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Donkeys tail help!

9 years ago

What's wrong with my succulent? I think it is a donkeys tail. I've had it for about 4 months and it was doing Great! Replanted it to a pot with a drainage h


ole and left it in direct sun for several hours for one day which it was not used to . I am not watering more than usual. Does it look overwatered? Underwatered? Some of the leaves look shriveled and they were not like this. Leaves are falling off. Soil is succulent and cactus mix and 50% perlite. Last watered a couple days ago after being in the sun. Soil is completely dry. Normally water once every two weeks and it looked great!!! What do you think?

Comments (7)

  • 9 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

    If you just repotted, the fine roots need time to grow back. Put it in less light for a week or two until it better responds and perks up to water. Then bring it slowly back to the normal light.

    When repotting, succulents usually look a little worse before looking better.

  • 9 years ago

    Agree.


  • 9 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

    Not sure if that is S. dasyphyllum major, leaves look too big - but rosettes look right! Is there anything you can put next to it for scale? I have S.d.m, it is in full sun but maybe yours was put in suddenly? If it have blooms, it may be much easier to ID.

    There is one stem in photo below that looks very similar to yours (bottom left):

    And here are the flowers:

    Pieces of branches brake off/fall off easily, and root, but not so much individual leaves. I'll take photo of both side-by-side to compare.

    It got more water than yours - but not because I watered but it has been raining a lot. I would say almost 2/week. Don't rush out to water yours, but if the soil drains well, maybe bit more often than 1/every 2 weeks.

    I don't know where you are - is it too hot? too humid? Pls. add the general location and/or growing zone to your name...

  • 9 years ago

    Here is the photo of Sedum dasyphyllum major and Sedum morganianum for size comparison:

  • 9 years ago

    Ok Rina it is definitely the smaller one Sedum dasyphyllum. Good to know!!! I had been keeping it in my sun room in bright light but not direct full sun all day. Right now it is summer here. 80's. Humid. I set it out there for a couple hours of sun and forgot about it it got about 6 hours full sun. I live in zone 5. Indiana.

  • 9 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

    uj

    It will do well outdoors - I am in similar zone and keep it outdoors. We had 89*F today, very sunny until almost 5pm - then a quite a rain for about 40min. Some dew is visible on the plant - I took photo this morning. Now it is soaked :). You just have to acclimatize it to more intense sun. As you can see, your plant is etiolated - bare stems with leaves far apart except the rosettes. It is bluish color (actually, both plants are as you can see in photo).

    Btw, it is supposed to be hardy to z5; I am not sure since I have seen it listed for z7 - but most say the colder. I am going to keep some of it outdoors this winter to see for sure.