California Gardening: Arctostaphylos/Manzanita growers please help!, 0 by CaptMicha

CaptMicha wrote:
I really don't want this manzanita to go the way of all my other manzanitas. I'm not watering it, except once or twice, I didn't feed it and I have it in part sun, the weather's not even hot yet but temperate like it's supossed to like.

First, I had it potted in a cacti mix but the plant was unhappy and now I have it in sand with some rocks.

I'm at a loss, I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

It's A. densiflora 'Howard McMinn'.