oh awesome!! thank you ronan ;o; it was doing fine when i got it but moved it to a window that i thought had more sunlight for it, turns out i guess it's not getting as much light there as i thought it would "^^ didn't realise i got such a fussy boi plant ;u;

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oh i know right!! plants can be SO fickle, lol. your plant will remain stretched out like that, but if it bugs you, beheading is an option. the plant will just produce babies to keep growing after that. gotta be careful with beheading tho, i don't like to do it unless it's strictly necessary.

just dont do what i did when i first had this problem - i panicked and threw it outside.... and forgot about it. in the middle of summer. in midday 100+ degree heat. the poor thing was used to filtered sunlight through a window and air conditioning, and it pretty much boiled to death lmao whoops

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kookaburra yep thatd be a stetched succ, no worries tho it can be saved! here's a lil tutorial, you can find many of them on the internet:

https://www.succulentsandsunshine.com/stretched-out-succulents/

when the cutting is established again, put it in some good sunlight and make sure not to water too often :3 ive found that my succs keep a tighter rosette if i let their soil completely dry and let bottom leaves go just a lil soft before watering again

for ronan, it might be rootbound? maybe? if its been in the same pot for two years now it is due for a repot :3 you can try a repot into a larger pot and mix some perlite into the soil to make a nice draining soil. maybe keep it in a little less full sun until its perked up again.

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alright, thanks! at this point im desperate enough to try anything lol. they're all sort of due for a repotting anyways come to think of it lmao

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Hello,
I got a yucca that's in a really bad shape. I love him so much, I'd like to try to better his situation a little, but I'm not sure what I can do.

For the whole story, this guy is 25 years old. He was a great plant, about 1m50 tall maybe, with several heads and lots of leaves. But, someday, for some reason, the whole think started to die. Leaf after leave, head after head, the whole thing died until only a little bit of trunk remained. But I loved him so much, I refused to throw him away. Luckily, it ended up regrowing, the trunk made a new one.

But, I probably failed the light exposure or something, the trunk grew into a spiral. It is really thin, way thinner that it used to be, and it doesn't grow anymore, it stayed really small. The wall thing is twisted, and there's only a very few leaves. The plant isn't great at all, but I'm not sure I can do anything for him....

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literally happened out of no where too!! i had it by that window for a while before it decided to just shoot up out of no where haha! i don't mind it being that long, it looks pretty unique like it is ;o; , so i think i'll just move it to a better window and keep an eye on it! if it keeps getting longer i might give beheading a go and start a fresh, see if i can keep it's plant babies at a normal height ^^" i'm just worried that if it keeps going it'll get so long that it snaps under its own weight, but that's a last resort kind of thing!!

oh no!! poor plant omg i almost did put it outside actually as it was getting too big for the small window it was next to but decided against it as i live in the UK and it's been super windy lately so i was worried it'd just get blown away with how small and thin it is ;u;

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AH thank you also for that tutorial!! hopefully i can save my little plant boi without him throwing a hissy fit again xux <3

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Hello Druids, I have a bit of an issue with a Gardenia I bought about a week ago.

It was lush and healthy when I bought it, but the leaves seem to be turning yellow for some reason.

I have watered it as directed on the tag, and I have put it in an area with morning sun and afternoon shade, like the tag said to.

Any idea what's wrong with it? I can include pictures if necessary

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Hey guys,

Sorry to come back so quick (the joys of many cacti) but just spotted this on one of my plants and wondering what it could be? Google has been less than useful so I thought it best to come to the experienced lot <3



Since my phone camera is crap, basically some of my tall cacti in that pot has started gaining brown patches along its sides and also the top is slightly brown as well. If something is wrong with it, is it possible to rectify it before it goes too far?

Many thanks ^_^

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hm.. could it possibly be corking? cacti when they age begin to get brown and calloused in places, USUALLY only at the bottom. my worry is that they don't cork from the top down, and the top isn't looking too hot. it could be a fungal infection, maybe? is it possible you could offer clearer pictures of the problem spots?

also, are you able to ensure it has adequate room to grow, and the soil drains well? the rocks worry me, personally, but thats just because whenever i see them in stores theyre always glued down to the plant lmao. these plants may need to be separated.

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Thanks x Hopefully the pictures below are clearer for you ^^ Might have gone a little OTT on the images, sorry for any lag that may cause :(

In regards to growing, my mum has the same style of planter with 3 cacti in and none have this issue and none of my other cacti which have been pot-bound all their life have this - but it could be a possibility I wont be able to deal with until I get some soil when I return to university (I travel home tomorrow and the garden centre nearest me closes at 4pm annoyingly). The rocks are glued down to the soil, but are free from the plant because I pushed the rocks away to give the plants some breathing space.

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Cacti generally don't grow a lot unless they have perfect living conditions, at which point they can really shoot up there.

As for the corking on the bottom, I don't think it really matters? I live in a desert and I see cacti like that all the time, and they usually have lots of corking. However, the 'corking' at the top could be a problem. I'd say it might be sunburn, but you're in England, so I doubt it's that.

If your cactus was outside, I'd say that they might be scales or mites, but they aren't. Did you bring any new plants inside? If so, look for scales (small parasites that looks like brown patches) and mites (tiny, tiny, tiny red bugs. It's kind of hard to look for them because they're so small, so look for their webs instead.) on both the affected plant along with any new plants you brought inside. If you find some, check all your plants.

It could be frost damage if the patches weren't brown, but instead black. But they look brown in the pictures.

It might be rot, but it doesn't look like rot, and you seem to be experienced in growing cacti.

Did you apply any insecticides or something recently? It could be phototoxicity. If you applied something and then let the plant sit in direct sunlight then it could be that.

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Also, it the brown stuff soft? Hard? What does it feel like when you touch it?

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I havent really seen corking before - hence why I was confused what the bottom marks were from. And whilst I can grow my cacti quite easily, other plants die when I'm looking after them.
As for new plants, I brought some in about a month ago, but the brown top on the original cactus was there way before then. And just checking those two that I got, I cant see any of the stuff you described (but the cacti themselves are tiny so I might have missed something).
The only cacti of mine to receive something other than water doesnt live in the same point as the one I'm asking about, and even then it only received a nutrient mixture because it had grown too tall for its roots at the time to keep it stable. Now all my cacti only have water on them as they live inside all the time,
The patches are indeed brown, on top and are hard to the touch as best as I can tell (well, they dont squish when I poke them). But it feels relatively smooth like the rest of the plant itself - only brown, not green.

Hope this helps a bit ^_^
Thank you to everyone who is helping <3

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weird! so it's brown completely, not squishy anywhere, no visible pests.. if you're really worried you could probably cut the offending tissue off, but i don't think that's necessary. keep an eye on it, though, for sure. depending on the kind of cactus it is this sort of corking could be normal. the only other thing i can think to suggest would be to check the roots, but that may be a challenge lol.

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