Tried to grow ADA Thai silk cuttings (6) after drying cuttings for 14 days and planted in coco peat in 2-inch pots, today my mind told.
me to check the cuttings, gently pulled the cutting it had basal stem rot with a brown coloured lesion.
Can someone in forum tell me about their experience.
Regards
Prabhi S

if you try again ..... use 100% sand for cuttings (if using beach sand - rinse well )....
check cuttings for roots in about 14 days - if cutting has roots - then repot in coarse, gritty, fast draining soil mix

Coco peat will hold too much moisture, so it will understandably rot the base, there are no roots yet able to take in moisture. Use more porous media, like cacti mix and add more pumice or perlite to make it much more grittier.

I do not want to use sand either. better pumice, perlite or crushed lava rock with the media, and putting them around the base of the cuttings, as top dressing so it further protects it from sitting in too moist media.

You are trying to encourage root formation, so it needs more warmth at root zone but not too much sun yet that may dry out and stress the cuttings too fast.

tarev said:Coco peat will hold too much moisture, so it will understandably rot the base, there are no roots yet able to take in moisture. Use more porous media, like cacti mix and add more pumice or perlite to make it much more grittier.

I do not want to use sand either. better pumice, perlite or crushed lava rock with the media, and putting them around the base of the cuttings, as top dressing so it further protects it from sitting in too moist media.

You are trying to encourage root formation, so it needs more warmth at root zone but not too much sun yet that may dry out and stress the cuttings too fast.

Thank you all, I shall try again.
Prabhi S

Can you grow a cutting in pure pumice? if so, fine or medium grade pumice.

@tarev uses pumice.

I've had luck with thick mature adenium cuttings that have calloused for a week and rooting them with water first. The thin cuttings would rot easy.