PlantFiles Pictures: Dumb Cane (Dieffenbachia spp.), 1 by murat

murat wrote:
hi..
looks like i can ask you a question since i have a similar plant.

I have a 7 feet long Dumb Cane. after seeing some pictures on Internet now i feel like i have the tallest Dumb Cane so far i have seen.
It's been a great plant, but yesterday i noticed very close to the pot there is a very large dry whole on it's body. i can see there is now only an inch that it can keep him standing. i had laid him to a tall stick. so this is how it stays standing.
i am sooo sad. i do not want to see him dying. every leave is so healthy but soon there will be no connection to the pot. i am sure this is a sort of sickness, it is eating him each day. i took the photographs that i'd like to ask your opinions. please help me if you have heard anything about this. i am willing to send you small jpeg images of it's sickness.
it is a beautiful plant and had experienced lots of problems before it came to me. and i believe i took a good care of it. now i need your help, what to get, what to do.
hope to hear from you..
here is the image i attached of my plant, please take a look....
thanks,
Murat