Echeveria Harmsii

#echeveria #echeveria-harmsii #succulent-help #succulent #help It’s been steadily growing out of summer dormancy, now leaves are turning yellow/brown/green mix and hemorrhaging fluid. No pests, no temperature extremes, no overwatering, no sign of it being fungal or bacterial.

@lovestogarden Sending you an S.O.S 😇

The leaf on the extreme right looks like it has had frost on it. 🤔 You say no temperature extremes. Has the drainage hole become blocked? If it were mine, I would up root it and let it dry out with soil removed from all the roots. You may also chop the top as it looks good. If it is healthy, you may save a plant. Let's also ask @Muzz67 and @Yollymac for some ideas too. Can you help please.

Agreed, that’s exactly what it looks like. Same thing happens if it gets too hot (I accidentally killed a few branches when I bought it last year on the way home... forgot to turn off the heater vent it was next to in the car. But I brought all my plants in before our first frost. Was around 48F out when I did 12 days ago. It’s bone dry right now, it was due for it’s watering when I noticed it, a few more that haven’t fallen off look like they might turn. I may split the dirt and look inside it

and repot in fresh dirt just incase. I brushed the dirt off the stem and it looks really good. im confused for sure. @lovestogarden

You’re in summer now?

@Yollymac nope, autumn.

It looks like you figured out the cause and can stop the progress. Keep going, and good luck!

What was your summer temperatures? Was the plant in full sun?

@Yollymac High 90F’s, Sun till high noon, then shaded the rest of the day by a larger pot next too it. Wen’t dormant for the summer, stayed green and healthy, while dropping the lower leaves like summer dormants do. And started growing again very well in the fall till this. It’s still growing, but the lowest leaves are doing that for some reason. I think it may have been from the sudden shift to indoor temperatures after being out in cool early fall temperatures.

Echeveria grows most in spring and early to mid summer. They are in fact winter dormant. It looks to me like you may have either over watered or the soil may have become too hot, while wet. Personally, I would head chop this plant asap and plant it in a substrate that is more free draining by about 50% to what it is now. I hope that helps. 😊

I try to be open to all ideas, and all are welcome. I feel like overwatering is the first go-to, and for good reason, it’s statistically most likely. But I’m very careful about that, and don’t feel it’s the case. It’s dirt is quite free-draining as is, and I dont think thats it either. As to the dormancy, you are indeed right, I was mistaking them with aeonium. However, I did find people claiming (with photo proof) that theirs grow heavily in the winter.