Please help. I bought this Agavoides MeinKuan yesterday and it seemed perfectly healthy.
When I went to repot it today, there were no roots…just a black shrivelled stump. Which promptly fell out when I touched it. 🤦♀️
I saw a few baby roots (yellow arrow) so I cut back as much of the black stump as I could and I’m leaving it to callous.
Can this be saved? What is that black dot that the red arrow is pointing too? The rest of the stem seems healthy except for that.
I’d appreciate any advice. Thank you. 🙏
Intelligent-Law7290
I’d pull a layer of the leaves off and expose more of the stem. With a clean knife or scissors cut away a little of the stump at a time until it all looks healthy. Then leave it out of soil for 2 to 3 weeks. Brand new pink roots will grow. Trust the process. I know it sounds like a lot of time but it’s not really. It will consume some of the oldest leaves to survive for energy to grow the roots. Once it has roots plant it in a very small pot. Water it just round the soil at the stem of the plant when the oldest leaves feel squeezy and maybe wrinkly. It will be busy growing new roots to fill that pot. In another month or so it’ll be very happy. Up pot when that pot is full of roots.
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Please help. I bought this Agavoides MeinKuan yesterday and it seemed perfectly healthy.
When I went to repot it today, there were no roots…just a black shrivelled stump. Which promptly fell out when I touched it. 🤦♀️
I saw a few baby roots (yellow arrow) so I cut back as much of the black stump as I could and I’m leaving it to callous.
Can this be saved? What is that black dot that the red arrow is pointing too? The rest of the stem seems healthy except for that.
I’d appreciate any advice. Thank you. 🙏
I’d pull a layer of the leaves off and expose more of the stem. With a clean knife or scissors cut away a little of the stump at a time until it all looks healthy. Then leave it out of soil for 2 to 3 weeks. Brand new pink roots will grow. Trust the process. I know it sounds like a lot of time but it’s not really. It will consume some of the oldest leaves to survive for energy to grow the roots. Once it has roots plant it in a very small pot. Water it just round the soil at the stem of the plant when the oldest leaves feel squeezy and maybe wrinkly. It will be busy growing new roots to fill that pot. In another month or so it’ll be very happy. Up pot when that pot is full of roots.