@sallyg Thank you for the reply! I'm honestly astonished. I mean, I did read once someplace that if there's even one cell still alive that it's possible for it to regenerate, but this thing was good and dead. Everything that I was told not to do I basically did after I thought this thing was dead. I just let it be and now it's growing much faster. I know this particular species is succulent-like, so I'm not certain if that could have played a role somehow? I also don't know if there are new healthy roots actually growing, occasionally secondary air roots do grow but I don't see them on this plant at all. I didn't want to actually look and risk disturbing anything. I had placed the pot with the soil in isolation as to not risk disease spreading to my other plants. I treated the soil with several chemicals, systemics and non-systemics, I washed and cut all the roots, soaked it in hydrogen peroxide and just for fun to see if anything could happen I applied a root growth stimulator, chelated liquid iron, and Liquid Silicon. I mean, I figured it couldn't hurt and I was just going to throw it away but I never got around to it. I'm glad now that I didn't but I'm still concerned that the original bacteria or fungus might still be present in the stem and soil. Who knows maybe it'll be more resistant somehow in the future, it is outside of its zone, and I don't have much luck with these despite constantly being told they are the hardest plants to kill, I guess I'll wait and see.
