photos please? - difficult to ID without seeing plants...

This is the first one;

Second and it's little baby

Third

And last

Any of of them would be fab, thank you!

Sorry I can't ID for you, but the 'coating', known as farina, will not regenerate, only new leaves will be covered entirely as long as you don't touch them that is. The mix looks very dark and peaty so if will hold water and rot the plants. What isthe mix please? Have all the pots got at least one drainage hole? The last one looks like aglass vase which isn't suitable at all for any plant...has it got a hole? Some, if not all are planted way too low down, the mix needs to be higher up the pot. Sorry to be negative but you have asked for help :-) others will help more shortly.

Gill

Hello! Oh dear that's a shame, guess marks/damage to it are to be expected when ordering plants in the post! It is E-coco cactus & succulent soil with some extra pumice added, what would you say is the best to use from your experience? All the pots your average thin plastic ones & have drainage holes (first two and last one have 10 small holes and third one has 7 or 8 'slots' but not holes), the one in the vase was bought yesterday so hopefully can fix that before any damage is done, I think they have potted it in a rigid plastic pot with holes and then put that inside the vase, would it be okay to keep as long as it's not directly potted into the vase or would you say avoid entirely? Thanks for the tip on porting higher up, will order some more soil (whichever one you think is best) and pot them up higher, thankyou so much! Loving the tips, hopefully I will have some very happy succulents eventually! :)

Also; the first plant and the last plant are still in original soil from where I bought them, only the middle two are currently repotted in to the one I mentioned :)

An Ideal mixture would be about 50% pumice and 50% soil (cactus and succulent soil).

If I purchased some more pumice could I use the soil I already have in the pots and just re-mix it? (It's cactus and succulent soil from amazon)

I am going to say yes, but it might be nice to have other opinions.

I am almost completely sure that third one is an echeveria subsesillis. Here's a picture of my own:

And the fourth one looks like and echeveria lilacina without the filter that this account used

Oh fantastic, in that case I'll just order some more pumice and get to work! Good news about the pot as I have a few others with cache pots too so I'll just take them out to breath in the day time while I'm out & after I've watered them & then put them back in for whilst I'm in the house! I'll try and pick up some more pots with holes instead of the slots or maybe see if I can make them into holes somehow

I'll have a good look and the Mexican giant and see if I can find anything, I've also messaged who I bought it from to see if they have any advice as it would seem it can't support itself at all, will have a look for rot too! It survived without any broken leaves but a lot of marring and looked like it had quite a rough time as it was shipped in its pot, the box was very much taller than the plant and also wider to accommodate the pot so it had obviously spent a lot of time flopping back and forward in transit and I imagine that some damage has been done, just need to work out what it is and what I can do!

thankyou so much for all your help!

Oh fantastic thankyou!! It looks identical in colour and shape to that one so I would assume it is! I'm so glad I found it, it was very small at the bottom of a stack of trays and I just spotted it as they were packing up for the night and thought it was cute and different amongst many green ones! think it only cost me £1 or £2! Let's hope I manage to keep it alive!

Would also agree with the second one, it's strange because I ordered a small one of those from surreal succulents and it's very closed up and has the yellow tint whereas the big one is all the greyish colour and very open in comparison!

thanks so much! Two down, two to go!