We were Able to Save Her Children, But Not Her

Rain flows from morning to night. It is a very difficult season to desert plants like cactus and succulents. We have a few cactus and succulents here and we face different difficulties these days.

As I mentioned in my early articles, some of my succulents already died due to watering. Even though we have placed them in a greenhouse the heavy rain flows with the wind had damaged some other plants as well.

My brother found a cactus plant that looks very squishy and he identified it as overwatered. On the first day, I didn't accept it, but on the second day, I couldn't believe my eyes. After recognizing it is overwatered, my brother removed it from the pot and placed it in a dry place without soil. On the second day, the plant looked like the below. :(

The plant was green in the first day, but within a night it converted to brown and looked infected by fungus.

As the plant is half dead, we decided to separate its child plants. Two of three plants looked healthy and the remaining child plant had become brown. So I carefully moved two healthy baby plants and placed them in a dry place to get rid of any possible infections.

This is a Gymnocalycium variety, we protected it for 3 months without any problem. With this, we decided to do a checkup on other plants as well. Following is the pot we used to plant the above plant and you can see how wet is the soil. If your cactus looked over watered, the best thing is, remove the plant from the pot and dry the root system as much as you can. Keep the plant in a dry place without soil for 1 to 3 days before repot.

Another experience to life!
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