Today I decided to check on the sick adenium I'm trying to nurse back to health for my mom. It has been hanging, I don't know, about a month and a half? Anyway. There is more root rot.

This is the front view, pretty bad:

This is the back view, not so bad:

I checked the roots, and one of them basically broke off my hand. I decided to cut it, and see how far the root went. The cut piece is on the side.



Since it looked pretty decent, I decided to pot it up:

...and sprinkled with cinnamon of course!

But now I don't know if I should give up on the plant. I cut more into the caudex, and as you can see, the damage is extensive:



What do I do now?

Oh wow, that looks bad . I think you did about as good as you could with the damage you had. I notice you just have rocks is that your regular media?

RobertB

Hi Ive, even though it looks bad it still has a chance to recover. Let it plenty of air to dry out the rotted area, as soon as you see it is completly dry try peeling it off than let it dry a little more before planting it again.

now the other one that looks like only caoude was left, check and see if can see if there any area on it were a leaf used to be at, if there is none than try to graft a piece of another plant into it. I say this because if there is no leaf outlet on the caudex it won't grow anymore and eventualy rot away. hope this helps you.

Your Friend Wilfred

Well, I'll try to operate again, and hang it back up.

I really thought it was coming along.

Hey Ive, let the rotted part to dry up first than try to piel the dry rotted part off than it should heal nicely.

Your Friend Wilfred

Hi Robert, I use rocks just for the bottom, and the top. There is actually soil in there.

Wilfred, I didn't keep digging yesterday; so I'll hang the plant back up again. I'm kind of bummed about the root part, since I've never tried to graft anything in my life. I'll look and see if I can cut off a piece from another of my adeniums, just to give it a try.

Haha, I have a root that's been green and sitting there for nearly a year now. Hahaha, I think it's funny as can be, a root. I'll post a photo in a few days...

...and I'm oficially giving up on this one. Caudex is toast.

I usually consider this sort of thing 'Adenium lessons'....

Well, it was my mom's lesson. That poor adenium spent weeks sitting in water before I rescued it.

I was just trying to nurse it back to health. Lived, learned and moving on.

Been there done that also... but you gave a valiant effort!!

RobertB