Healthy or not? The pearls on the string length seem healthy, but the strings keep dying at the top when the length is still healthy, what could I be doing wrong? I don’t over water or under water as I check the soil moisture level before watering, it gets a few hours of indirect sun – I’m new to string type plants 😅
by Maximum_Wishbone_694
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Hope this helps! [String of Pearls Care](https://youtu.be/bs5ol9fy878?si=s4Xh-7srIj2LHl97)
Is the root ball wrapped in something? That can suffocate the plant with time. Pot also looks a bit too organic and big for this size of plant. SOP have fairly shallow roots and are pretty susceptible to over watering (Make sure no water sits in the decorative pot an hour after after watering). I only use terracotta and mostly inorganic soil for these since I’m in a 6A climate. Infrequent deep watering when the plant is visually thirsty opposed to frequent minimal watering when the soil is dry is best for succulents
The top of SOP needs as much light as the tendrils. I like to wrap the strings in a spiral on top of the soil to make it look fuller and the rooted strings can sprout the hanging tendrils.
Peep the care guide someone else posted but these are my initial thoughts
Put some of the strings back in the dirt lightly so they can root in the soil, they will weigh too much and pull out completely from the pot
substrate is way too dense and pot way too big, so definitely root rot. unpot. remove rot. repot into 55% grit, rest high quality soil, substrate. remove bottom one or two pearls and insert bare stem into soil if no roots on a string. can use a bobby pin to afix the string into the substrate until they grow roots. bottom water when oldest several pearls get wrinkly, watering is complete when top of substrate is visibly wet. give tons of light if not already, focusing on getting light on the crown
Thank you so much to everyone for their advice, I have repotted and removed the ‘death plug’ as I hadn’t noticed it until now 🤦🏽♀️
Luckily there wasn’t any root rot 🙌🏼
And I’ve spiralled the strings on the top too – as you can tell I’m new to SOP 🌱