I got a beautiful adansonii tricolour about a year ago now (and paid through the nose for it) but my ex who I was living with at the time just didn’t open the curtains while I was away for a week or two, and she has simply not bounced back since. Leaves rotted, and the variegation just completely halted. I’ve tried propagations, trimming, focussing grow lights and giving it as much light & fertiliser as possible (without over feeding) and nothing is working. Do I just accept I now have a VERY expensive plain adansonii? We’re down to the final nodes/auxiliary buds but idk if it’s even worth trying anymore. She was a whole, massive plant before and she’s barely a shell of herself now and I’m so, so sad.
by Mental_Balance1367
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IDK if it will stay reverted forever.
However I bought a reverted strawberry shake with boring plain leaves and it un-reverted after months of boring growth. I never expected it to, but it was a pleasant surprise anyway. It is still growing gorgeous leaves now.
Honestly, try growing it a few leaves and maybe chop n prop after that? Odds are odd but ya never know- chopping after reverting has worked at least once for me
A week or two, even in complete darkness, should not cause any significant harm to your plant. If you have crappy substrate that doesn’t drain well, I can see this *maybe* leading to some rot if heat from the window usually helps dry it out faster, but that would start at the base of the stem and move upward; you wouldn’t see the stem totally normal with leaves rotting.
But the way the newest leaf is small, mutated, and has that brown area makes me think you are dealing with pests. I am far from an expert in this area but this + some other things you have described make me think you might have a sapsucker on your hands (thrips, scale, mealies, etc). These bugs all… well, suck the sap out of the leaves, which will eventually cause the leaves to die off as they get emptied of all their juices, and they will frequently cause damage to new growth as described. Thrips and scale are both nearly invisible to the naked eye through most of their lifecycle so just because you don’t see bugs running around doesn’t mean they aren’t there (but also, I can’t tell if your plant is dusty or if that’s evidence of an infestation).
Not to breg but i already killed mine like 4 times. Always comes back. But sadly reverted too i guess. Hopefully it comes back with a lot of light.
You have to look at the stem, if there’s any color left there then there’s hope.