Echeveria pallida

🌿 Plant Name

Echeveria pallida
(often sold as Green Echeveria / Mexican Hens & Chicks)

🌍 Origin

• Native to Mexico

• Grows naturally in rocky, semi-arid regions

🪴 Description

Echeveria pallida is a rosette-forming succulent with broad, smooth, fleshy leaves.
The leaves are apple-green to light lime green, sometimes with a faint yellow tone under strong light.
Leaf tips are rounded with a tiny point (mucronate tip), and the plant forms a tight, symmetrical rosette.
Unlike powdery blue Echeverias, this species has little to no farina, giving it a clean, glossy look.

It is appreciated for its bright green color and compact growth.

🌞 Care Guide

☀️ Light

• Bright light to direct morning sun

• 4–6 hours of sunlight keeps the rosette compact

• Low light → stretching and loose leaves

💧 Watering

• Follow soak and dry method

• Water only when soil is completely dry

• Summer: every 7–10 days

• Winter: every 2–3 weeks
  ⚠️ Avoid water trapped between leaves

🌱 Soil

• Fast-draining succulent soil

• Best mix: cactus soil + extra perlite / pumice / sand

🌼 Fertilizer

• Optional

• Feed once a month in spring & summer

• Use diluted cactus fertilizer

🪴 Pot

• Pot with drainage holes

• Terracotta pots are preferred

🌸 Flowering

• Blooms in spring to early summer

• Produces yellow to orange bell-shaped flowers on tall stalks

🌿 Propagation

• Very easy by leaf propagation

• Also by offsets (pups) and stem cuttings