How I Almost (But Didn't) Kill my Elephant Bush Succulent
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- Опубликовано: 17 авг 2020
- It's tricky out here when you don't know how to take care of succulents! Here is the journey of my Elephant Bush Succulent and what I did to save it from overwatering!
A bit of advice on these (and most) plants, try to not repot them so much. It puts additional stress on the plants. Smaller is usually better. Good job bringing it back!
U remind me of myself lol although I'm older and a very experienced gardener, we are all beginners if we're growing a plant new to us. New subber!! Ty for putting ur vid out there.
Hii, I have a elephant bush which was recently purchased and it's pretty sick, idk what to do, can you help me?
Brought back to life. ❤
Most commercial succulent and cactus mix has too much peat and not nearly enough drainage material. If you have nothing else get some Perlite and mix that half and half with your commercial succulent soil. If possible get some small pumice to to add. 1/4 pumice, 1/4 perlite, and about half succulent soil. You could even do more mineral in your mixture depending on the succulent you are dealing with. The terracotta was a really good moved. Plastic and ceramic pots hold moisture in.
My favorite Portulacaria Afra was growing beautifully but then suddenly I saw it was dropping leaves. I thought that I had done everything right! (Never assume that)! So I watered it thinking that because it was summer maybe it needed more water. Wrong. Finally I decided that I needed to repot it. When I took it out of the pot I saw that the soil had gradually sunk down into the planter and piled up in one area which caused the roots to sit in damp soil. All of the volcanic rock was at the upper level of the pot and the soil was down below! 🥲The poor thing!
So I have repotted it and I am not going to water it for a while. I repotted it in dry soil. I guess that I will just watch it for a while. I’m not real sure what else to do at this point. One lesson learned is that I will not use that mix again. I will stick with soil, perlite and pumice for now. My poor little tree. It was looking so nice and now it looks like a maple in the fall.☹️
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Mine has one stem with one leaf. Im glad I stumbled on this video. Im going to move it to a terracotta pot
What to do?!!🥺🥺🥺, Mine too one leaf one stem..
Same here but 4 leaves and 2 stems can’t seem to get it back to life I’ve been trying cutting back and on water and even giving it a bit more it’s still dying 😩
Omg thank god i found your video! I have a variegated one and it is dying. I'll try what you did to revive it. Thank you!
How is yours doing now? My tiny, tiny one has 11 tiny leaves! :(
good job..i will try repotting into a terracotta planter. Thanks for advice.
Hi ::its unbelievable how ur patients and time bought that plant bk to life...everything needs care and attention I wish u gd luck with it
I love jade plant 🪴 😍
I’m having the same problem with my elephant bush! It’s winter now and i’ve noticed as soon as it got colder my plant started dropping leaves and I bought grow lights and nothing seems to be working
I'm sure you probably know this, but if not the sound of the camera adjusting its zoom is a bit distracting. I'm distracted by squirrels tho so..
Mine has ben dying too, but it's not as bad as yours yet so I have some hope left!
Okay so I bought the same exact plant from Home Depot (same pot and everything) and it has been the most temperamental plant I have ever owned
I have 9 verigated