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Posted 1M ago by @BravePinkpoui

Espy? Espy?! WHAT IS HAPPENING! ESPY!!! 😱

I was gone for four days and I come back to this! Solutions, interpretations, anything?! She's near a window but it's warmish in her spot, and all the plants around her seem entirely unbothered...
2” pot with drainage
Last watered 1 week ago
To me, this soil is too rich for this succulent and retains moisture for too long. You need to repot into cacti/ succulent soil ASAP.
It is succulent soil -- same soil / pot for four months. (The lighting is admittedly not great where I snapped that photo; the wall is definitely not grey IRL!)
The lighting might not be enough for her and she is elongating causing her to become top heavy and fall over. You could repot her into another slightly bigger pot and recenter her with more soil, but you will have to address her lighting issue; maybe supply a small grow light?
Yes @Seedstarter !! North hardly gets any light during morning and afternoon, west gets great light but only late afternoon evening. I think it may be light! And how are you watering? Bottom watering? Or top and the leaves have been or gotten wet maybe? Could this be crown rot? Tagging my succulent expert friend 🤩✨🌱 @Charli3Plant
Like @Seedstarter mentioned, she's definitely stretching out trying to get more light. Echeveria love light and need lots of it. A south facing window that gets direct light all day and a strong grow light should keep her happy.
@SvelteKingfern is also correct, the soil doesn't look gritty enough. You almost always have to amend premade mixes from big stores with additional grit, like perlite. You can behead her an inch or so below the rosette, let it callous, and stick the cutting directly into soil. It'll eventually root and you'll have a new plant 🌱
Do not repot in a bigger pot!!! (as @Seedstarter suggested). Succulents have small root system and like to be slightly rootbound. In addition, soil in bigger pot would retain too much water (a plant can't drink that much water) and the plant would stay in wet soil for too long. This would cause root rot. The rule of thumb: tiny plants in tiny pots. That's why we have so many pot sizes: to accommodate every plant size.
Tbh, if you do behead it, you could very easily stick the cutting back into the current pot. I would for sure have a good look at the roots to make sure nothing is rotted.
Thanks all. A little wander outside confirms that the spot that got a lot of winter sun last year is now... let's just say the construction site next door isn't affecting only the humans 🤬 . So there's that, and TBH she has been hyper-leggy since rescue, so it's definitely time for a reset. I am planning a full rosette decapitation with cinnamon as the rooting powder; wish her luck! Thanks all!
Good luck to her 🤗🌵🪴💚
@SvelteKingfern I said slightly bigger (3-4 in, to be more specific). If they don't repot the plant, how do you suggest it stand straight up again? It won't do it by itself, and adding more soil to the current pot is useless because the soil is already toward the top.

Also, what do you mean by a small root system? Echeveria has a shallow root system when potted outdoors in the ground, but that's child's play in a pot. Its fibrous and long, and well-established succulent roots can quickly outgrow its pot, especially one that’s 2 in (that’s a seedling pot).

Some succulents benefit from being root-bound, but Echeverias are not one of them. I benefit from having my plants be root-bound because it's easier to repot them when they're this way.

Soil is not an issue if they use well-draining succulent soil or make their own, especially if they combine it with a porous pot.
"Slightly bigger" is too big for this tiny plant. I stand by everything I said above.
No need to be agitated. Our aim is to help the new plant owners. @Seedstarter
@SvelteKingfern I assure you that 3-4 in is not significant for this plant. I have a firecracker about this size in a 5 in pot and it is completely fine. If you do not want to agitate someone do not @ them and tell the other person that they are wrong like they are not here. That was just rude and uncalled for
You're entitled to your opinion @Seedstarter
I do not want to comment any further.
@SvelteKingfern, please work on your online etiquette. You hurt me here, and I was trying to help
Hi there. I will be sticking with the current pot size. As you can see from this photo, Espy has a longstanding legginess issue (again, rescue plant from last year; the photo is how she looked when she got here) and, I suspect, the root situation to match. I'd rather keep her in this pot size for now since as you see the situation has been complex since she got here (September '23). Thanks all!
And to wrap the saga, Espy was trimmed, calloused up great, and has been re-planted in a size- and soil-appropriate fashion. Thanks all!