Please let me know what I’m doing wrong or how I can bring the sickly plants back to life. I think I over watered at one point because they were starting to shrivel up but that made everything worse. My one dark green plant is thriving and sprouting a new little baby. My plant stays next to the window, is it too much light? I stopped watering for about a month, I don’t want my plant babies to die 🥺. Is it that these succulents need to be separated into their own pots? Is it too far gone?
by tylerlauren_
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Hi! Looks like your arrangement contains plants with differing light and water requirements. I suggest you repotvthem separately into proper soil and pots.
https://reddit.com/r/succulents/w/beginner-basics
https://reddit.com/r/succulents/w/soil_and_potting
Good luck!
They say succulents are the easiest, in fact I find them the hardest
Over watered? I am dead
Underwatered? Still dead
No sunlight? Dead
Too much sunlight? Dead
Too much attention? Dead
Left unattended? Dead
The only part I find agreeing with easiest is growing a new plant
Just pluck a leaf and it will grow new roots
Cachepots are bad. They trap water & prevent airflow. Stagnant water + low oxygen = microbes = rot
Soil requires at the bare minimum 50% inorganic aggregate such as pumice or perlite. You can safely and preferably push that % up.
Not too much light. Not enough light is more likely
succulents are not easy because most people can never give plants thr right amount of water.
Not even your fault. Whoever planted these all in the same pot didn’t know what they were doing either.
I think the biggest issue is the regular nursery potting soil, it’s great for greenhouses but at home it stays soggy and anaerobic, please do correct me if I’m wrong tho as I don’t own succulents so i have not researched it.
DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE DARK GREEN ONE IS CALLED BY CHANCE?
I’m fostering one of these and I can’t figure out exactly what type it is.
I’ve narrowed it down to either gasteria or gasteraloe and I’m stuck on a *flow* , a *royal highness* , or a *bredasdorp*
Please anyone send help
People lie. I have found succulents to be the most finicky of all the plants I’ve ever owned.