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[INDOOR-GARDENING:465] Re: Chinese Evergreen

I had a similar experience with my chineese evergreen except that my new 
puppy had knocked it down and the stem broke off from the root.  I put the 
cut plant in water also hoping for roots and continued looking after the 
roots hoping for leaves.  Unfortunately the roots eventually just rotted and 
while the leaves of my cutting stayed green for quite some time roots never 
did appear and eventually they turned yellow and died as well.  Sorry for 
such bad news.  I hope you have more luck!

Jen

>Hello Everyone,
>
>I have had a Chinese Evergreen (Aglaonema, Silver Queen) for about 18 months
>now and I have treated it very badly.  It was originally very full and
>happy, but over the last few months it has gotten sparser and sparser.
>Yesterday I wanted to pick off a couple of yellow leaves, and the whole
>stalk came out of the ground - the roots had rotted off.  I then gave gentle
>tugs to the other 5 stalks, and I got the same reaction.  I cut off the
>rotted portion, threw out the soil, and left the stalks in a vase of water,
>hoping they will root again.  I realize that what I did wrong - I
>overwatered the poor thing.  I keep it on top of a high shelf, and it is
>difficult to test the soil up there, so I just watered it without checking.
>I looked up propagation techniques for the chinese evergreen, and "cuttings"
>wasn't one of them (division was).
>
>Has anyone experienced anything similar?
>
>Thanks,
>Donna
>
>
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