Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Rotten Roots, 1 by AlohaHoya

AlohaHoya wrote:
Messing around with some olderplants handing out in the rain...and repotting them...I thought to take a photo of some rotten roots....so the descriptions of the 'cuticle breaking down' is understood. If you rub your fingernail along the root and the 'sluff' comes off (sluff = cuticle)...exposing the sinew...here is what you will see. IT IS ROTTEN.

Then what you do is to pull the rotten stuff off until it doesn't do THAT anymore....dip it in some rooting hormone and start over.....