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Makes a 1080×1350 card — both photos, days of care and the health change.

Found: Clearance rack, $2, sitting in a puddle of its own water

Diagnosis: Root rot from constant saturation, plus low light stretching

1. Day 0 — intake. Half the root ball was black and sour. Everything mushy came off and it went into dry, chunky mix.
2. Day 9 — first water since intake, run through fully and drained.
3. Day 16 — first new leaf, and six fully yellow ones removed.
4. Day 41 — soil now dries out in five days. That is a plant with working roots.

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Makes a 1080×1350 card — both photos, days of care and the health change.

Found: Big-box clearance shelf, 70% off, half its leaves on the floor

Diagnosis: Shock and inconsistent watering — brown edge spotting, bare lower branches

1. Day 0 — no repot, no fertilizer, no moving it. One bright spot, chosen once.
2. Day 14 — it dropped four more leaves before it stopped. Expected, not a failure.
3. Day 51 — the first new leaf, after seven weeks of nothing.
4. Day 88 — glossy and stable on the same watering rhythm all along.