Succulents turning brown

[The noob]

I have some succulents that are turning brown. They were beautifull for a year and all the sudden the changed color. I haven't done anything to them. What do you think I should do?

 

[big rockpile]

Maybe too much water.

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Mine I don't water but once a month then make sure they are watered heavy.

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[Anniekay]

Thry look as if you have them in your native soil and not in soil appropriate for succulents. You also haven't given them a repotting in over a year you say so, they look as if their roots have died back from too infrequent watering and lack of nutrition in the soil. Sand is good for cacti but most succulents need more nutrition than cacti do.

Abundant watering causes the leaves to swell and become soft and waterlogged, or the tips to yellow and the leaves to fall off. I don't see that situation in your pictures.

I don't see the first one coming back but the other two I'd put in new pots with new well draining soil, water them when the soil is first dry and situate them in shade for a time , see if they recover. They may shoot out pups from the bottom on the sides and give you new healthy starts.

 

[roadrunner]

I also have Aloe Vera that I received from a neighbor. They were in a pot and I don't like container gardening, so I transplanted them into the ground with full sun. Mine started turning brown and I read somewhere that Aloe Vera turns brown when in FULL SUN -- are your plants in full sun?

When it turns brown they say it has a sunburn, but it's a desert plant, so I don't understand....

I started growing plants around them, to give them some shade (dappled shade) and that seemed to work. However, this year they've been in full sun, because I didn't plant anything near it to shade the Aloe Vera. So I'm not sure what happened, other than maybe it was it's because my soil has been improving every year, since I chop-and-drop year-round -- I never add soil amendments/fertilizers.

I also never water the plant, since it's a succulent; however, it does, at times, get tons of water from very heavy rains, which we just had over the last two weeks, but that has NOT had any effect, most of the stems have a very healthy green color. There are a couple stems with a little brown, but they're all the old ones and when you look at the plant the green definitely jumps out. However, I've also read that over/under watering can turn them brown, which is probably a bigger issue in containers.

If it is receiving full sun, I would give it a little shade, especially when the sun in directly above. If that's not the issue, than it may have something to do with the containers. Maybe it needs a larger or maybe it's a nutrient/water issue, but I don't know, since I don't container garden.

 

[big rockpile]

You might want to watch it with Aloe Vera because it is very invasive.

I have many plants that sprout at the drop of the hat and anything that gets from them is put in the trash.

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