Hi friends! I’ve had this guy for years — I can’t remember the name, but it’s grown from a single head to a small cluster.
I moved cross country in July. My plants were mailed to me shortly afterwards and potted up on the other side. The entire collection survived the journey and is actively growing again… Except for the Haworthia.
Any ounce of chlorophyll has left the plant, except for the very faintest tinge of green at the center of some of its heads. The roots are intact, not dessicated, but no new growth has happened there either. I cut open a leaf just to check, and although they’re all wrinkly and brown, they’re still wet inside.
It seems the whole plant is in a deep sleep. I’ve been very patiently watering it (scantly) and keeping it under a screen to give it some shade, but after 5 months, nothing has changed. Do I keep going as is, hoping it’ll wake up eventually, or throw in the towel?
I didn’t realize it would be so sensitive to a couple days of transit!
by Novel_Lie5519
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Haworth’s reticulata v. hurlingii?
I wonder if it’s in a kind of dormancy doom loop… you say you are watering scantly? It’s in that ‘jacks gritty’ mix or something similar in a small terra cotta pot. This could dry very sharply. Sometimes you aren’t seeing much activity so you water very little, and if it dries quickly the plant will just stay dormant forever because it never stays moist long enough to grow. It’s especially a thing when plants need to grow new roots. Haws usually ditch the old roots and grow new ones after a re-pot. So if the media dries very quickly plus it has a tiny root system it’s going to have a hard time getting enough water.
This thing is thirsty. I would consider watering a bit more. If you have heat mat or light you could use that to try and coax it into growing/ gives you more leeway to water aggressively without worrying. Another idea is to place a cup on top to create humidity. Give it some dilute fertilizer or slow release pellets too.
Cool plants. You can burry them a bit deeper when you re-pot. Mine was happy for a few years in a pot like yours, but I eventually switched my haws over to deeper plastic pots.