Can this plant be saved????

I have grown many Lewisia in my garden...most do quite well. This little guy was going gang-busters here in the wall for a long time...and now he is not looking so well...his name is Lewisia cotyledon 'Fransi' and he seems sick to me...what do you guys think?? The new growth is still coming on healthy, but the older growth has these rust colored patches, and some leaves have turned tan and leathery and shriviled away....Please help little Fransi....

Thanks.....from a worried plant mom...:)

Jamie

Jamie, my Fransi did a little bit of that after it stopped blooming. I discovered that even though it had been under the roof overhang and out of the rain, the soil in the pot was too wet. I pulled off the lowest bad leaves and repotted it in a mixture that's about 3/4 aquarium sand and 1/4 cactus potting mix and planted it really high up in the pot so I could double the gravel collar (it's now about 3/8" thick). Now it's doing fine. Fransi really wants no watering at all after it finishes blooming. Good luck.

I hate to say that when mine went this way, it was game over...I never had any luck getting it to survive. Mine were in terracota pots so overwatering was not the problem.

Well, first off - Thank-you both for answering my plea...:) Todd, I tend to believe you are right....but I am going to do what Zuzu did on the off chance that I can pull little 'Fransi' through....I am hoping anyway....I will keep you posted on the health of my smallest patient...

Off to move the little guy!
Jamie

Jamie, I am sending this message for the third time. Don't know whether my computer is ailing or the Website doesn't recognize me, but my previous two messages disappeared.

Did you buy your Fransi from Annie's Annuals? I did, and I forgot to mention that I had to shake off all of her potting medium when I repotted it. It was planted in the same sandy loam she uses for everything. Not the right medium for lewisias. It holds too much moisture. Pull up the plant, try to clean the roots, and replant it in a mixture that's at least 3/4 grit or sand. I replanted mine in an 8-inch azalea pot and brought it inside the solarium. I watered it lightly when I transplanted it and never again. It's now been without water for three weeks and looks as if it has recovered completely. Mine looked as bad as yours, so I'm sure yours will recover too. Most of these lewisias really don't want any watering except when they're ready to bloom.