Please help me diagnose whether this is normal trailing behavior as a result of maturity, vs stretching for the light. it lives in an east facing windowsill in nyc getting a short amount of full sun in the a.m. before the angle of buildings turns it to part shade. I do let it completely dry before rewatering. Is it time to move it to a wall mounted pot so it can trail?
by Jerry_Quinn
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thats a crassula ovata and yup its etiolating. stem also looks like its broken and/or drying out at the bottom
i would like to point out that this is not a graptosedum. its a jade plant, and that species does not trail, it forms shrubs, so it being slumped over like that is never normal
The perfume is making it sick.
If it just slumped over recently, I would be very worried that the stem is rotting from the roots up.
Just because the soil is drying doesn’t mean it can’t rot. Succulents contain a lot of moisture so if it gets damaged or something, bacteria/fungi/etc. can live off internal moisture from the plant tissue.
It looks like you have it in soggy organic-rich soil in a non-draining container. Poke the base of the stem. If it’s squishy or spongy or really any texture less than firmly plump or woody, you need to do surgery asap.
Jade tolerates being cut and reset very well, so if you have to trim the healthy growth off it’s not the end of the world.