Hi everyone!
I had a beautiful Alocasia Frydek, but unfortunately it had a pretty bad accident: the pot fell over and my robot vacuum literally ripped the plant out of the pot. 😅
I tried to save it by keeping it in water for a few days, but the part of the rhizome that was submerged started to rot. So I cut away all the rotten tissue and managed to save about half of the rhizome.
After cutting, I applied cinnamon and let it dry/callous over for about 48 hours.
The problem is that the cut surface is very large. It started forming a callous, but the rhizome also began to wrinkle/shrivel a bit. Because of that, I decided to wrap it in moist sphagnum moss while keeping the cut surface exposed to air, then place it in a plastic cup covered with cling film to maintain humidity, opening it a couple of times a day for airflow.
What do you think?
Could this work? Has anyone had a similar experience? Do you think it still has a chance to survive, or would you recommend putting it directly into perlite/sphagnum instead?
I chose this setup because I was afraid the cut surface would rot again if it stayed in direct contact with wet substrate. Any advice would be greatly appreciated! 🙏🌱
by JonaPatt
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This is so clever to keep the prior rotted part from getting saturated. I don’t see a reason it wouldn’t work. Easy way to keep an eye on that wound. I’m very interested to hear how this goes and I might give it a try myself.