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If I could offer few suggestions...first of all, they could have been either very dry or very wet?

Repotting was a good idea, but the bagged Cactus & Succulent soil is usually not as well draining as advertised. Fast and inexpensive way of improving it would be getting a bag of perlite (if you have pumice, that would be good instead of perlite). Sift or at least rinse it using kitchen type strainer, to get rid of dust and smallest particles. Mix at least 50/50 with C&S soil. You can use even more than half perlite, but try not to use less to get good drainage.

Same pots are big enough, just wash hem before re-using. Make sure all have good drainage holes.

Old soil should be taken off the root ball. Inspect the roots, cut off any dry, broken or very soft/mushy roots. If the plant was in wet soil, let it air dry on some newspaper or paper towels for a while. Pot up in improved mix and do not water for at least a day or so. I would put them under lights but perhaps increase distance to about a foot for few days; lowering lights closer gradually - every weak or so. Eventually, they could be much closer than they are now (6-8"?)

If any stems are soft and even mushy, they could be rotting. You should inspect all of them and if any rot, it needs to be cut off. Otherwise, it will just spread thruout the plant.

The mixed pot plants are bit difficult to ID, but the darkest one on right could be Kalanchoe tomentosa. In either case, they are all succulents and need just about same growing conditions.

Pot with sand in it is very large. Large container = too much soil and if poorly drained, it will take forever to dry up. Sand, if too fine, could easily clog up drainage and most of us do not use it a all. Bigger particles are better for making well draining mix.

The 'single stem plant' is likely Portulacaria afra (not Portulaca). It looks dead to me, but can't really see it well enough to be sure.

Would you mind to indicate your general location and/or growing zone? It is best to add that info next to your name - helps to give better suggestions...

Rina thank you! Will re-repot. Also thank you for the information re: sand, I wondered why no one used it - I grow root vegetables so I just had a bag.

Sandy soil is good for root veggies :)

Thank you for adding your location! Obviously, all these need to be indoors and good that you are adding some supplemental lights. Good luck with repotting and hopefully they will survive - at least most :)
If there is no rot, I would let plants to recuperate before propagating leaves. But if any look like they are on 'the last leg', it would be good idea to take off leaves. I would just set them on top of mix, or they can be inserted in just a bit. Do not water until roots start growing. Depending on type of plant and health of the leaf, that could be few days or much longer. Graptoes usually propagate quite easily from the leaves. Portulacaria afra could be 'finicky' for some ppl.

Post a follow up and any q you may have...

I want to see how they do in the future. So im bumping this thread. Good luck!

Hey all! Thanks for the interest in this thread, I repotted as per Rina's advice. Pictures below in case anyone's interested or has feedback.

I rinsed the clinging dirt off the first one, which may have been "Graptosedum Ghosty" - the first time I repotted these some of the pots might have gotten switched around.

Repotted in 1 part cactus mix, 2 parts perlite and top-dressed with some rocks I had around.

Graptoveria Blue Pearl - I decided to try not rinsing the dirt off the rest of these. It seemed perilous and the filament roots seemed like they were in pretty good shape. Excuse the random piece of grass.

Graptosedum Vera Higgens:

Does anyone have feedback on that sunken spot? I was guessing some kind of water injury or a physical injury that's grown over, but I don't know from succulents yet!

Repotted. ... Man, I should probably just take that extra leaf off.

Graptopetalum Murasaki:

The sad little stem at the top actually had a tiny leaf bud that dropped off on its own, so I decided to leave that one on the top of the soil and throw that stem away, since I had others.

Random buds! These were unlabeled.

(Whaaat is that one on the right, it's adorable. Black prince echevaria, do you think? The one on the left is clearly a haworthia, right? Or am I not right?)

Ahhhh so cute

PART TWO, apparently: the big mixed dish planter:

I'm pretty sure that the fuzzy ones were chocolate soldier kalanchoes, and wow was one of them in bad condition:

Not only were some of these falling off the plant (I'm guessing some kind of decay?) but some of them were glued to the original pot, which wasn't super helpful! There were still little root-starts on the tiniest stem that was left over, though, so I replanted it.

That echevaria is kind of stealing the limelight here - what are the pointy fleshy-leaved ones, do you think? And should I worry that one of them is so deflated?

They're all repotted, not watered, and put back in their sunny window under the CFLs - now all I have to do is not bother them for a week, and then I'll report back.

I admire your dedication. And your improved soil mix looks good.

An update and a question!

Here's my pals two weeks after repotting. I waited 8 days to water (on the 30th) and confirmed that they were dry to the bottom with a chopstick.

I'm getting a LOT of yellow, creased bottom leaves like this one:

I'm pinching them off as they occur (and throwing them on top of some grit for the science experiment of whether they'll pup).

It seems like there might be several things at work, right?

- The roots might not be established yet and might not be getting enough water to the leaves (in which case I should definitely leave the plants alone and let the roots establish)

- The roots might have rot issues (in which case I should unpot, right?)

- The plants might not be getting watered often enough (about every 8 days, fully dry in between)

- The soil mix might not be drying fast enough (it's dry in here and the plants are in a spot with air movement, but I wasn't very careful about particle size when I repotted and there's some finer grit and pumice in there).

- Sun?? Maybe?? It's been overcast intermittently here; this window gets about 10 - 3 pm sunlight on a good day. The lights I have on them are about 2400 lumens about a foot up, which I suspect is more "better than nothing" than "sufficient for desert plants". It seems like I mostly see problems on here with succulents getting leggy from low sun, though, not creasing/browning.

Any thoughts? I'm really enjoying this project, and I've loved reading peoples' posts here!

Everything looks fine. When you see one or two leaves at the very bottom get dry and wrinkled like yours and this it's totally normal.

Whenever you see soggy, plump, yellow leaves drop off something is wrong.

It's winter so growth slows down, but on your plants they still are movin and groovin;). Just a little slower.

This E. 'Lola' I had to behead a couple months ago because it was slightly etiolated. It's growin just not as quick. Steady and slow.

For your plants the worst is over they survived the repotting. That's a lot of stress on a plant. Especially when they were in the shape yours were in;).

Stop yourself from watering too much and babying them. I'm not saying you're doing this. Just stop the urge when you feel it and keep doing what you're doing;).

And leave the yellowing leaves alone until they dry up .... unless they are soggy. The plants still have use for them as a water and nutrient reservoir. Once the plant has drained them, they will dry up and fall off easily.

yes, leave them alone! The plant will decide when it's time to get rid of a leaf! If it's still there, the plant's still using it.