Help save my episcia, please!
Firefly_Christina
20 years ago
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Comments (9)Sounds like you've lost the scion, and only the stock is growing. I ordered a small one through the mail awhile ago and it blighted off right after leafing out. While there are some examples that have been establishing in landscapes here (and I have seen the cultivar loaded with fruit while still in pots at a garden center) I have seen others with dieback problems. So you may have had bad luck and had yours get heavily infested and die or die back right after planting. Stone fruits in general are susceptible to multiple diseases and pests that may appear and spoil a planting. The general condition is for them to be fast-growing, short-lived trees that flower heavily from a young age and then die early. The normal habitat for the wild species is open, sunny recently disturbed or otherwise non-forested sites where they pop up early in the game and then die out as other trees come in and start to produce a different growing environment, with increased shade and decreased exposure....See MorePlease help me save my succulent!
Comments (5)I would first check if it is too wet: the reasons are that it has been only 1 week since you have it and you don't know how wet or dry it was kept before. Too wet is generally worse than dry. Containers without drainage holes keep water at the bottom for a long time. On top of that, 'soil' is covered by wet moss - another no no for succulents. It is used for decoration - but without any consideration for health of plants. Gravel would be more appropriate for plants that have originated in arid climates. OTOH, it could be dry if it wasn't watered or peat has become hydrophobic (peat is medium most often used by growers, so I am assuming that's what it is in). It would be best to take both plants out and repot into individual pots with proper drainage and into a fast draining mix. I can't ID your cactus, but other plant is Echeveria runyonii 'Topsy Turvy'. It definitely needs more light too. You can see leaves being too opened up in order to catch some more light. Try not to handle it too much by the leaves so protective coating doesn't rub off - not so easy while trying to repot or take off some offsets as you can see some marks on mine :)...See MorePlease help save my echeveria!
Comments (6)you have a lot of expectations for a plant you got a week ago ... and came bare root ... its stressed ... give it time to recover ... the oldest leaves will always show stress firt .. i like to think they are being sacrificed for the whole ... in your last pic.. none of the second layer of leaves looks impacted.. and i take that as a good sign ... i think you just need to give it a few weeks to settle in ... i would place it in bright but not direct sun until the roots settle [and perhaps dont open the window to give it stronger sun] .. and then move it to more sun ... and i would stop walking it all over the house.. lol .. all that said.. im not sure you did anything wrong.. except worry too much .... try not to love it to death ... it is stressed.. not hungry.. fert is not a response ... btw ... i clean out a pail.. and wet my media ... for any purpose or type ... in advance ... so the media has time to suck up water .. and actually wet ...so that watering at planting is simply to settle the media .... and not worry about overwatering.. which i doubt you did .... i do this now.. because prior.. i found that once the plant is in super dry media.. its hard to insure the media is actually wetting throughout .... if.. the second set of leaves starts having a problem... i might think about repotting with dampened media ... but thats a few weeks away .. ken ps: there is drainage in that pot.. right???...See MorePlease help save my lawn
Comments (11)Grubs can leave strong roots, but it seems unlikely that they're a problem. You can look online for videos on how to check, it involves removing a square foot and looking for the C-shaped grubs in the soil. Less than 10? No problem. 10 or more? Problem. Totally gross number (pardon the pun)? Big problem. Your climate indicates you very rarely freeze, and almost never see rain, highs from 70-90. I don't, per se, object to a very small lawn, but you might even want to think of a succulent or cactus (I'd go succulent to avoid the thorns!) and stone garden instead to be more compatible with the local climate. Tall fescue's fine for a transition zone lawn if you like it, and on the lower end of the water usage scale. This is the one case where I might recommend lower-end fescues like K-31. They're wider blade, not as attractive, but they don't require much water, aren't susceptible to many diseases or pests, and survive almost anything. If you prefer a finer grass, that's fine--it'll just need more water. Buffalo grass might do, but I'd need an expert to chime in on that as I'm not sure. If so, it's a prairie grass that requires very little water, roots deeply, and grows slowly....See MoreAfrican_Violet_Lady
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