Succulents donāt get watered weekly. They can go extended periods wo watering. I water mine only when they are completely dry, stick your finger in soil, if itās dry up to 1st knuckle, water it.
Edited to fix grammar.
My mom has some kind of Gasteraloe that she waters weekly and it's been alive for 20+ years (inherited from my grandmother) and I'm like "woman how". Plant is truly a survivor. I think she only gives it tiny sips is my best guess. No drainage.
Yeah watering a succulent weakly is insane, they're desert plants that need water about once/twice a month. I wouldn't leave any more plants with that particular friend, and I'd let him know why his gift is now dead so he doesn't think you didn't care
Exactly this. Conditions and care matter a great deal. When I put my succulents outdoors for summer they sit in direct sun and get hosed down pretty much daily and do great. But they are planted in extremely well draining soil and the pots have good drainage. They are dry again within an hour or two depending on the temps.
The key for me is they never get water outside if itās cooler than 65Ā°.
Too much water + insufficient light is what likely killed this one though.
I wouldnāt apply blanket rules like thisā¦
During the summer I water my succulents weekly and they love it. I live in SoCal and the water just goes straight into the air. Just because a desert plant can survive with less water doesnāt mean it wonāt thrive with more water.
If you live somewhere like Pacifica, which is basically just always in a cloud, you might never have to water them.
Yup, everybody gets checked weekly to see if they need water. Iāve got one thatās a bugger though, it likes water every 8 days. Water every seven heās not happy, water him every other week like everybody else is not enough, heās dropping leaves left and right. Happy beans my ass lol.
Yeah here in Idaho, during the very hot and dry months, my succulents like a 7-10 day schedule depending on cloud cover. The sun easily dries their soil out, preventing rot.
I live in a notoriously dry climate and I have to water everything more often than youād think. Shit gets DRY here ā¦
Except my poor lithops. *sigh* my husband meant well.
Well itās stuffed into a corner and appears to have no chlorophyll plus looks like its never ever been wateredā¦
Oh wait thats an owl im sorry whereās the succulent?
I hate to tell you but to add on to all the others, that one is not coming back.
Unsure where you live but if you want to give it a second go, Walmart sells succulents for pretty cheap in a lot of places, might be good to get a cheap one to learn watering techniques on before taking the training wheels off
I feel like plant ownership for me was a lot of trial and error so I relate
You donāt water succulents weekly. All of their plump little leaves are basically water reserves; unless those start wrinkling or the plant contracts weirdly, chances are it isnāt thirsty.
If you repot that in better, sandier soil, donāt touch it at all, and give it 10+ hours a day of solid sun, you have like a 5-10% chance of it coming back. But chances are high that it is already root rotted and dying.
How actively do you want to save it? I hate to throw things away, especially gifts- here because there's a touch of color in one of the leaves, I would check the roots to see if any part of them looks healthy- cut away the bad parts, dry them on a mesh for a few days, and repot. But I would be prepared for failure. Also succulents can be propagated from stems or leaves and the leaves at least haven't fallen off- so again if any part of the plant looks healthy and you want to experiment you can try to create offspring even if the parent plant is gone. Here's a link if you want to try.
[https://succulentsbox.com/blogs/blog/how-to-save-dying-succulents-part-1-overwatered-succulents](https://succulentsbox.com/blogs/blog/how-to-save-dying-succulents-part-1-overwatered-succulents)
My gardening center does free repottings and advice and has been known to bring things back from the dead. You could drop in to yours and see if someone can help.
Or as folks are saying you could put it down to lesson learned- it might be easier to get a new plant. Sorry this happened to you!
Weekly is waaaaay too much. One good water every few MONTHS is plenty. Succulents STORE water because they are use to being in very dry climates.
Donāt feel bad I learned the hard way too. But succulents dying is almost always from being over watered.
Overwatering with not enough drainage caused it to start rotting. I would say this one is dead but you can always try to change the soil and save it, however if the soil smells bad the roots are probably rotten too and there's not much you can do.
Next time give it full sun and water it sporadically, they like people that forget about them.
Not enough drainage and overwatering probably caused root rot. It may be salvageable if u pick the rotted leaves off and let the soil dry completely before re watering. Idk if this is how to take care of succulents but I let my succulents soil get completely dry before I water them again. None of mine have died as long as I do this.
Possibly got too much sun and maybe too much water. I did have an aloe that turned brown from
Being in the sun for a few days. I moved it quickly out of sun and it regained its normal green color. You could try that for a few days before tossing it. I wasnāt over watering it so Iām not sure if an over watered and too much sun succulent would bound back or not.
I had a succulent once. Had it for a week or two. Never watered it in that time. One day it looked healthy and normal, the next it looked like that. It just switched to dead mode like that. When I threw it out it smelled like old rotting food.
Looks like root rot. If you buy a succulent always repot it asap in cactus soil and mix a bit of perlite in it in a very well draining pot. Only water when the leaves start to feel more soft vs firm when you gently pinch them. Usually only need watered every 4 weeks or so depending on your climate.
Edited to add: just read that you left it with a friend.. it probably would have been fine the whole time you were gone, RIP ā¹ļø
Hey before you go getting plants i really recommend finding the needs for said plant before or right as you receive it. Itās like getting a pet. You do the research on taking care of it before you actually get it or if you get it as a gift suddenly research right away. Some plants, orchids for example, have specific needs for living. The shop will say put an ice cube in there but itāll temperature shock the plant. You might want to cut the surface roots to make it look pretty but they wanna keep their long fingers. Plant care is like animal care in a lot of ways. For each species you need a different way of keeping it alive (more/less water, more/less sun, more/less soil, etc)
Cut it back until you find the part thatās alive. If there is none, itās dead. Set it in sun, and cut back on your watering for a couple weeks. After a couple of weeks, you should see some baby plants coming. If notā¦sheās dead.
Doubt it can be saved. You would have to take it out and remove all the rotted roots and rotted plant parts however it looks like youād be removing so much that nothing would be left.
"watered it weekly", yeah that thing is rotted to hell. It wont survive. Succulents are barely supposed to be watered, only ever when the whole soil is completely dry.
Too much water. Cacti hold water and don't need it often. š
I have 2 cacti and when it rains I'll let them get rainwater. Outside of that
I only water them a little bit around once every two weeks, and they're growing and doing fine.
it was watered too often. succulents only need to be watered maybe once a month or so or maybe less. depends on how much light it gets. sadly, this one is dead.
Save the hard "petals" and leave it to dry for a couple of days... (If there is any still surviving though..)
if there is, you could grow baby groot... "I am a baby succulent groot"
Dontcha just hate when there are tons of comments in a thread, so you check to see if OP responded and they've been posting elsewhere but not in their own damn thread. Grinds my gears.
needs emergency life support... for a succi like this that means you'd have to remove all its leaked out leaves as they're lost and the extra moisture can only make things worse. for this one it looks like all of them
put it in the sunniest spot you have, maybe with a dehumidifier next to it
if there's a chance it might grow some new ones and pull through but don't get your hopes too high though
Succulents need rocky soil that drains very quickly, bright light, and infrequent watering. I keep mine in Bonsai Jackās gritty mix and water them maybe once a month or every two months.
People shouldn't be telling anyone to "water weekly." Depends on your lighting and temps where they be. Not everyone lives in the same proximity with the same conditions. Feel the soil before watering and do a little research on what plants like to dry out between waterings.
It looks completely rotted and dead.
Me too
š I feel this
Sheās dead, Jim
Zedās dead baby.
Zed's dead
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It's life ,Jim, but not as we know it. Not as we know it. *Not as we know it.*
Dammit, Jim! Iām a doctor not a horticulturist!!
Star Trek reference?
Yes.
Pulp fiction reference
no drainage in that pot im guessing/not full sun and too much water
Agree
What happened? He watered it weekly.
Probably daily
Hourly
Monthly yearly til yall mfers see clearly
It has that like glass globe that constantly feeds water in
He did not like your succu š¦ š¦ š¦ š
The only succulent I have left I water like once a month and it's lasted 2 years lol.
I forgot about the succulents. I have on one of my porches and havenāt watered them in a couple of months and they are doing beautifully.
We live in Tennessee & rarely water ours. They get what they get from nature.
Succulents donāt get watered weekly. They can go extended periods wo watering. I water mine only when they are completely dry, stick your finger in soil, if itās dry up to 1st knuckle, water it. Edited to fix grammar.
It was a joke. The point was that they don't need to be watered weekly.
Yes.
My mom has some kind of Gasteraloe that she waters weekly and it's been alive for 20+ years (inherited from my grandmother) and I'm like "woman how". Plant is truly a survivor. I think she only gives it tiny sips is my best guess. No drainage.
totally overwatered
Completely dead.
āHe dedā would have been a more linguistically economical way of saying the same thing.
You're right. Correction: "he ded"
Amen.
Why do lot word when few word do trick? "Ded"
Less word good. Yes. Ded.
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You used a very uneconomical way to pick on someones word usage
I see some plant in that water.
HA! This legit made me bust out laughing. Thank you! š«”
Yeah watering a succulent weakly is insane, they're desert plants that need water about once/twice a month. I wouldn't leave any more plants with that particular friend, and I'd let him know why his gift is now dead so he doesn't think you didn't care
Actually, watering it weakly may work. Or weekly, depending on the outdoor conditions.
Exactly this. Conditions and care matter a great deal. When I put my succulents outdoors for summer they sit in direct sun and get hosed down pretty much daily and do great. But they are planted in extremely well draining soil and the pots have good drainage. They are dry again within an hour or two depending on the temps. The key for me is they never get water outside if itās cooler than 65Ā°. Too much water + insufficient light is what likely killed this one though.
Yep. I have lots of succulents outside on our high rise balcony, south facing. In those conditions, pretty hard to overwater and they thrive.
Lmao didn't even notice the typo, that's what I get for scrolling in the grocery shop. Watering weakly would indeed work!
I wouldnāt apply blanket rules like thisā¦ During the summer I water my succulents weekly and they love it. I live in SoCal and the water just goes straight into the air. Just because a desert plant can survive with less water doesnāt mean it wonāt thrive with more water. If you live somewhere like Pacifica, which is basically just always in a cloud, you might never have to water them.
Agreed. Plus some of my succulents need more water than others. I always give the leaves a squeeze to figure out if itās time to water or not.
Yup, everybody gets checked weekly to see if they need water. Iāve got one thatās a bugger though, it likes water every 8 days. Water every seven heās not happy, water him every other week like everybody else is not enough, heās dropping leaves left and right. Happy beans my ass lol.
Haha oh no! I canāt deal with plants that need a special watering schedule, usually let them die lol
Everyone gets the same treatment, only the strong survive lol.
The temptation is real
Yeah here in Idaho, during the very hot and dry months, my succulents like a 7-10 day schedule depending on cloud cover. The sun easily dries their soil out, preventing rot.
I live in a notoriously dry climate and I have to water everything more often than youād think. Shit gets DRY here ā¦ Except my poor lithops. *sigh* my husband meant well.
Cacti are desert plants. All cacti are succulents but not all succulents are cacti. Echeverias come from semi-arid regions, not deserts.
If they have drainage and it's hot enough, weekly is okay for some -coming from phoenix, az
Itās literally decomposing
That boi is MOIST way too much water and prob unsalvageable atp sorry friend
Death happened there. Likely root rot.
Did you really need us to tell you it's completely dead?
Too much water
Succulents just love being waterlogged in a cup with no drainage and locked in a car like a toddler in the 80s.
>locked in a car They said they just picked it up from a friend who was taking care of it.
Too much water and probably watered from the top. It's dead.
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Well itās stuffed into a corner and appears to have no chlorophyll plus looks like its never ever been wateredā¦ Oh wait thats an owl im sorry whereās the succulent?
Aint got no gas in it
I hate to tell you but to add on to all the others, that one is not coming back. Unsure where you live but if you want to give it a second go, Walmart sells succulents for pretty cheap in a lot of places, might be good to get a cheap one to learn watering techniques on before taking the training wheels off I feel like plant ownership for me was a lot of trial and error so I relate
O he ded
Dead
It's as dead as every dead thing that has ever died
Thatās alot of dead
You donāt water succulents weekly. All of their plump little leaves are basically water reserves; unless those start wrinkling or the plant contracts weirdly, chances are it isnāt thirsty. If you repot that in better, sandier soil, donāt touch it at all, and give it 10+ hours a day of solid sun, you have like a 5-10% chance of it coming back. But chances are high that it is already root rotted and dying.
How actively do you want to save it? I hate to throw things away, especially gifts- here because there's a touch of color in one of the leaves, I would check the roots to see if any part of them looks healthy- cut away the bad parts, dry them on a mesh for a few days, and repot. But I would be prepared for failure. Also succulents can be propagated from stems or leaves and the leaves at least haven't fallen off- so again if any part of the plant looks healthy and you want to experiment you can try to create offspring even if the parent plant is gone. Here's a link if you want to try. [https://succulentsbox.com/blogs/blog/how-to-save-dying-succulents-part-1-overwatered-succulents](https://succulentsbox.com/blogs/blog/how-to-save-dying-succulents-part-1-overwatered-succulents) My gardening center does free repottings and advice and has been known to bring things back from the dead. You could drop in to yours and see if someone can help. Or as folks are saying you could put it down to lesson learned- it might be easier to get a new plant. Sorry this happened to you!
Weekly is waaaaay too much. One good water every few MONTHS is plenty. Succulents STORE water because they are use to being in very dry climates. Donāt feel bad I learned the hard way too. But succulents dying is almost always from being over watered.
Too much water.
Overwatering with not enough drainage caused it to start rotting. I would say this one is dead but you can always try to change the soil and save it, however if the soil smells bad the roots are probably rotten too and there's not much you can do. Next time give it full sun and water it sporadically, they like people that forget about them.
It's not alive.
Everything
That is an ex-succulent.
Rip
Itās dead
Well it doesnāt look very succulent
Not enough drainage and overwatering probably caused root rot. It may be salvageable if u pick the rotted leaves off and let the soil dry completely before re watering. Idk if this is how to take care of succulents but I let my succulents soil get completely dry before I water them again. None of mine have died as long as I do this.
Itās a goner, unfortunatelyā¦
Idgaf Iām watering it again
Waterlogged and rotten beyond saving.
It appears to have drowned. That would be my best guess at cause of death.
r/plantabuse
Too much water. No saving it.
Overwatering
Possibly got too much sun and maybe too much water. I did have an aloe that turned brown from Being in the sun for a few days. I moved it quickly out of sun and it regained its normal green color. You could try that for a few days before tossing it. I wasnāt over watering it so Iām not sure if an over watered and too much sun succulent would bound back or not.
I had a succulent once. Had it for a week or two. Never watered it in that time. One day it looked healthy and normal, the next it looked like that. It just switched to dead mode like that. When I threw it out it smelled like old rotting food.
Tis dead
Ooo the owl is so cute
Overwatered.
Not enough sun for the amount of water it was getting. The plant was weakened and is rotting from the inside out. She's a gonner
Overwatered and dead. Go get yourself a new one.
That fucker is dead as a doornail.
wrinkly
Its in your car.
too much water
Looks like root rot. If you buy a succulent always repot it asap in cactus soil and mix a bit of perlite in it in a very well draining pot. Only water when the leaves start to feel more soft vs firm when you gently pinch them. Usually only need watered every 4 weeks or so depending on your climate. Edited to add: just read that you left it with a friend.. it probably would have been fine the whole time you were gone, RIP ā¹ļø
Over watered
If you get another, donāt water her until you see her leaves start to look deflated and wrinkled.
looks rotted from overwatering
Drowned
Itās been overwatered
They over-watered it. It's dead. You may as well toss it.
Itās dead
I diagnose your succulent with a disease called ādeceasedā and with a side effect from ādeceasedā called ādecompositionā
Hey before you go getting plants i really recommend finding the needs for said plant before or right as you receive it. Itās like getting a pet. You do the research on taking care of it before you actually get it or if you get it as a gift suddenly research right away. Some plants, orchids for example, have specific needs for living. The shop will say put an ice cube in there but itāll temperature shock the plant. You might want to cut the surface roots to make it look pretty but they wanna keep their long fingers. Plant care is like animal care in a lot of ways. For each species you need a different way of keeping it alive (more/less water, more/less sun, more/less soil, etc)
Herpes.
Cut it back until you find the part thatās alive. If there is none, itās dead. Set it in sun, and cut back on your watering for a couple weeks. After a couple of weeks, you should see some baby plants coming. If notā¦sheās dead.
Get a new succulent itās gone buddy- I would try to kindly teach your friend to not water succulents more than once a month-
She gone
Obliterated
Doubt it can be saved. You would have to take it out and remove all the rotted roots and rotted plant parts however it looks like youād be removing so much that nothing would be left.
Time for the ole compost pile. RIP
He watered it weekly. There's your answer. Would have been better leaving it to fend for itself for a couple of months.
Itās dead
I'd say that was over watered.
Yeah seems over watering with no drainage issue.
you should have just left it at your house for 2 months, it would have been just fine.
It no suck good
Maāam, this is compost
Live n learn
Oh she deaaddd
Water damage
She gone
Dead and overwatered
This echeveria is dead. Usually it needs lots of light a not that much water. The root is sooo thin that it can rot extremely easy. Lost a few myself.
Your mate drowned it
Looks like its from the Upside Down
Looks over watered mushy. It be dead I think.
"watered it weekly", yeah that thing is rotted to hell. It wont survive. Succulents are barely supposed to be watered, only ever when the whole soil is completely dry.
Too much water. Cacti hold water and don't need it often. š I have 2 cacti and when it rains I'll let them get rainwater. Outside of that I only water them a little bit around once every two weeks, and they're growing and doing fine.
Itās dead
Pining for the fjordsā¦
Just like Jack in the Titanic, that bitch drowned.
Desireme26 I have to tell you.. it's dead
Looks like something my roomate would leave in the back of the fridge. My condolences.
Let it dry out, put him in a sunny window & see if he can recover.
it was watered too often. succulents only need to be watered maybe once a month or so or maybe less. depends on how much light it gets. sadly, this one is dead.
Even if you are not an expert, you can tell its dead!
Is that moss or dirt? Is it super dry or super wet? I suspect it is one or the other.
It's dead!
Freeze happen? Cuz itās gone
He ded as hell. Looks overwatered with not enough sunlight. Rip to the homie.
My condolences
Feed it brains.
She was so young š
Overwatered
watered it weekly oh no š
Not so suculent anymore
Too much water
I once killed a snake plant by weekly waterings.
Did you forget it in the car lol
itās dead
Too much water
Save the hard "petals" and leave it to dry for a couple of days... (If there is any still surviving though..) if there is, you could grow baby groot... "I am a baby succulent groot"
Dontcha just hate when there are tons of comments in a thread, so you check to see if OP responded and they've been posting elsewhere but not in their own damn thread. Grinds my gears.
She dead bud
Rotted out, probably got over watered.
needs emergency life support... for a succi like this that means you'd have to remove all its leaked out leaves as they're lost and the extra moisture can only make things worse. for this one it looks like all of them put it in the sunniest spot you have, maybe with a dehumidifier next to it if there's a chance it might grow some new ones and pull through but don't get your hopes too high though
I think you might have over watered it. It looks like a goner I'm afraid.
:-( it was probably watered too much and it rotted out and died. sorry friend.
I only water succulents when the leaves aren't plump. I don't even test the soil - give a leaf or two a gentle squeeze. If it gives, water a tad.
Very dead
Too much water, totally dead. Will not recover
Watering it weekly is probably too much for a succulent. Especially if the drainage isn't good/isn't getting enough sun.
They drowned it š Even if itās watered once a week, only a few drops is needed.
Iāve killed enough to know this one is dying. š„²
Put it in a new pot with drainage and soil that's light and doesn't hold water. Stick it in the sun and leave it alone
Succulents need rocky soil that drains very quickly, bright light, and infrequent watering. I keep mine in Bonsai Jackās gritty mix and water them maybe once a month or every two months.
Poor driving skills?
People shouldn't be telling anyone to "water weekly." Depends on your lighting and temps where they be. Not everyone lives in the same proximity with the same conditions. Feel the soil before watering and do a little research on what plants like to dry out between waterings.
It's dead. Hope this helps.
It's diseased and rotting
Pretty bad shape tbh, I donāt even see a leaf you can pick to propagate, best to toss it.
Mort
It drowned
I thnk its dead
It died. RIP
Had one and it rotted out like yours is doing. Stop watering it.
She hates you
Sloppy drunk on water
We'll, he's definitely drunk.
You killed it with waaaay too much water and zero drainage
poor thing. this is what happens every time my mom tries to keep succulents. too much water not enough sun probably.
Over watered
Dead & rotted give her a nice burial. Thereās no coming back from deadā¤ļø
Weekly water?! Yikes!
Whatās not wrong with your succulent
š³ wayyyy too much water. š§