Beginner Gardening: help, 0 by marques1030

marques1030 wrote:
greetings!! i'm brand new to the site and i love it so far…

i’m hoping one of you plant gurus can help me resuscitate my ailing plant…

i have (or had) this GOREGOUS cane tree. It was given to me by the gardener at my job who was THROWING IT AWAY because its plastic pot was cracked and one of the stalks had a serious gangster lean. Figuring that it just needed a tiny bit of love, I took it home and stuck it in a corner of my apt, where there was very little light, watered it periodically and basically left it alone. it flourished.

a year and a half later, i bought a house, and KNEW that my cane plant was going to be a show-stopper. During the summer, I bought a new planter, some soil, and some fertilizer. I took the plant to my deck so it could get a lot of sunshine and left it there for about 2 weeks. during those two weeks, though, atlanta got more rain than the city had had all year and when it wasn't raining, the sun baked us. by the time i went to get my plant, it was a shriveling, browning mess. but i thought i could save it.

Since summer 2009, I have…

repotted it;
changed the soil twice (i even rinsed the roots, thinking it was suffering from root rot);
sprayed the leaves to get rid of the white bugs on it;
held off on the water;
and stuck it in a dark corner of my home.

the attached picture is what's left.

Last night, I moved it to an eastern-facing window (which is where it originally sat in the house.)

What else should I do? Is it too far gone to save?

Thanks in advance for the help!