I'd say that you're well on your way to saving your plant. Give it a few months for roots to regrow ...

Agree

If those leaves haven't perked up by now I would remove them. I would probably have removed them when I repotted only because I wouldn't want them to rot and carry the rot forward. Good luck and update us about her recovery!!! Rosie

Thanks Rosie. I just gave it a smidge more water, as it was pretty bone dry. Any leaves that don't perk up by the end of today or tomorrow will be removed. So far, it doesn't seem too bad.

Great! I wish you success!!!!! Rosie

Thanks for going into detail Irina! I dropped the ball on that one. Rosie

Thanks Irina. I will do that.

Thanks Irina, the info is timely. A friend asked me about that.

Joan

For whatever reason - if a Streptocarpus starts looking sad from overwatering -just keeping it on a dry side often helps. It will isolate the rotted area and wall it up. Not so with AVs... too juicy...

If AV develops a root rot - it catches the whole root system immediately - and creeps up the stem.

The chance for Judy's plant - if it was not the rot - but somethig else - for example - if the plant got dry to the bone - it will lose its feeder roots, so before it regrows them - it is not able to provide water for everything - so it will send all the resources to the crown and shed the old leaves. No amount of water will help = because the miniscule feeder roots are gone.

What about leaves that rooted in water but I forgot to plant and got dried out? Should I recut the stem and plant directly?

Depends how dry is dry.. if roots and the callus is dead - recut is probably the best. Callus is a kind of a scar tissue plant heals the wound with and where often the roots come from.

So since I started this thread about my poor Spanish Dancer, I thought I would give you an update on where we are. As I initially noted, I bagged the plant after removing most of the root ball, many of the leaves and repotting it. After a couple of weeks, it wasn't doing any better. When I checked the stem, it was rotted all the way up. At that point all the leaves were quite wilted and soft. Someone on the Brat Pack AV forum happened to post around then that you could firm up wilted leaves by soaking them in water (after removing them from the plant, of course). So I tried that, and sure enough, after 2 or 3 days I had 2 reasonably firm leaves, which I put down in potting soil and bagged them. This was probably the 2nd week in May. I can now report that I have several pretty good size plantlets coming up from those leaves, even though one of those mother leaves is almost rotted through. For me, the moral of this story is that you can successfully propogate using leaves that are pretty beaten up. Give it a try!

Well done!!! Glad you didn't give up! It was worth the effort. Like they always say "If at first you don't succeed,,,,,,try and try again!" Rosie

I second - Well Done!