I didn't look at the pics, but from your discription, it's rotten. Your soil mix is not ideal, nor is your practice of watering once a day. I had some failures with desert roses, due to the same reasons, although I never watered every day. The main thing is the potting mix. You MUST stay away from peat based mixes, as they hold too much water. Also, adding sand only adds to the perched water table by clogging the pores of the soil, thus making drainage worse.

Search up "gritty mix", and take in all you can. This is a mix of turface, pine or fir bark fines, and grit. Since I started using this stuff, things have been great. For my desert rose, which is small, in a 4" pot, I water probably once a week right now, and the gritty mix holds nowhere near the amount of water that a peat based mix does. The key is a fast draining soil, that gets plenty of oxygen, and the gritty mix fits the bill. Credit goes to Al (tapla), who is the brains behind the gritty mix.

Joe

I should not said I water o
nce a day but I water it when I poke my fingure in the pot and feel it was dry.

Let the cut areas dry and callous over. Change your soil to the "gritty mix" as Joe recommends. Then water sparingly. This type of plant need less water instead of more. Many people wait a day or two before they water after they've determined that the medium is dry.

Those are nice plants, but if you want to keep them you will have to make changes.

Trouble is with the finger poking test, you can water something once a day and the top of the soil can dry out within hours and give you a 'false test', the bottom however could still be constantly soaking wet....sounds like this is what has happened in your case, sadly. Mine get watered once a week if they're lucky during the warmer months. Also a soft caudex doesn't always indicate a need for water, more likely it says 'I've rotted and I'm dying'.

Get used to the weight of the potted plant and use that as a guide to its need for more water. Hope this helps.

Should I put cinammond powder over the cut to make it heal quicker

Cinnamon is used as an anti-fungus measure, and won't help or speed up the "healing" process. I'd leave it alone, but first and foremost, I'd get on the gritty mix thing, because you're going to need something to repot it in once it's all healed up. Just putting it back in a sub-par soil is going to have you right back in the same predicament.

Joe

I cant find most of the material for the gritty mix can I add perlite and rock chip, drill some more holes in my pot to increase the drainage

Thien,

Yes, that would be excellent - cover the holes with small pieces of screen so the soil won't clog the holes, too.

The ingredients for the gritty mix can tough, but if you put some time in, you'll find it. Turface MVP can be found at turf places; places that deal with and/or sell equipment/services dealing with anything turn related, like golf courses, school athletic fields, etc. If you live in an area with either of the two, then there is a place that fits the bill. You can also go to Napa, and get the floor dry stuff that is an equivilant. For the grit, I went to a local farm/big box store (Fleet Farm) and they had plenty of the #2 Cherrystone. Pine bark fines can be tricky. I bascially sent emails to ALL local garden centers and nursuries asking about it. I had it the next day. If you truly want to have good success, you're going to have to try & find this stuff. To reitterate the words of Al (tapla), simply trying to "improve" an already bad soil is futile. The small particles in the bagged soil will make it impossible to improve.

And yes, I agree that cutting some screen to put over the holes is a must. Aluminum screen works better then the plastic type.

Joe

Make sure to let it dry completely before you pot it again.
I hope it stay alive and bloom for you soon.
marie