Beginner, beginner needing some help! 😅
Hi, this is Marilyn. Marilyn is a Blue Echeveria that I adopted about 3 years ago. Marilyn has grown and shrunk throughout our time together and now she looks more like the picture below. She isn’t looking great… 🥺 What can I do to help her?? A few things about her: she is in succulent soil, near a window but does not receive direct sunlight. I water her about once a week, but this app has told me to water every 2 weeks which I will begin doing now. TIA for your help!!
1ft to light, direct
8” pot with drainage
Last watered 5 days ago
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Best Answer
that’s probably the issue, echeverias need direct sun. the pot also looks too big for her, and with that organic of a soil mix i wouldn’t want to use a pot without drainage. i would unpot, check for root rot and put her in a smaller pot that has a drainage hole. maybe you can mix in some extra perlite/pumice in the soil too.
Great answer from Airi @strawberrymoon) 🥰 and my advice is the same! Get her out and check her over, repot her in a smaller pot (you can always move her back once she starts to consistently grow again... And not shrink any more lol 🤣) and move her into the brightest spot you can find 💚 my roblem with Succs is my house is very humid! Lol 🤣 but my tropicals love it... It's nice to have a plant that likes some full sun though! 🤭 So many of them are in the "bright, indirect" camp that I am LITERALLY out of space in my flat for that! Lmao 🤣🤣 please update us on a month or so and tell us how your getting on! 💚 Xx