Bought this last week in good condition, repotted into su...
2ft to light, indirect
4” pot with drainage
Last watered 2 months ago
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Good call on the terracotta pot and succulent soil! I've found when repotting rosette succulents, try to leave a gap between the soil and the lowest set of leaves. Even when watering correctly, the bottom leaves come into direct contact with damp soil and can end up looking like this. Just make a mound on top of the soil and plant it slightly higher up in the pot. For now, I'd go ahead and remove the lower leaves that are damaged. It might leave it looking a bit sparse, but eventually it will grow in.
@EminentKoa44 another thing, make sure your ghost plant is getting DIRECT sunlight. Insufficient light can also contribute to overwatering since light helps the soil dry out faster.
There is too much water in the new soil relative to the amount that was already in it prior to the repot. It is pretty significantly overpotted (it belongs in something half that size), so there is way too much moisture in there that it isn’t being enough to use as quickly as it would need to in order to stave off rot.
I would dump everything out onto a plate (loosen up and spread out the soil so both soil and plant are getting airflow) and let it dry out, then put everything back into the pot with half that amount of soil when it’s looking happier/drier.
The advice for the future would be to wait to repot until its leaves look a little dry, use a pot closer to the size of the root ball, and when you repot just initially put it in shallow soil (like an inch deep for that size), let it acclimate before slowly adding more soil over time (and watering sparingly — especially when you have so much more soil than plant).
I would dump everything out onto a plate (loosen up and spread out the soil so both soil and plant are getting airflow) and let it dry out, then put everything back into the pot with half that amount of soil when it’s looking happier/drier.
The advice for the future would be to wait to repot until its leaves look a little dry, use a pot closer to the size of the root ball, and when you repot just initially put it in shallow soil (like an inch deep for that size), let it acclimate before slowly adding more soil over time (and watering sparingly — especially when you have so much more soil than plant).
