Originally Posted by Nyssa

I'm new to gardening and I bought a really nice tropical plant...I'm
not sure of the name but it has broad greed leaves and the flower that
comes out of it opens up to almost look like the top of a pineapple
and comes in a varietly of colours like red and yellow and orange.
The plant I bought was in a small 6 inch pot I think, and it looked
like it had three close knit sections (there were three long red buds
with leaves surrounding each so I assumed it could be split into three
smaller plants). I wanted to split the plant into three smaller
sections because it looked like it was outgrowing the pot and also
that the roots were all tangled up. Plus the long buds did not look
like it was ever going to bloom and the some of the leaves were
turning yellow. I guess I should have just transferred to a bigger
pot, but out of the blue I decided it would be cool to have three
smaller plants. When I split them, it took a lot of effort and I was
very afraid that I might have damaged the roots (I had to cut some and
pull them apart). Is there any way to prevent these from dying on me
now that I did that? It was a very bad judgement call but I did not
have a larger pot to replant and the root ball was really tightly
knotted and there was barely any soil near the bottom when I took it
out.

After repotting into three new pots with a potting mix, I watered well
with a few drops of scholtz all purpose fertilizer. I'm not sure what
else will help keep them alive.

Please help, any advice is much appreciated!

Nyssa.