r/Euphorbiaceae

Hi everyone,

I need help with my dear plant. I believe it is a Euphorbia. I’ve had it for 5 years since it was tiny and taken such good care of it, but while traveling abroad my grandmother put it outside (northeast USA) and I believe it to be deeply overwatered from recent rainstorms. Assume watered every 3 days for the last 3 weeks. Far too much for this plant. Direct sun on a south facing deck. Also far too much.

Is this diagnosis correct? what can I do? I know how to take care of it normally and NEVER had a single issue until leaving it with my grandmother, so the question is more of how to recover from here rather than how to prevent this kind of thing.

I'm thinking either [A] cut the stems down below the brown and start over or [B] cut some cuttings and try and root them.

With option A I know we need to treat root rot probably. Pull it up, cut off brown parts, bake the potting mix to sterilize. Anything else?

Last image is a before picture <\3

The monstera I left is similarly overwatered but I think I can take care of that one on my own, they're resilient.

TIA

I have no clue how old the plant is, it was decently sized when I purchased it but it's now become huge. (Forgot to write that it's an Euphorbia Japonica)

Tephrocactus geometricus for scale in the second pic

Edit: added plant name

I’ve had this plant for about 10 years. It’s my granddaughter’s. As she tends to ignore house plants I took it over for her and now it’s grown to be as you can see about 40 inches tall. It needs to be repotted (obviously) it fell down yesterday. I’m not sure whether I should repot it in full as is and also what to do with the babies down below. I believe they may be another species not from the parent plant. Any advice would be well taken and appreciated.

I just saw this pop up in a planter I have next to my cacs and euphorbias. Google lens says Euphorbia obsessa. Any thoughts? 1st photo is seedling and the 2nd photo is what is growing next to the planter.

This is my first euphorbia, it helped kickstart my deep appreciation for this genus, and now it's gifted me some seed pods :) I have a small organza bag tied around them now so I can gather them when they pop <3 babies soon, hopefully!!

Already showing a massive caudex!!

This Euphorbia monteiroi has been in cultivation for 4 years. The branches have grown so thick and robust that I always feel the small caudex underneath can barely support them all. 😅

hi y'all,

I rescued this guy a few days ago; I'm not sure how old he is. at the moment he is kept in a living room with indirect light and I'm not sure when he was last watered. the soil mix looks like houseplant soil and perlite.

I'd love to give him a new start to life so I'm looking for any and all advice.

thank you :)

They are so beautifully symmetrical.

This was from a recent auction, the label said euphorbia francoisii but over never seen one so naked. Finally a few leaves are growing so itight have been a good buy. It was cheap and is large

I've had this Euphorbia for a while and I thought it was a meloformis, but all the meloformis I see usually have a way more pronounced rib structure so I'm not sure anymore of what is the species.

Striations and good vibrations

why does my obesa look deflated? I got him recently and it was looking fine, but now it's become deflated-looking. please help me save my boy!!

I just acquired this plant from my local Home Depot and at the time of purchase it looked pretty healthy. Recently we have been having some heat waves and I noticed that the plant began to change color, but it is not soft so I’m wondering what I should do at this point. Is it dying? I removed it from the sun and it was acclimated and totally fine being in full sun just FYI. I think that because I used a fertilizer on the skin of the Cactus in spray form maybe that’s what did this. I’m really hoping it’s not going to die, but should I try to separate the pups and save what I can? Is it a goner? Thanks in advance for your help!

Potted my Jatropha Cathartica in a pot I made.

Not bad for $14.00 at Home Depot.