How to revive a brazilwood

Despite being a tropical plant that requires relative humidity, it is possible to overdo the watering of the Brazil trunk. In fact, despite its name, it is not possible to have a brazilwood in water that is healthy, and a brazilwood that is drowned or whose soil is always too wet will end up getting sick and rotting.

If you notice Brazilian trunk with soft stem or the trunk in poor condition, you will have to intervene urgently to save the plant. Follow these instructions on how to recover a rotten stick of happiness:

1. Carefully feel the stems for those that are not dry and tough, and prune those that are unwell.
2. Remember that it is very important that the pruning tools are as sharp as possible and properly disinfected. This is always vital, but it is even more so when we carry out pruning to recover a plant whose health is in danger. Use pruning shears or a dull knife and make a clean cut at a slight angle to prevent debris from collecting in the wound.
3. Apply healing paste on it. If you don’t have one, you can make it yourself with melted candle wax and fungicidal powder, which you should apply while it’s still liquid and let it dry on the wound to seal it.
4. Remove any rotten or spoiled leaves from the plant and carefully remove it from the pot. Lightly shake off the moister soil from the roots and wrap the root ball with absorbent paper. Use multiple layers so you can remove all excess moisture from the plant. Leave it like this for at least 24 hours, somewhere dry and out of direct sun.
5. If the next day the soil is still wet, renew the paper and repeat. If it seems dry already, transplant the brazilwood into a container with holes and a light, well-draining potting mix. A mixture of peat with earthworm humus, coconut fiber and perlite is a very good option.
6. Apply fungicide to the plant to protect it from brazilwood diseases while it is still weak.

We recommend you read this other simple guide on How to prune a Brazilian trunk.

Another possibility of a sick brazil trunk it is that it has dried for too long without watering or due to insufficient moisture. For revive a dry brazil log follow these steps:

1. Remove the plant from areas where there are drafts, which cause the plant to lose moisture.
2. After this, and once you have verified that the substrate is dry but absorbs water adequately, put the pot in a container with water and leave it there, submerged, for a maximum of half an hour.
3. Take it out and let the drainage holes remove excess water, still keeping the plant away from drafts.
4. Over the next few days, increase the frequency of watering and, if the weather is very dry in your area, spray water on the brazilwood leaves two or three times a week. A transplant to a new container with fresh soil will also help. Here we tell you how to transplant a plant.

There are different reasons why brazilwood leaves turn yellow. If they are yellow but droopy, excessively soft, it is due to excess watering or moisture in the soil. In this case, simply reduce the risks or change the substrate for one with better drainage. Remember that this plant needs a pot with drainage holes. If what happens is that the tips of the leaves are dry and brown, and the edges are yellow, it is that the plant needs the opposite: more irrigation and humidity or less exposure to the sun.

In either case, if your plant is weak, nothing better than helping it with a supply of natural organic fertilizer such as worm humus or compost, which you can add to the soil in spring and summer. In fact, doing it even if you don’t have any problems is always a good idea.

We recommend you read more about the problem of yellow leaves on plants: why they appear and solutions in this other post. Also, now that you’ve learned how to recover a trunk from brazil depending on the problem you have, we advise you to read this guide on Brazilian Trunk Care to learn even more.

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