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I spent $85 on a 'rare' philodendron cutting that just died
I saw this gorgeous philodendron gloriosum cutting online, sold as a 'rare collector's item' for eighty five bucks. The seller had great pictures and promised it was a strong, rooted plant. When it arrived after a week in the mail, it looked okay at first, but the single leaf started yellowing within days. I did everything right, good soil, indirect light, kept it humid. It just slowly rotted at the base. I feel like I paid for the hype, not a healthy plant. A lot of these 'rare' plant sellers are just cashing in on the trend and the plants aren't ready to be sold. I should have waited and bought a smaller, established plant from a local nursery for half the price. Has anyone else had a cutting fail on them after spending a lot?
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willow6723d agoTop Commenter
Oh MAN, I have to jump in and disagree HARD here. @jana_miller31, I totally get why you feel that way about single leaf cuttings, but I've actually had the OPPOSITE experience with my gloriosum. I bought a one leaf cutting for sixty bucks on a whim, it looked ROUGH for the first few weeks, but I just put it in a jar with moss and forgot about it in my bathroom. Two months later it sprouted a second leaf and now it's a monster. The problem isn't the cutting itself, it's that sellers rush these things out before they've established any real root system. If you get one that was actually grown in proper conditions and let it settle in slowly, that single leaf has PLENTY of stored energy to push new growth. IMO your cutting probably wasn't ready to be taken from the mother plant in the first place.
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jana_miller316d ago
My gloriosum cutting was fifty bucks and did the exact same thing. In my experience, those single leaf cuttings just don't have enough energy to make it.
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Disagree on the energy thing. My best philodendron came from a single leaf cutting that looked half dead. The trick was keeping it in a clear box for humidity and ignoring it for months. Sometimes they just need more time than we expect to push out that first new growth.
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