So, I bought two new Thanksgiving cacti from Etsy and I purchased a heat pack for it, but it shipped WITHOUT the heat pack and parts of it got frostbitten. They shipped while in bloom, so I’m afraid to repot them and stress them out more than they already are after I trimmed away obviously mushy pieces. They’re both dropping segments like crazy. It’s been three days and I found one of them stems rotted from being in contact with the frozen soil since they were shipped absolutely soaked in water on top of everything else. (Soil is just slightly damp now and they’re not sitting in super soggy soil) At this point I regret buying them when I knew the weather was going to be so cold. I feel stupid for getting them shipped at a time of year they’d be in bloom, but I didn’t think of that at the time. I’m very new to plants that aren’t neglect friendly like snake plants.

For now I have them in a room temperature location just away enough from an east facing window to get about 6 hours indirect light per day. I cut the one that rotted at the base into segments in hopes of saving the top part of it via propagation, and those cuttings are sitting out now so they callous before I try propagating them.

I’m not sure what else I can do to save it. Any advice is greatly appreciated.

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I’m a newish plant mom. I’ve had pothos for years but those are nearly indestructible.

But Sasha here… I’ve had her for a few months. She got some kind of infestation of little black bugs a few weeks after I brought her home. So in utter fear of ruining her and the rest of my new expensive hobby, I carted her outside and gave her a dawn bath and removed all her nursery soil. Repotted her with what I had which was cheap ass bag soil from a big box store. Let her dry out and put her near a morning sun window. After a month she still looked extremely sad and gave me zero new growth. I figured if she was gonna die, we were going to at least be able to say we did what we could to save her. So I repotted her again this time with a mix of perlite, orchid bark, compost and soil. Put her on a stand in an afternoon sun window and forgot about her. 😂

I came home from thanksgiving vacation to two new leaves.

She’s a fighter. I know I need to separate her but I feel I’ve stressed her all to hell already the past few months so I’ll leave her be for a while.

My favorite houseplants 🥰

Please for the love of god tell me what is wrong with my jade and how to fix it 😭 she is 18 years old I planted her in the first grade, have been battling mealybugs for years, and now this random rot on the branches, trunk isn’t squishy, but the branches keep rotting right at the base

I saw this in my indoor cilantro plant. Is this mold?

Hi everyone,

I recently purchased this LED light from Home Depot: 3 ft. 30-Watt 4000K Bright White 1-Light 3000 Lumens.

Specs: 3 ft. long, 30 Watts, 4000K Bright White, 3000 Lumens

I'm hoping to use it for my indoor plants, but I'm not sure if the light spectrum and intensity are suitable for plant growth.

Would this light provide enough for my plants to grow, or should I look for something with a different spectrum?

Any advice or insights would be appreciated!

Thanks in advance! 🌱