Hello,
I have a 30 year old Cordatum Philodendron that I noticed a white slime growing around the rim of the pot. This worried me, so I took it upon myself to re-pot the plant. It's served me well for a long time and my mother (of blessed memory) would want me to take care of her plant best I can.
So today I removed the plant from the pot but noticed a lot of the roots, while thin, were destroyed while uprooting mom's plant.
I cleaned away the slime, boiled out the pot, put rocks in there as I'm supposed to, and put fresh and old soil back in there because I didn't buy enough from the store.
What I'm worried about now is it looked like a very small root system that was left intact. Not only that, the stems were so long I decided to cut them in half, and at a slanted angle replace them all into the soil.
Do you think the new stems are going to take hold? Is there a "trick" I should keep in mind while trying to get new stems to take? What do you think is going to be the outcome of this plant as a whole? Many thanks for everyone's help.