7 Aeonium Mistakes That Look Exactly Like Good Care

Everything that keeps a normal succulent alive is quietly working against an Aeonium.

They run the calendar backwards. Aeoniums sleep through the summer heat and do their growing in the cool, wet months — the opposite of the desert succulents most care advice is written for. So the sunniest spot and a steady summer watering routine, which would be right for an Echeveria, is the single fastest way to lose one.

The first half covers the four mistakes that do the most damage, and what is actually happening inside the plant each time: watering through summer dormancy, starving it through its real growing season, trying to propagate from a single leaf, and pruning at the one time of year it cannot heal a cut.

The second half covers the last three — the summer leaf drop that looks like death and isn't, the flower stalk that kills one rosette and not the plant, and the marks that appear days after you repot — then the rescue protocol for a plant that is already in trouble.

Watch to the end for the one-second check that tells you which half of the year your plant thinks it is in, and what that means you should and should not do.

Chapters:
0:00 The calendar runs backwards
0:18 First half — the four mistakes that look correct
6:18 The second half — three more, then the rescue
6:34 Second half — the last three mistakes, then the rescue
12:50 Open, or tight?