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This has been a problem. I've probably been taking care of my VFT's well, even though I'm still a bit of a newbie to them. I used to have two- which one has propagated a littler one. But... Now rotting. 1 of my VFT has died in my worried attempts to try stop this weird rotting. I'm not sure what causes it. Or how to stop it. I've just noticed that my other adult one has started this too, a few weeks after it started to flower.

(Tissue is on the dirt so you can see the rotting better. Blurry because there wasn't really enough lighting.)



How do you stop it? How does it happen?

Did you dig this plant up for the picture or is it planted like that? Because if it's like that the plant should be deeper in the soil. I'm no expert but I would say everything below the black line I drew should be below the soil.

KategoricalKarnivore wrote:Did you dig this plant up for the picture or is it planted like that? Because if it's like that the plant should be deeper in the soil. I'm no expert but I would say everything below the black line I drew should be below the soil.

I pulled away the peat when I discovered it, thank you for asking that though.

Ok that's good. If you could give more details on your growing conditions it may help the diagnosis. Temps, watering schedule, grown inside or outside, your location, etc... And also maybe a picture of the entire plant. The leaves may give some indication of the problem.

At times I may have over watered it lightly. Just rain water I've been using. Most of the time I've had it in a green house with my other plants. My location isn't actually that tropical. (New zealand.) I've realized I've been watering a bit too much when grey mold started to grow around the edges, which I quickly stomped that habit.

The VFT was quite healthy, new roots growing and a flower stalk over head. I'm just wondering what's going wrong.

My finger is pointing to the site of rotting under the small branch there.

It's hard to tell from that pic but it looks like just normal dying of old leaves. You have nice healthy new leaves forming. Maybe I just can't see what you are referring to.

Just pull them old leaves off and propagate them

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It's normal for older leaves to die, and they will die all the way back to the rhizome, but the rhizome should grow faster than it is dying. I don't think it is rot, it is just leaves that have expired.

Branmuffin wrote:It's normal for older leaves to die, and they will die all the way back to the rhizome, but the rhizome should grow faster than it is dying. I don't think it is rot, it is just leaves that have expired.

It's happened before to my other VFT. To the point where I opened it up and the 'rot' was going straight through it. It's not black like normal leaves. It's a light brown. I'm immensely scared for my plant, since its life depends on what's going on in this thread... I'm sure of that.

There's also a giant gap between the rhizome and the leaves. Is it splitting rhizomes? But even then, in that gap is also some mold I found- even though I scraped it off a little.



Even though this isn't a good shot. I'm sure it shows the 'rotting' in the plant itself. The cut off stalk there is a flower stalk that was from a few weeks ago.