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Is this plant Salviagable?

RhythmSpring

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Hi,

Someone gave me some beautiful plants to take care of. Shortly after the plant transfer, the leaves started dropping until the stems were bare. This took a few weeks. I sprayed them twice a day, watered them about every 3-4 days, gave them a little (perhaps not enough?) Sunlight.

About a month after the plants were just standing bare, one new growth came from the base of one stem. But now it's drooping. I'm sad--it doesn't seem to me like these plants are going to make it.

But, a friend of mine seems to think that these stems still hold the potential for new growth. Take a look at this plant. Does it seem still alive to some degree to you?

Help! I feel like I have a brown thumb.
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Hi,

Someone gave me some beautiful plants to take care of. Shortly after the plant transfer, the leaves started dropping until the stems were bare. This took a few weeks. I sprayed them twice a day, watered them about every 3-4 days, gave them a little (perhaps not enough?) Sunlight.

About a month after the plants were just standing bare, one new growth came from the base of one stem. But now it's drooping. I'm sad--it doesn't seem to me like these plants are going to make it.

But, a friend of mine seems to think that these stems still hold the potential for new growth. Take a look at this plant. Does it seem still alive to some degree to you?

Help! I feel like I have a brown thumb.
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Well, it definitely looks alive(ish)... maybe it needs more constant humidity? I've heard they prefer bright but diffuse light rather than direct sunlight. Then again, I've had no success with S. divinorum propagation myself so I don't really have anything useful to add. The directional growth does seem to suggest the plant would like more light, however.
 
They like a lot of water with a little drainage. If you want to bring it back get a big glass container and pot it in that like a terrarium. It'll thrive, it will grow to the room it has but it'll thrive. That there is definately salvageable if you were to do this.

Otherwise they need to be hardened off a bit for other conditions. I have one outside that does average night time temps of 0c no problems with frost cover for 3 months a year. It dies back hard but always reshoots in spring. I do not live in a humid environment and it still survives.

I have a back up in a terrarium (indoors) that I never water or feed and its thriving, it does grow spindly leaves due to its enclosed environment but its happy.
 
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