Hi everyone,
I live in New York zone 7b and I decided to try some msembs from seed as my winter project. Fast forward to early spring and I decided to repot my titanopsis schwantesii and aloinopsis luckhoffii seedlings into larger pots and move them outdoors for the season. I have the plants growing in a spot that gets 6-8 hours of strong southern exposure. I supplement with water during weeks with no rain.
The titanopsis seems to be doing the best, but over the past month I've noticed that some of the smaller clumps have begun shriveling and dying off. The big clumps seems ok.
The aloinopsis has been a mess. Many of the baby plants have yellowed and are in the process of dying off. A few of the largest clumps seem okay. I'd say of the 10 or so I transplanted only 2 or 3 look ok.
Am I doing something wrong here? The msembs I'm growing under lights have not skipped a beat. I'm thinking two things are at play here. Either they are drying out too much (they are still babies), getting too much water from the rain, or not responding well to the light. I don't see any signs of obvious sunburn.
I'd love to hear from other people's experience growing mesembs outdoors. Is there any obvious culprit here?
by Adamb241