Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Need help! newbie, 0 by plantladylin

plantladylin wrote:
Catz: Check out this picture of the vine I just cut off of my Hoya compacta. The vine was dying and the leaves drying and shriveling up along the stem ... I don't know what caused it, I need to look more closely at the top of the soil, it could be that some of the soil has washed away exposing roots which have dried out and died making the vine die as well. After I cut off this vine, I began cutting it into pieces and did find some that looks to still be viable so I've potted the pieces up to see if they will root. I find with the compacta being so thick, I have to lift the vines and really get underneath the leaves to make sure water gets down into the soil and through to the roots. My plants all stay outside on the deck so I use the garden hose for watering and this one may just have had water run off the vines instead of getting down into the soil.