Thursday, November 12, 2009

Please help- is my begonia plant dying?

I've had it for a few months and it's been doing great. Recently I think I soaked it too much because I watered it an put it in a place without enough sun for 2 days. I saw that all the flowers were turning brown so rushed it to the sun and gave it some vitamins. It didn't seem to help. One of the two branches was all soggy like cooked broccoli. I took the whole branch off and threw it away. Now the other one that seemed healthy fell over. Is there anyway to save it?





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Please help- is my begonia plant dying?
Begonias don't want big sun, they're shade plants.





That one looks like the "tuberous" variety. Take a deep breath, cut the last lonely remaining stem off, remove flowers, place stem in a clear container of water. If it doesn't root in 2 weeks, trash it.





Mother plant: Withold water completely. Plunk it in a closet or other dark place. After a month or 2 bring it out and begin watering - once per week is good. It might just resprout for you.
Reply:it is already gone. give her a proper funeral. and for the next victim - remember, it is better to overdry than overwater. if u overdry and a plant wilts - u just put it in water (with pot) and spray it with water and put a plastic bag around it and in a few hours it will be better than new. but if u overwater and put in dark place roots start to rot and there is nothing u can do any more. and remember - root rot is contageous for other plants, so earth in which plant was growing should be destroyed too. if u plan to use pot again - wash it with soap and i usually put it to soak in chlorine and wash it again after. good luck next time. i would throw this plant right away
Reply:it looks as if you have a black nursery pot sitting in a yellow pot that is ceramic and has no drain holes, yes?.... there's the problem.... plants cannot sit in water, they drown....their roots need air just like we do.... when you 'soaked it too much', the water drained out of the black pot and stood there around the bottom of the yellow pot.... have you poured it out yet?... if not, then the one that's left is certainly hurting, too.....if there's any firmness left in the branches, you might save it ... maybe... but you'll have to take off the flowers and any gooey.... make sure the soil gets a chance to dry out, too....if there's a goodly ammount of the plant still firm, I'd take it out of the pot, brush off SOME of that wet soil, and then replant it with fresh soil that has been MOISTENED, but is still dryer than what's around it now..... no food.... just fresh soil.... give it a month or more to recover and watch it to be sure it's actually reviving, not going further down hill..... luck to ya!....


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