My echeveria's been doing fine during the winter season then at some point went really droopy and before i could do anything, started rotting from the middle – leaves turned to mush and started coming off with no force applied, the stem itself was very soft and also rotten. I tried looking for a non-mushy leaf to at least propagate it, but they're all kinda same, albeit some of them still have some healthy part left. My question is what caused this so I can avoid it in the future and is there any way to propagate from the non-completely healthy leaves?
by M_Artifex
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It looks like it froze. They store water in their leaves & when they get too cold, the water freezes. When it starts to thaw, the cells burst.
You can’t save this
Sorry!!
Looks like stem rot, gone from the inside out. If any of the leaves are still solid with no damage you can try to propagate those
What is your soil and watering routine? This was overwatering / soil staying too wet causing stem rot imo. Probably not having enough light made it more likely too.
They don’t grow in the winter, don’t water them.
Oh, it wasn’t sudden, takes a long time for them to rot tbh. I’m sorry for your loss. If you want to avoid it in the future get a well draining pot, proper SUCCULENT or CACTUS soil with added grit! And it’ll need good lighting too. Succulents aren’t beginner plants, unfortunately:/
This will happen if the soil stays wet for too long, no matter how seldom it is watered.