Beginner Gardening: New to plants... , 0 by katgrogan

katgrogan wrote:
I was just given some plants to keep, and I know very little about them. I know they are succulents, but I am such a beginner I couldn't even begin to know what kind they are.

I am not sure how to diagnose problems. I noticed that two of the plants seem to have weirdness about them. The green pointy one has a bunch of leaves that have fallen off and has strange white spots. I have a picture of one of the spots. Surrounding the white spot is brown. It almost looks like when you burn a hole in paper. It also looks like there are a bunch of them in one pot? Should it be replanted?

The purple/grey one is lumpy underneath the leaves, is this normal? It doesn't feel 'mushy', just lumpy. The tips are also withered.

The green one with the thick bulbous leaves looks okay to me, but again I know so little about these plants I could be wrong, so I included it as well.

I don't want to guess and be wrong, so I don't know if these problems were caused by over/under watering so I want to be sure before I do anything. I don't want to think it's underwatered and water it more only to realize it was suffering from over watering!

I know the plants were outside in partial sun, though apparently one of them had been moved out of direct sunlight recently. It's been pretty hot here in texas.

Any advice/anyone know the names of these plants? The only plant experience I have is catnip, and it seems like that is like saying you grow dandelions in your yard, lol! It kind of grew itself.

Thanks!