Ive had this Echeveria agavoides planted in soil in 8a, and after a late hard frost the bottom leaves started turning suspiciously yellow and mushy. Ive decided to behead it to keep the hardier variety and it started producing offshoots from the stem. Could it be fully healthy and the lower leaves were just frost damaged?
by MatejGames
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Leaves don’t look rotten from what I can tell. Normally they turn black
What might have happened is that just the lower leaves experienced too much frost damage and rotted that way while the rest of the plant was fine. Neither leaves nor stem looks like it is rotting.
Even if it would be rotting, I can see that in some cases the plant will try to survive and might grow offsets before rot takes over everything. What sometimes happens also is that the plant drops most if not all off its leaves before the rot climbs up the stem from the inside.