I'm upset and freaked out because my last one died after I completely ignored it for a while, then watered it after like two weeks. This website is really annoying me lately, it won't upload my pictures. I've tried six times and it just won't load. I like this plant and don't want to kill another

I know it's so frustrating, I tried 3 x to post a pic w/out success & even made a quick post abt it right here, yet no such post. Who knows, maybe it'll show up tomorrow.

OK, I know you're bummed but pls calm down, take a few deep breaths, I don't think your plant is dying. Also you can take cuttings & water root them just in case.

The stems don't look as bad as you seem to think. Perhaps potting the tuber (w/ no roots) w/ the rooted ones was an issue as they'd take up water at different speeds. Perhaps too the tuber may not need water to get started.

I'm sorry, I just hate this time of year. Everything in my area either goes dormant or dies and every year I get nervous about every little spot I see. I'll give it some time, hopefully it'll settle in. I mixed some more perlite into the soil, I reached in to unpot it and the stuff it came in felt like sand. Gave it my usual potting soil that drains much faster. Hopefully it's just transplant shock. Thank you for your help, I feel better now :)

I'll try to write more tonite, but pls clarify, did you mix the old, sandy feeling soil w/ your regular?

I hope not, I'd intended you to change the mix completely.

Pls don't apologize, but if I may get stern for a moment, you MUST learn to calm down, you can't allow yourself to become fraught like this every Fall / Winter. You're making yourself unnecessarily crazy so pls get a grip on yourself & stop it, cause it helps nothing & costs you a lost of mental & emotional energy which I'm sure you could spend in more positive ways.

Next time: tip cuttings & maybe show you my porous mix If the darn pix will work.

No, I put it in all new mix. I wouldn't mix the old with the new and I didn't like how it felt anyway. Thank you. I hope the pictures work later so I can see the

Hi Elia,

Glad to hear you changed ALL the mix, that was an excellent decision esp since you hadn't liked how the soil felt to you. This is a quick note to touch base, I have a deadline at work in next couple of days, but I wanted to touch base & say how glad I am you're feeling better given my reassurances.

I hope to take some to cuttings to set up in water, & restart some new ones. But so you know for the future, tip cuttings can be done in water & then potted when the roots are abt one inch long. One doesn't need a tuber to restart them. But be assured, should you lose yours (I doubt it) I'll share some of mine (tho' mine have a different pattern on their leaves).

Hopefully more later or soon.

Thank you for offering to share yours. And I'm sorry I haven't gotten back to you sooner, my 15 year old router finally broke and I couldn't get online. It seems to be doing better in the looser mix I put it in. Maybe that weird, sandy soil was choking it. Yellow leaves are falling off but it doesn't seem to be spreading to green leaves. Hope work goes well for