u/nexinomus

Two weeks ago I went out of town bc we don't locally have a Home Depot & I found the fan type of Gasteria that I'd been wanting... Yesh! Everything looked fine, so I carefully unpotted it and let it sit for a day before placing it in new soil/pot. I still haven't watered it, but it's plump and well placed (you can bet that I checked today!). Then later that week I fell for a nice looking Gasteria at our local Lowe's, aka the death zone, in a cute cache pot, and it even had pups! It had recently been watered so I left it out of the cache pot for a few days before placing it. I wanted to let it be for a bit before repotting. I guess that was my mistake because I checked it today and found NO pups and NO ROOTS! I checked the soil and found no rot. The pups had simply dried up. It seems like it didn't have roots to begin with. Now what do I do with it? Place it on a dry succulent soil, maybe with a bit extra pearlite, and don't water until the leaf blades start to pucker a bit? Sigh. Not buying anything from that Lowe's again! Can this kid be saved?

Got a plant simply tagged as Hawarthia. I thought it might be a Fairy Washboard. Here's a remaining pup that's been in its wee pot for a bit over a year, and then I also show the mother plant. It had been overrun with pups that seemed to be choking her out. She's looking tons better, but I did pass on some pups as Fairy Washboard. Did I get it right? BTW, I won't be passing on that pup in the wee pot bc it's too darned CUTE, whatever it is. 😁

Of course when I got them from the store SEVERAL months ago they looked great. Now, they are shedding, one died totally from dry, and one I've repotted that I can't really tell if it's alive. I'm thinking of re-homing the survivors to say that this isn't for me right now. I thought I had a perfect place in my front window, but they look cooked to me. Am I jumping the gun?