| If the mushyness is not spreading, the plant will likely continue on and eventually produce a keiki (baby plant) at the base that will eventually be the main plant, with the rest of the plant eventually dying of old age. I have an areides that lost its center 2 or 3 leaves to rot. It did start a new growth at the bottom, but to my shock and delight, the plant did the excetionally nice thing of producing a keiki right down inside of the top of the plant, where the leaves had rotted, and now the plant is growing upward and looking quite normal. Cynthia, Prescott, AZ |