Unfortunately, once you notice root/stem rot taking over your plant, it’s VERY difficult to revive your plant. But it’s not totally impossible
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I like to compare root rot/stem rot to split ends and hair care. Split ends can’t be repaired once the hair splits, despite what conditioners try to get us to believe. However, you can take measures to prevent it from happening, like consistent trims , conditioner , and changing your wash schedules . Hair doesn’t like to stay damp and soggy — it has to dry to absorb all the moisture and nutrients we give it during a wash. Same for plants.
More broadly, I think it’d be useful to take the category of brown leaves and stems and break it into two. There are brown, super-soggy, droopy leaves, and then the other side of that is brown/yellow and crunchy/crispy. These are two different problems. Soggy means too much water — either too much at once, or too often. The other side of brown plants is crispy, crunchy leaves, and that’s too much sunlight, where the sun is sucking the life out of the plant.
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