Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical Plants and Gardens #117, 1 by dyzzypyxxy

dyzzypyxxy wrote:
Happy Birthday, Cassie! Live it up.

Poor Polly got schlepped around to a not so good spot. All last summer I had it in an excellent place, under the shelter of a big Philo leaf so it didn't get a ton of rain. It had a couple of leaves nearly 2ft. long.

Then when the first cold night was coming, I moved it over by the begonias and Prince so that I could cover them all with one piece of frost cloth. Well, there was a sprinkler there, since the begonias do like their water . . . it turned warm and dry with cool nights in December and I turned on the irrigation a few times to keep things from drying right out. So I'm pretty sure the cool nights combined with too much water are the cause of this problem.

After I pulled off the squishy leaf stem (2nd pic) both the bases now feel fairly firm, so I am not thinking it's done for yet. Still will give it the spin-dry treatment Deb suggested above, and re-pot with fresh coarse mix and place it back under it's sheltering leaf if/when it shows signs of new growth.