Help please! Echeveria Chroma leaves turning yellow and falling off
B Wood
4 years ago
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rina_Ontario,Canada 5a
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Comments (6)I don't see a real problem. On hot days the leaves will naturally curl and droop. That is entirely normal in the heat of the day. If they are droopy in the morning, then they are either dry or are dying because they were watered too much. Both conditions look the same at first. Being too wet is eventually fatal. The dead dry leaves look like leaves that are 2 or 3 years old and are being shed from older branches. That is normal and natural. Err on the side of not enough water. If they are dry in the morning, then water thoroughly. With a good mulch, watering is not needed too often. Cut off the bunch of 3 or so leaves that look like they are dying. That could be a borer or some other localized problem. It is best to remove it before it can affect the rest of the plant. Here is a link that might be useful: Common Problems and Their Solutions....See MoreDesert rose leaves turnning yellow and falling off
Comments (21)Often suggested is to look in older threads for information Old threads come back to surface ( like this one ) is probably the result of following a suggestion. Anyhoo ( & ironic) 2011( maybe 2010) was the Apx starting year that certain plants had separated from the C&S plant forum. Adenium being one of the plants that where relocated to a different area of the forum ( plant specific) has it's own topic full of threads that can be found by following this link. http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/adenium. Good luck...See MoreEcheveria's leaves turning yellow and falling off
Comments (12)@cari, yes, I will work on acclimating it so it doesn't get shocked. I use pebbles on top of most of my other plants and will do that here too. @rina, I don't know a ton about growing succulents and was trying to err on the side of not being too wet. (Most of my other plants are ferns that I water with mindless abandon and they couldn't be happier. I know succulents need to be treated differently.) I read that succulents absorb water through moisture in the air around their roots, which is why it was important to have coarse soil. Is that incorrect? Mostly I didn't think about it being difficult to rewet until Cari asked, and apparently I was somewhat overconcerned about accidentally drowning the plants. I plugged up the drainage hole last night and have it a long, slow watering to completely soak the soil, and then opened the hole again. Should the echeveria completely dry out until the soil is bone dry before I water again (provided it doesn't croak) or can it be watered when it's just a bit damp still? I was thinking of seeing how the plant does with more water before trying to repot. What are your thoughts? Here's a picture of the soil mix I used. The white bits are pumice. I'd say that picture makes it look like there's more pumice in the mix than there is (meaning more has settled toward the top), but there's definitely a lot more in this than there is vermiculite (I think) in "normal" potting soils. Also this is a pretty small bag, maybe a total of two gallons, just to give some scale to the size of the pieces. Thanks!!...See MoreLeaves are falling off my Echeveria
Comments (5)Get it out of the container; shake off all the soil from the roots, hopefully there are roots left. Let it dry on some newspaper or kit. towels. You need to check if the stalk/stem is firm. If it is very soft or mushy, there may not be any chance of plant surviving. Never use containers without drainage holes, and the potting mix should be grittier - fine soil (even cactus&succulent soil sold in bags) is very water retentive and plant sitting in that kind of soil usually rots rapidly. If you have only that kind of soil, buy a bag of perlite. It is best to sift the perlite to get rid of dust. Mixing perlite 50/50 with soil (could be more perlite), will help somehow. Soil should dry out between watering, but not only on surface but around the root ball....See MoreB Wood
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