did above) and haven't done that yet. I wanted to have the soil on hand first (cactus or African Violet soil was recommended -- it's been in sand for decades and that's what it's still in). Anyway -- my real question was with rooting in the perlite. Do you wet IT when you first start out? Thanks! Flo :-)...See MoreDear Crassula Rooting Experts (root condition diagnosis required)!
Comments (18)Aside from the " theory" which also fails as often as it works I've attepted to re- root a rootless jade VIA root rot in brighter sun little/ no watering with no sucsess. You have better chances as mentioned from greenman all it really needs for root is brightness and warmth. Understand the full sun brightness is indeed bright ( Re your posted pics) but it's brightness is alot closer to heat than it is to warmth. A stressd plant such as yours should be kept cooler Here I use 70 F as an avg high with cooler inside brightness during the heat of the day with better sucesses than outside. Yours is dimishing it's stored water fatser in the warmer direct sunlight brightness . Cooler brightness with less direct warmer full sun would help it's stored moisture be reserved longer increasing root re-establishing possibilaties to be better. Granted it may have to loose a growing season ( or two) Better doesn't mean faster cause the other theory is if anything can go wrong it will and when it does go wrong it continues to go wrong faster than we can win the fix faster race. Slow it down so when things do go wrong at least it takes longer for it to go wrong allowing more time to fix it slower....See Moreeeyore94sooregon
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