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DrChickadee

I need some advice about this plant. It's a massive dieffenbachia that currently lives in my office. I repotted it when I bought it back in August but I think because of the density of the roots, I should have chosen an even bigger pot because it's needed water every 2-3 days. I was away from the office for Christmas and have only watered it twice in the past few weeks. It's been dropping a leaf weekly for a while but putting out new growth so I didn't worry about it. Now it's obviously struggling (looks worse in person) and even some of the leaves that aren't yellowing have dark spots on them or are soft. But it still has new growth. What do I do? I've started by watering to see if I can get some life back in it but I'm not sure if repotting will even help if a ton of leaves fall off. I don't want a bare trunk at the bottom. Is there a way to cut it and propagate a plant this big? There's also some smaller offshoots at the bottom that I could potentially separate but I've never done that before. Thoughts?

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  1. ✨RikkiLynn✨

    I just had this same problem with mine! Mine isn’t as large as yours, but the leaves were getting brown spots and looked bad. I ended up going ahead and cut them off to make room for new growth. 🤷🏼‍♀️ I also bought a soil moisture probe to check if it needs to be watered. I added a picture of mine from right after I cut the bad parts off, there’s a huge new leaf growing so I think it’ll all even back out eventually.

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    • DrChickadee

      Did you cut the main stalk or just the leafs?

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    • ✨RikkiLynn✨

      I just cut the leaves off, but I cut them down far enough to callus over and hopefully sprout some new leaves over time. This plant was a rescue and looked horrible when I brought it home. I think it’s doing fairly well now besides having to chop some of the original leaves.

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