Quote Originally Posted by oldhaole
Of the four I have taken two were full of rot, and worthless. One was great and everybody got a nice piece of her. The last one wanted to mold, but the hot weather held it back.
I just had a question about this, have you tried using cloning gel on the areas that look to be getting moldy or rotten? I tried it once and it seemed to work, because it's supposed to disinfect without hurting the plant. Well, obviously depends on the kind of cloning gel. It also may have been that I stopped watering near the base of the plant. I was just wondering, to see if anyone else had tried the gel.

ALSO! What I found for my outdoor plants that worked fairly well was putting my plant on a bigger mound of dirt, so that the water leaks away from the immediate root system a bit faster. The only issue I had was that some of the top soil washed down, but I replaced it with dry dirt and redwood bark and the bark seemed to keep things from sliding down.

I'm still considering moving to Hawaii.

I'll be on AIM if anyone would like to chat.