urgh.. been like this for last few days. the leaves are drooping really bad. the soil was so light, i thought it was too dry. gave some water, but the leaves are not perking up. put it into the humidity bin, and that's not helping.

the roots are still strong. i think something happened, but can't figure out what. i left it out in the drier bin and decide to neglect it to see what happens. it worked with Marius's Unknown Greek. NdC had hard time putting on the root and leaves. would really hate to lose it now.

Pete, sorry to hear that. That's one of my prized
cuttings.

I have 1 or 2 trees doing this too.  I'm wondering if the gnats got to it.  Let us know if it regenerates.

Pete,
Induced coma works for humans, maybe an induced dormancy would work, put it in the refrigerator and see if it will work.  If you have tried everything else there is nothing else to try.  I think that the refrigerator treatment would not kill it, could be a delayed death but its worth a try.

GOOD LUCK

no gnat in the house. i have D. venusta right next to the humidity bin and haven't seen any landing on it. there's no mold, not rot. the roots between the clear cup and the peat pot is white and strong. i would have imagined that the leaves were either not getting enough water or no humidity. but humidity bin didn't help. and giving small dose of water didn't help either. it might be there is something else going on like the roots are rotting inside of the peat pot, but i hate to dig it out of the cup. will have to leave it alone for few days and see if it bounce back. i might cut the branches off to save more humidity being lost to the top. if it will survive, it should put out new branch.

Pete, I have had a couple of cuttings that did the same thing and I thought
there was no way it could be too wet. When I removed from cup the cutting
was wet and the bark was mush. You could slide the bark off. I still don't
understand how some can do that.

mike, even using same soil mix, i noticed that for whatever reason some setups don't drain as fast. that's why i use peat pot inside of the clear cup to draw the water to between the peat pot and clear cup. i measure the water content by holding up the cup to see if they are retaining too much water and this cup doesn't. but it might be that there's standing water in the peat pot for whatever reason.. maybe the soil and perlite didn't mix well or something. i'm going to drill some holes on the side and cut all the branches off today to see if anything improves.

Good luck.

roots still look good. i just cut the branches off and they did not have ton of latex like other branches i cut for other reasons before on the cuttings. i think the cutting cut off whatever resources that branches needed sometime ago. the cuttings still looks good. it's a good size thick cutting and i don't see any drying. so hope it will bounce back. 

Thanks Pete. Hope it will.