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What to do with Black spots on my Echeveria

8 years ago

Hi! I'm a newbie at gardening- started only 2 weeks ago with a couple of succulents. One of my echeverias developed black spots on a few leaves and I'm wondering what I should do with it. I suspect it was because I watered it and it had droplets of water on the leaves and then I put it out on the porch to get some sunlight thinking desert plants want direct sun :-/ I have since learned from research that it is not good for them to have direct sunlight and have moved them to a part of my house I call the "sun room" that has a transparent roof and gets only morning sun. But I don't know if I should just leave the black spots on the leaves and wait for it to shed out? Or should I cut them off? And is the dark spots because of the sun or because of the water droplets? Right now I water them once a week, and will wait for the soil to dry out. I live in the Philippines and is humid here but very very warm in the summer. 41 degrees celsius warm. Thank you in advance. I'm so grateful there is a forum like this to help out newbies like me :-)

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8 years ago
And is the dark spots because of the sun or because of the water droplets?

Probably not--what you will have to be attentive to is watering--because you live in a very warm and humid climate, you will need to water very, very sparingly. Echeverias come from areas of low humidity, and you have high humidity. Because of your high humidity, they won't need much water. Make sure your plants are in a very free-draining gritty mix, and be very careful about watering them. When you do, keep water off the foliage. The plant can grow out of the spotted foliage eventually.
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