My Sunset Versie Brug was drooping all her leaves, I took her out of the pot, washed off the roots, and re-potted but the stem (2") is going soft.
What to do now
My best guess would be that she was too wet. Is she sitting in the room on a table, floor, etc. or on a window ledge maybe. Those window ledges/sills can get very cold. Mix that with too much moisture and you can get root rot. Wondering if it could have been the fungus gnat larve eating all the feeder roots off too. I just don't know. I've lost two or three the same way, but I believe in my case it was the cold bay window and not enough time to get well rooted before the cold weather hit and cooled the window sill down, especially at night. Bay windows are famous for being cold and mine is no exception.
Brugie she is on a table in the puter room nice and cosy, I figured it was the gnats that is why I washed off roots, and they were awfully small roots, all the others seem to be OK
well it was dissaster, plant was getting worse, two others dropping leaves I took them out of pots, the versi had no roots at all, so I cut 4" of the bottom and put it in fresh dirt, two others were not looking good on roots so I cleaned them off and repotted, I did see gnates in the dirt so rolled it up in plasic and put in the trash, I have been treating them with Gnatrol, and had not seen any gnats for over a week, but guess the larve had already started, sure hope no other plants are infected.
Use the Gnatrol on them whether you see gnats or not. That is the only way to make sure you are keeping control. Dang bugs can drive a guy nuts. I hate it when I have one flying around my face or on the computer screen and I can't catch him.
Me too Brugie, trouble is the Gnatrol says to drench the soil, but then the plants get too much water, I hate losing the plants after watching them grow, I know it was in was the potting soil
I just water with it. I figure it is still damp in the bottom with the gnatrol from the previous watering, so I don't do the drench thing and they are pretty much under control here.
That is what I am doing now, just hope they don't all start dropping leaves
Doris, my cuttings all drop leaves from time to time. When they get too many leaves, I take them off. I like them to grow a lot in the spring before I take them outside, but because of mites, aphids, etc. in the house, I like keeping them small and fairly short on leaves right now. Makes it easier to spray. You know how lazy I can be. LOL! I do understand that without some leaves, it is much easier for them to develop root rot too. They need the leaves to require the water uptake and deplete the moisture in the soil. There is always something to fight while growing brugs or anything else in the house. The worst thing I've ever had to fight in here was white flies. They were relentless last winter and spring. I'm hoping that my granular systemic will keep the numbers down this year. Hopefully, your babies in new soil will start putting out a lot of new roots and everything will be okay. If not, I have Maya and next summer can get you a start of it, if she lives over the winter for me.
Thanks Brugie, and I appreciate all your advice, good thing I am hooked on these plants or I would throw them all out, instead I feel like a mommy trying to protect her babies. I must be nuts *LOL*
It is bad being addicted so badly. I'm addicted, but becoming selective. Can't keep them all and have to make room for newer ones. If you are nuts, there are a bunch more of us that belong to the same group. LOL! In all of my years I've never run across a plant that I've fallen so in love with as I have the brug.
Karoke, get some peroxide on those plants if you suspect root rot. It will help. Jeanette