Beginner Gardening: Rooting Dracaeana marginata, 0 by weedsfree

weedsfree wrote:
I offered to help with my mother in law's plant a week ago. She said it wasn't looking so good but I thought that it was looking very good. She lost 2 others that were in the same pot during this passed summer. When I brought the plant home, I found that the plant had issues and one of the other plants that supposedly died was still there, but it was just roots and about and inch and a half of blackened stalk. The roots on both looked great. I thought to see if I could revive it but forgot to retrieve it when I dumped the soil. I did this because I was going to repot. They were in a large non draining ceramic glazed pot with rocks on the bottom. The one that was still alive turned out to be yellowing from the middle and the very center leaves were dead. I did some research and attributed the yellowing to lack of sufficient light. I repotted in a soilless well draining mix without perlite and placed it near an east window. It started to droop after a couple of days and I unburied the roots a little just now and found that they were turning a light brown color and getting thin. The plant is quite young and only about 5" tall. Can I re-root it and save it or is it a gonner? The plant has drooped considerably and though the leaves are hanging on it doesn't take much force to remove them. I removed a leaf to see if it was going to recover from this shock. MIL said that the leaves used to come off with a touch. I explained that the leaves do drop and they are not bush plants. The stalk does not feel soft at all either. Will it recover? Our house is about 5 degrees cooler than MIL's.