Thanks, @tarev! Yikes — I just looked at it today and found out that a small leaf has dried up! Apart from watering and sunning it as much as possible, is there anything else that would be particularly beneficial to the plant?

Where is the location of the dried up leaf? If it is the lower, older leaf drying out that is okay. But if the drying out one is a new one at the tip, then I would try to pull out the plant from the media to check it out again.

The onset of cold season is always dicey to some succulents, that is why great caution in watering frequency, giving more light and making the media very well draining to help it dry out faster is very important.

Thanks, @tarev! It was a lower leaf.

Hey @Tarev, I would love you to go into more detail about changes you make with the cold season coming.

Hi Laurie, pretty much less watering to none during cold season. Watching the temps overnight, some can handle 30F, but some like my tropical succulents I use 50F as their lowest cold exposure. Keeping them dry especially during winter time, with shortened natural light indoors, succulents slow down and may go dormant. No fertilizing. Applying some insecticidal soap spray to address creepy crawlies if plants were outdoors before. I do my repot in mid Spring.

But I can leave some of my succulents outdoors, so I make sure always my media is very well draining, and my containers are not too deep, so it can still manage to drain excess water fast and endure the cold and some light rain. In my area our rainy season is winter time, so it really is a bit of a challenge. There are some succulent types that can handle the cold nicely and actually do a nice cold stress color change so they continue to grow outdoors. I do a switch of plants growing in my growcamp. My growcamp holds my orchids during the warm season, during winter they hide indoors, and I place some of my succulents there, helping them keep dry.

Continuously monitoring temps during cold season for my succulents outdoors, when hard freeze is called for, either I continue bringing in some more plants in our garage, or move them closer to the house and cover with burlap.

I don't use artificial lighting for my succulents indoors, I have a good south facing window for them. So it all depends on your growing area too, if you will need one.

Hope that helps A lot of damage with succulents often occurs with overwatering, when we overlook the prevailing ambient temps around the plant. When Spring returns, I usually try to see if the plant is starting to make a new leaf, so I can gauge if it is slowly coming back to active grow mode, so a bit more watering can be done in good intervals.