On 21 Jul 2017 16:35, Andy Burns wrote:
I've had a cordyline(?) in a container for about 4 years, it's the
red/brown ttype. It always seems to have done fairly well, and blades
were about 18" long, but they've been dying off from the outside in,
over the last few weeks.

I'm tending to think I've been over watering it as it tends to get some
whenever neighbouring containers get watered.

it it toast? Any hope of growing it on from the risomes?


Tip it out of it's pot if you can and check the roots are OK. If they
are then either repot or plant in the ground (where it should be IMO).
If the roots are rotten but the stem is fine then it may regrow roots
if repotted in well drained compost and kept dryish. If the stem is
rotten cut off the rot, treat as a cutting and grow as above. We had a
full grown green one cut off and dug up by a builder, had no roots, but
I planted again and we still have it decades later. Tough plants.
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Regards
Bob Hobden