Every day I find a few leaves on the ground. I read online that it might be root rot so I have been avoiding giving it water.

I might try to take it out of the pot and remove the bad roots. Does anyone have experience with removing bad roots?

  • FliegenpilzgünniEnglish
    4•29 days ago

    I don’t have background information, sorry.

    Did you repot it before?

    I think it might be one or a combination of the three:

    • Not enough light: some leafes look unusually light or dark, and the whole plant is a bit droopy. Is it somewhere near enough a window? Still, not my top guess.
    • Overfertilization: do you see the burnt tips, very dark-green leafes, and claw-shape? Especially the top leafes look like that.
    • Oxygen deficiency (root rot): most likely. You have to act FAST NOW. Just not watering won’t help. If you already see signs of it, and they are strong, the roots are already mush.

    I would recommend:

    • Check if the pot has drainage and the soil is light enough to store oxygen (e.g. by having perlite in it).
    • Put it out and let it drip off.
    • Don’t water too much in the winter. Keep the soil slightly moist and let the top layer dry off sometimes.
    • Consider semi-hydro with clayballs. You can’t overwater, and if you still get root rot, you can act WAY faster (flushing, drying, etc.).
    • And maybe add beneficial microbes, which will make the plant more resistant to root rot.

    I think you will definitely get my reason why semi-hydro is great. In a few days, you’ll get swarmed by fungus gnats. I haven’t seen one since I switched to LECA ;)