Monthly Succulent Subscription

[GodlovesU!]

So I got a monthly succulent subscription for my birthday. My first plant was a pickle plant, and it’s almost dead. I moved it into a new pot, but barely disturbed the roots. I literally just picked it up out of the pot, and set it in another. I also watered it. What did I do wrong? How can I keep my next one alive?

 

[R2elk]

So I got a monthly succulent subscription for my birthday. My first plant was a pickle plant, and it’s almost dead. I moved it into a new pot, but barely disturbed the roots. I literally just picked it up out of the pot, and set it in another. I also watered it. What did I do wrong? How can I keep my next one alive?

How to Care for the Quirky Pickle Plant

 

[flowerbug]

...How can I keep my next one alive?

when i saw the title for this thread i thought to myself as a joke that that would be about perfect as that would be about how long i'd keep them alive.

note that was just humor and not my own past history with succulents. as a kid and going into a teen years i had a succulent collection in a west facing window of about 12 types of plants. i managed to kill only one of them until i mistakenly got a plant and brought it home and it had a mealy bug infection which spread to all my other plants. i tried for the next few year to get rid of them but no luck so i discarded all my cactus plants.

the cactus i killed within a few months was one of the stone cactuses and i think i just may have put it in the wrong kind of soil because i used some bright white granules that may have been coated with something somewhat toxic but it looked so wild while it was alive. i had a few pieces of very metallic looking slag (that may have also been toxic) with it so it looked like it was completely on another planet.

i suspect had i put it in some clean mostly mineral cacti mix and watered it once in a while like the others it may have lived longer.

now, i look at all those stone cacti types online and i love the varieties but i wouldn't even attempt to grow them here as i'm just not in a room that gets a lot of light that would work plus i'm just not in the houseplant frame of mind anymore since there is so much to do outside...

the link that @R2elk supplied above sounds reasonable when i read through it. hope it helps.