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Originally Posted by Roberta
General advice... don't rush to cut anything! Even some fungal problems resolve themselves and dry up. Observe... take your time. Nothing happens fast. Lots of good plants have been damaged or destroyed by people rushing to cut based on what they saw on YouTube. A lot more than were lost by attacking too slowly. Patience...
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Hi Roberta,
Thank you so much for the welcome and words of wisdom!
I will leave that leaf alone, and honestly that was the advice I was hoping to hear! I will keep an eye on it and see how it develops, if nothing else it will be a good learning experience for me.
I've moved the plant to a new container with small-ish bark chips now and will get a seedling heating mat as well, since my house is cooler than it would prefer (65F).
I really like the weighing system you suggested for determining when to water, and I have the perfect kitchen scale for it. Part of my problem previously was that I should have been paying more attention to the appearance of the roots in the substrate. I would water it, but the roots were mostly dead so I wasn't actually providing the plant with as much access to water as I thought. In addition to the one living root that had been in the substrate, I put a couple of the shorter aerial roots in at the edges, hoping they might adapt. This seems like a controversial approach from what I've read (seems like some folks do it routinely, others advise against), but since it has so many aerial roots I thought it might be worth a try. And hopefully it will start to put new roots into the substrate in time.
Thank you again for your help, I really appreciate it!!
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