Succulents are admittedly not my strong suit when it comes to houseplants. These two just keep getting taller and taller and in the last few months have completely fallen and I have no idea what to do with them. Do you chop and prop?! Do I get different pots? Do I just let them do their thing?! Help!
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They’re etiolated, reaching for the sun:) They both need larger pots, don’t go too big, maybe an inch larger. You can chop the head off and leave a little of the stem on. Let it callous over for a few days-week and then repot with some fresh succulent soil. Don’t water for a few days and then water from the bottom. Put in bright light. If you remove any of the leaves you can propagate them and get some more plants too!
Neither of these plants are etiolated – they are just trailing. You can differentiate etiolation from trailing by looking to see if the growth is compact or spaced out. Your plants’ leaves are compact together. Some succulents just trail as they grow which is normal
It is up to you if you want to chop and replant so they aren’t coming out of the pots anymore or leave them be. You can also leave them as they are and repot them into larger pots to give them a little more room
The flowers growing out of the green one are pretty. What kind of plant is it, do you know?
How odd
Both need larger pots.
I would chop and prop the one with all the dead leaves on it to clean it up a bit.
Leave the other one be. It’s just how it grows
That looks like my Echeveria Blue Bird. It naturally grow tall and crawl if not supported. You can behead if you like. And the lower part will grow more pups. Same with Crassula Moonglow.
https://preview.redd.it/faqnvfm4daof1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=61b427db7b04b6818a9ca6393bb2e13c59179397
mature growth cascades