u/schmutzig_ei

Just rescued this begonia rex from a supermarket where it will have been getting no natural light. In terms of watering I imagine it's probably had a mixture of being allowed to dry out and then overwatered. Current soil seems to be a standard houseplant soil.

All I've done is remove the very dead leaves, and checked it doesn't have roots coming out of the bottom of its nursery pot. It has black, crispy edges to it's leaves, including the newer leaves. I can see one baby leaf emerging. Some stems are soft.

Really interested to hear what people think is wrong here, and how they'd rehab it.