What is wrong with my plants?

[dearydeary]

Hi everyone

My DD has given me these to 'save' (they came from her flat) Any ideas?

Any advice would be gratefully received 😊

rotting through overwatering?

If overwatering continues, you'll notice that the leaves will start to turn brown or black. Once this begins to happen, it means that your succulent is either rotting or suffering from a fungal disease caused by too much water.

Thanks IUnderstandTheWeird

I did wonder if it was overwatering, can we reverse it?

Yes, looks like overwatering.
I would take the plants out of the pots, gently peel away or cut off all the dead looking leaves.
Leave it to dry for a day or 2 and then repot, but if possible mix grit or stones in with the soil, so the roots are not sitting in damp soil.

The one on the right looks too far gone. The left might lose the bottom leaves to rot, let the soil dry out completely.

efesight

I will give it a try 😉

Looking again, the plant on the right might be beyond saving. You could try just saving what you can, which might just be little more than roots anyway.

They are both forms of Echeverias agavoides. These are succulent plants, and don’t need watering too often. I think the right one is too far gone, but the left one might survive. They need a gritty well drained potting mix, without too much organic matter, and watered sparingly. Unpot the left one and remove rotted bottom leaves, and check the root system, repotting in a gritty mixture, then wait a week before any further watering. They also need as much light as possible to prevent etiolate on (stretching for light).

Nanthewiser

Thanks for your advice

I have repotted the green one (agree the other was too far gone ☹️)

What gritty mix? ( I repotted this afternoon, having dried it out, do I add grit?)

NanTheWiser

Apologies here is a pic

@dearydeary a gritty mix usually means potting compost with extra grit added (about 50%), not neat compost. John Innes (a soil based compost) is best, but there are so-called “Cactus” composts available which would do at a pinch with extra grit added. You can buy small bags of potting grit in most garden centres, or even aquarium grit, but understandably you may not want o go to these lengths for just one plant! Just don’t water too often, wait until the pot is dry.

NanTheWiser

Thanks 😊

I have been in the shed this morning and found some horticultural grit which must have been purchased for my olive trees a couple of years ago.

Thank you everyone.