Help! Succulent echeveria rosette - freeze damage!
Rachel Villarreal
6 years ago
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Echeveria help
Comments (2)be careful moving it outside into full sun from the shade. it will burn the leaves after just a day or two. either cover it or move it back and forth for a week to ten days slowly allowing more light. once or twice a week is far too often. let the soil dry, all the way between waterings. pictures would be helpful....See MoreEcheveria with stem- covering rosettes?
Comments (16)Minnie, You've a countrywoman who's gone to the next realm in terms of Echeverias, I think - if the bug's bitten you, Bev's the lady to talk with (you can send her an email by clicking her handle). And yes, removing that main rosette will result in pupping (just leave some stem for the new pups to form on) - your plant's going into summer less-growth-or-dormancy time soon, so behead it in the spring or wait until next fall (personally, I chop till I drop). Here is a link that might be useful: Ech Maniac Says It Subtly...See MorePurple dots on inner rosette of my Echeveria, help!
Comments (2)I don't see dots but I can see some darker spots on inside leaves in first photo - is that what you are referring? At worse it may be rot - but I really can't tell for sure from the photo. Not trying to give a lecture - and you found out the hard way - but leaving any plants in zipped-up GH is like keeping them in the oven - even without sun, temps are considerably higher and then there is humidity. High temps+humidity may have caused more problems than visible immediately - and you also say that you tend to over-water (I have been guilty of that too!) Well-draining potting mix is recommended for succulents. You should consider organic mix (grit, perlite, scoria, pumice...) without soil or very little soil (10-20% of total volume). If you over-water, gritty type medium will drain much faster. . The soil in your pots seems to be containing lots of peat - again, it is difficult to be sure looking at the photos. Please keep the plastic open - leaving only top on for rain protection (that's the only reason I would use any plastic during the summer - and I do sometimes, but never close it shut). Plants will need much more air circulation than closed-up GH offers, and you'll avoid cooking them. In their natural habitat, they are exposed to sun - wind - rain if it rains - without any protection. We have to adjust somehow growing them in very different climate, but one very important condition - good drainage - is probably easiest to replicate....See MoreSucculent ID request and closing rosette?
Comments (9)Long comment: It looks like it might be a Graptoveria 'Bashful'. As far as I know, there isn't another botanical name in there. The leaves do like to point up somewhat when getting the right light, but not like your after photo as laticauda mentioned. I've been trying to play around with a few I have grown from leaf cuttings to get the right amount of coloring so that it looks bashful and not embarrassed. It does have kind of a light green in the middle when healthy, but then should have good pink or red. I had mine in at least half day of sun last summer. Photo from a couple weeks ago of parent plant to the left, which I will probably behead (not enough light in fall and first half of winter), then three leaf cuttings that I'm trying to give more light, then one that was in full-on grow light from the beginning that was closed up here, but it's starting to open now. If you look at photos for sale by nurseries, or even compare it to your first photo, you can see I haven't hit the mark yet. After I got a grow light in the winter it got red very fast, then calmed down to the above photo, where it needs more light again. I think the key is gradually more light as the season comes on and then eventually some amount of sun, but I'm not sure how much. It's interesting to experiment with. Even if yours isn't the same plant, I would think the same rules should apply. Told you it was long....See Moreandreap
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