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Image 1 — Overwatered Euphorbia (I think). What can be saved?
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Overwatered Euphorbia (I think). What can be saved?

Hi everyone,

I need help with my dear plant. I believe it is a Euphorbia. I’ve had it for 5 years since it was tiny and taken such good care of it, but while traveling abroad my grandmother put it outside (northeast USA) and I believe it to be deeply overwatered from recent rainstorms. Assume watered every 3 days for the last 3 weeks. Far too much for this plant. Direct sun on a south facing deck. Also far too much.

Is this diagnosis correct? what can I do? I know how to take care of it normally and NEVER had a single issue until leaving it with my grandmother, so the question is more of how to recover from here rather than how to prevent this kind of thing.

I'm thinking either [A] cut the stems down below the brown and start over or [B] cut some cuttings and try and root them.

With option A I know we need to treat root rot probably. Pull it up, cut off brown parts, bake the potting mix to sterilize. Anything else?

Last image is a before picture <\3

The monstera I left is similarly overwatered but I think I can take care of that one on my own, they're resilient.

TIA

u/Tasty-Tourist7913 — 14 hours ago