Tradescantia yellow leaves

Old shaded leaves near the pot can yellow while tips stay healthy. Yellowing with soft stems or a wet, crowded crown needs a check for rot.

Keep healthy nodes and correct moisture

Water after the upper mix begins drying and empty runoff. Remove dead leaves that collect at the crown, and give bright filtered light. Inspect roots if yellowing continues with wilt in wet mix.

Preserve firm tip cuttings with nodes beyond damaged stems and root them in lightly moist mix. This can rebuild a bare plant, but reusing a rotten crown or saturated mix carries the same problem into the new planting.