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I’ve got plant problems this month-plural, and I’m trying to figure them out so I can potentially fix the problems.

I’ve had this ping since March and it was doing great until a couple of weeks ago, and I didn’t change anything so I’m puzzled.

Last month I saw these thin little white strands going across the bottom leaves but they had been there for a bit and didn’t seem to be an issue. When I took a pair of tweezers to try to get them off because I thought it was cat hair or something I realized they were attached and I left them alone.


The last couple weeks I’ve noticed that the plant looked to be not only halted in growth but smaller. I got them in some strong natural light and noticed that there’s a ring of dead leaves at the bottom and some other ones are shriveling.

I have them under a couple sansei grow lights which are 20W together. I thought they might need more at first, but they were flourishing really. I have them in the soil mix that I bought from carnivorous plants which is perlite, peat, and vermiculite 2/1/1 approximately. Pot is about 3 1/2w by 3 deep. It gets about 14 hours under the grow light daily. I tray water a bit usually about once a week. I have been considering switching to top watering as the top media always seems dry even after it’s done taking water. This past water I did a bit from top after tray again left the top too dry for my liking. I really haven’t changed my care of it since I believe mid April (I’d have to look at when I lost my Cyclosecta) when I started watering it less due to paranoia that it would also get browning heart disease. From then until a couple weeks ago it kept growing larger and was healthy, so I don’t know what changed.

I’m going to include a pic from May and a couple I took today-

May picture above Pics from today

to me your plant seems in good condition, what you took for cat hairs are in fact it seems to me simply roots

Can you see how the bottom row died out between the first pic and #2 and 3? That’s the first time I’ve had this kind of die off, and that’s normal? About how often does that happen out of curiosity? I’m not sure why I assumed that would only happen when it was going into its winter dormancy and getting smaller with succulent type leaves but I definitely thought that.

always prefer watering by capillary action rather than from above.
Old leaves always end up drying out, this is normal.
maybe a reinforcement of limestone will give it more “pep”
what species is it, hybrid, ehlersiae, esseriana?

jeff wrote: ↑Sun Jun 23, 2024 7:58 am always prefer watering by capillary action rather than from above.
Old leaves always end up drying out, this is normal.
maybe a reinforcement of limestone will give it more “pep”
what species is it, hybrid, ehlersiae, esseriana?

Perhaps I should water it more then. Because lately you can definitely tell that the surface remains dry even after I tray water it, and maybe I over corrected after losing my Cyclosecta.


The site has it listed as just Ehlersiae, my apologies I totally forgot to list that.