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So: it it appears that despite my best efforts (repotting, removing rotting roots, light watering, placing your indirect light), my ZZ plant is still losing stems (photo 2, the one I repotted) and/or are turning yellow (both photos, where I merely lightly watered the one in photo 1). I’m concerned that I might lose them both (and don’t get me started on the pothos…). My question are: (1) is there any point to cutting off yellow leaves as they appear? and (2) even if I lose all the stems, can the rhizomes be rescued and resuscitated?

@MariansOasis · Answer

Hi 👋 @braymp sorry you’re having trouble with your ZZ plants. Repotting & removing rotting roots are all good. I would have held off on watering, even lightly for about a week though.  If it’s been a 2-3 weeks since you trimmed roots and repotted and it’s still losing leaves and stems I’d take it out again. Remove any rotted material and either leave it out to kind of dry out/callous over, or plant in dry succulent cactus mix and don’t water for 4-5 days. If the rhizomes look okay you can just go all the way down to just rhizome and start again. You can plant the rhizomes in cactus succ mix. But I’d leave the rhizomes out overnight before putting in soil. Again just to let it callous over before introducing new soil. Good luck!!  I hope you can turn it around!🙌

@MariansOasis · Answer

@braymp and really be stingy with water. Once it’s been in dry soil for 4-5 days then give it a good drink but then let it dry out before watering again.

@8elephantsdance · Answer

I honestly would let things seriously chill for a bit. Plants don’t like being handled a lot. I would definitely let it dry out a bit, hold myself back on watering some and give it time to settle in. On my very old very large zz (not in this current oasis, back at home with my partner in Ohio for now) I would let a withering stem die back a bit and when it really starts to go then cut it off.

@sheechilli73 · Answer

Hi, remove the yellow leaves and try to put the put under good sunlight to dry out the soil completely. Zz plant likes heat to develop rhizome. As one stem is also getting yellow, cut it off and propagate it inside water . [ i have been growing ZZ in water and soil mix both]

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