Help! Killed house plant

[Jabbitt]

I have this plant that seems a little… lifeless ☹️ I was watering it when the soil was dry and now, after a weekend away, I returned on Monday to it looking like this. I did out one of the miracle gro house feed pellets into the soil to give it extra nutrients, but I’ve obviously managed to do it some damage! Is there any way I can rescue it?

I took it outside do it could dry off… I obviously no idea how to care for houseplants!!

Perhaps it was overwatering. Seems a rather drastic decline if it was just drought. I'd take it out of the pot and check the roots, see if they've gone rotten. If they're black and/or squidgy. Or check if it smells bad.

If there are still some healthy roots you can prune away the yucky ones and repot but water only when the soil is dry at the top and let it drain. The soil should be damp not sodden. If the stem is soft and rotten you can try cutting it above the rotten bit and repotting it can resprout from the healthy wood.

Alternatively, if you'd left it in full Sun and it was hot it may have cooked like a dog in a hot car. If that's what happened then it might resprout from the stem if that survived or the roots even if everything above the soil is dead.

Tldr check roots, remove anything rotten and don't overwater. Keep in a bright spot but out of direct sun, except perhaps in the morning.

I hope it gets better.

Let it dry out, leave it be and they sprout new leaves. DP overwaters things sometimes he's been banned from my plants but the sneaky bugger still does it before I've got up occasionally and his Yucca always recovers once he's left it alone for a bit.

Thank you both! Will try your suggestions 🙂

Just going to add something. That looks like very moisture retentive compost in the pot. It gets used for sales as it means they're less likely to dry out whilst sitting on a supermarket shelf for weeks. And then you've watered a lot right at the base of the plant

Tip it out and replace with half succulents compost - it drains more easily - which Yuccas need, whilst taking off any soggy, stinky, rotten roots. And then, instead of leaving him in a puddle, when he does dry out between waterings, dunk him in a bowl of water briefly, take out, allow to drain and then put him back in the pot cover.