Hi Nicole,

Sorry you're having a problem w/ them, it's likely a combination of poor soil & bad drainage.

I keep mine active all year long & am in NYC w/ cold winters & indoor heat. I manage them fine w/ fast draining soil & pebble trays.

Don't know what soils you can get where you are (where?) but we often recommend Cactus & Succulent Soil & Perlite or Pumice, mixed equal parts of each. That ensures fast drainage. I water every 7-10 days more or less depending on weather conditions & temps near my windows which I always keep open a little bit.

Mine doesn't always bloom, but usually has tubers (those white balls), like baby bulbs from which you can root or re-start them. I see yours has some tubers, so I'd correct your soil & plant them again, just barely covered in fresh, fast draining soil. That should help restart them.

Mine gets bright, indirect light in west windows.

See how your soil is pulling away from the sides of your pot? That suggests very peaty soil content & parts of the rootball may be dry inside or unevenly moist, causing the leaf & stem die back you're seeing.

I'd suggest crumbling that rootball apart w/ your fingers & replanting the tubers you're likely to find in the rootball, if they're still firm to the touch & white.

Hi Karen,

Many thanks for your feedback. I’m in Berlin, Germany. I’ve now done as you suggested and repotted the plant, with a layer of clay granules for drainage followed by cacti/succulent soil. I found one strand of the white tubers you mentioned and have planted this, covered by soil.

However I am confused since now there is only one strand that is actually planted in the soil, the rest of the plant just seems to be hanging onto this strand (see photos). How does it work? Do I need to remove the rest of the strands which aren’t “attached”?

If anyone else has some feedback, I’d also appreciate it

Its to late now since you've already repotted it, but you should have used a smaller pot with good drainage, adding clay for drainage still keeps water in the bottom of the pot, any strands that arent in soil I'd remove them, I'd also find a way of propping up the plant since all thats hanging is putting a strain on the roots.

I didn't realize you'd pot it back into such a large pot, when there was so little plant material. I should have cautioned against that. Pebbles on the bottom don't help drainage unfortunately, next time, I'd remove them all. Switch to small terra cotta pot if you tend to overwater.

The foliage, if dry & crunchy, it's dead, can be removed as those leaves won't recover. Pick thru the foliage, any live stems can be placed in small cup w/ an inch of water to re-root.

Sorry but CLAY granules is a bad thing to do, it HOLDS water down in the lower soil which is NOT what succulents want. Pls. stop doing this as it's likely to kill any succulents treated like this.

Pls undo this now, lest you rot the remaining tubers, they're only supposed to be barely under the soil up top at the very top of the soil, not deeply buried in wet soil.