Asexual Plants

If you see a plant that looks like the above, it’s probably fine. If your succulents are anything like mine, they’ll probably get worse and look like the pic (below), which was another succulent I had that started getting this odd mystery blight on it’s newer leaves about a month before the echeveria pictured above. 

It’s pretty gross looking, but I’ve had this pop up on a lot of my plants and it never seems to hurt them (I don’t qualify the plant as being hurt unless it’s dead, dying or in danger of dying; ugly is fine). Eventually, the weird leaves will grow out. Here’s a pic of my Echeveria Contempo that’s starting to grow out of the blight after about a month of looking ratty. By the end of the summer it’ll probably look like new.

While I personally don’t worry about this blight anymore, if I do see discoloration of succulent leaves I'll usually check them for signs of rot, every once and a while, just to be safe. 

Signs of rot: Mushy stem; Weirdly dark spots in stem; Rotting or dying roots; Clear mushy leaves; The plant suddenly dropping all it’s leaves for no reason and then stem shriveling up and dying (all leaves =/= the lower leaves drying up and falling up, which is normal for a lot of succulents); severe discoloration or melting of new leaves; etc

My plant Instagram just reached 100 followers the other day so I decided to a giveaway for a small box of assorted succulent cuttings and leaf starts. 

Just follow my plant Instagram and tag two people in this post you think might also want some free plants :)

Or some unholy combination of both?

I have a 10 gal aquarium that will absolutely not hold water, but would be a great terrarium... I’m trying to decide if I should fill it with sundews or tropicals, So drop a comment if you think one would look cooler in an office!

I recently got some plants from Ruby Plants and figured I’d share the unboxing video here. 

All the plants looked really healthy and it was a satisfying unbox even though a cat tried to nom my plants. 

At what point do I need an intervention???