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Jade roots question

10 years ago

Hello-

I haven't quite been able to find the answer to this. I have a ~15 year old jade plant that desperately needed to be repotted- it was in soil that was heavily compacted (water basically ran off the top and drained). I was able to clean off all the old soil from the roots and have gritty mix waiting to repot it. Pretty much all of the larger roots were woody & a bunch were brittle. The inside of some of the roots were brown. Is this normal or is it rot? None of them were mushy or black and the plant itself seems fine. I had cut off a few of the larger branches last week and there was no evidence of rot in them.

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breathnez
10 years ago
Pictures from multiple angles will help any who want to help...

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Jenn
Original Author
10 years ago
I'd already dusted the roots with cinnamon before I thought to ask. I tried to get a closeup of what I'm talking about. http://i.imgur.com/5W65ePA.png
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lmontestella
10 years ago
Impossible to say since all that's visible is cinnamon colored.

Pls. show us pix of the whole plant, the pot it's in & the WHOLE thing pls. is you wish us to try & help you.

I'd go by the texture of the roots more than the color; crunchy, brittle is dead & to be removed.
Jenn
Original Author
10 years ago
That's the actual color of one of the roots I cut. I meant, the rest are covered. I know there's definitely no rot showing in the rest of the plant. I'm just trying to figure out if brown would be a normal color for a root.

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