Has this ever happened to you? I was at Ikea, and found a beautiful Haworthia. I know how tricky it can be to find healthy plants at big box stores, but I looked this Haworthia over, and it appeared really healthy.
I brought it home, and just over a week later, disaster struck. My beautiful new plant was basically… mush. Learn why this happened and what to look for in this video!
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12 Comments
Can we see the roots?
I did this to mine by overwatering by accident I had it for about 4 months before I over watered I was doing every week or ever other week lol I learned my lesson 😭😭
Our home depot store just contracted with a company to come in and take care of their plants. What a difference! I wish all of the stores would do this.
I just received the incentive to really love my healthy dark green Haworthia!
However, I finally got the courage to plant some cold hardy sucs outside last summer.
Then along comes an Arctic Blast giving Denver 2 days of below zero temps. Our hoa advised
running our water on outside walls overnight.
I'll bet those plants weren'eTHAT cold hardy. Nuts!
I rescued 2 poor succulents from 2 box stores, and immediately when I got home, I took them out of their pots and checked their roots. They were too wet, so I separated them from the wet soil and let them dry. Then I repotted them. 2 years later, their babies had babies. I have 2 grandparent succulents.
That’s tragic – I love zebra plants. I have a Bear Paws I bought a week ago at a nursery and it’s not looking so great but we’ll see. Happy Holidays! 🎄
Wish I had this info two months ago! I purchased a Haworthia retusia from a box store and within 2 weeks it turned brown-I repotted it( checked the roots and did new soil) , then moved it about 6 inches from the original spot and to my great surprise/it turned green and looked like it should. With your info I could have saved a lot of time and concern. Thanks so much-glad to know I could save this one!
Stopped at Lowes to get some Christmas supplies a few days ago. They seem to hate all plants at that particular store. I, of course, had to look at what living things were in the plant section. They did not have new succulents throughout the summer but that day they had what looked like a new supply of succulents and they had them sitting on shelves sitting front feet from a busy outside door. The door went to the outdoor landscaping and plant area. I couldn’t look. We have had a very cold fall and the past few weeks have been at freezing or below. The tropical plants are subjected to this as well. They were not looking so well. The succulents were looking ok, which they will for a while, but that is some serious stress for most plants. It is a large store. Why they keep those plants in front of a door to the outside I do not understand.
It is a hit and miss thing buying plants from a big department store. If you get them when they have just come from the nursery you may have a better change of getting a good plant, depending on the nursery. It seems like some stores just refuse to water plants while others just pour the water on if the plants need it or not. Most stores are not going to hire someone that has knowledge of all of the different species of plants but they should! It must be that they get those plants very cheap.
Thank you for this video.
Have seen succulents in the big box stores that were sitting in sopping wet peat/coco w/ zero grit. If not waterlogged, the peat is often bone dry and so tight around the base/roots of the plant that it becomes almost impossible to remove w/o damaging the plant.
I can understand that big box store employees may not know how to care for succulents, but I don't understand why any grower/suppliers would decline to plant succulents in a proper, freely-graining, substrate (I'm looking at you, Altman Plants!).
"You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing." _Philippos
Thank you for explaining this! It happens too often, even with stores like Lowes, who have large garden centers! Fungus gnats & root rot galore! Either that, or they neglect them so long they dry out! So sad 😭