How to Prevent and Treat Root Rot in Your Houseplants

Root rot on your plants is when a fungal or bacterial infection gets inside your roots. Either because your plant was waterlogged, your plant roots were damaged, or some other damage and trauma. It is a bacteria or fungal disease that lives in the soil of your pot. It just lives everywhere. Your plant can normally fight it off, but when it becomes damaged, it gets some type of a cut, essentially. Then it can struggle a little bit.

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[marjorieevans]

Thank you so much for this information. I have a Hindu Rope Hoya- my 3rd one, first 2 died a horrible death. This one is not doing well at all and now I understand it more. I kept wondering why all of a sudden it had no roots to actually speak of. Now that I can see what root rot looks like (the little hair like on the roots) that helps me a great deal. I looked at it today, new pot, new soil, cut a some roots off the ones I knew were rotted, but now I think I need to go back and do the others. Cut off the roots and start over. Thank you for the peroxide clarification too. This is my favorite house plant and I really want it to stay with me for a long time.