Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Stem Burn on cutting... not getting any roots, 1 by LhasaLover

LhasaLover wrote:
I am in a similar boat as you Don. I saw the posts about stem burn in the "not growing roots thread" and knew that was what was happening to my cuttings. I had already pulled the pea gravel back from the cuttings because it seemed to be what was causing the problem. I then took the one that looked the worse and was more shriveled and soft where the pea gravel was and cut it in the middle of the shriveled area... all white throughout and my poor baby bled tons on white sap. Now, does anyone know if these may be viable still without re-cutting and just correcting the problem by removing the pea gravel. Will it firm up again once it does not have the offending heat source of gravel. They were in the sun yesterday with temp right at 100. i have them on a heat pad at night and the pots stay very warm all night. They are in 1 gallon pots. Here is a picture of a stem that actually looks better than the one I cut and the middle of the cut section. They are both very soft where they are shriveled.

Tammie