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Stretched echeveria, need advice

10 years ago

Hello, garden friends! I bought an echeveria in the fall, charmed by its loveliness, without knowing too much about them...well, spending a Wisconsin winter indoors was not so kind to it. It now looks like this:


From the background of the picture, you can get an idea of what our weather has been like...cloudy and cold (40s) even though it is supposedly "spring" already. Oy.

So I understand that it is etiolated due to insufficient light. What I wanted to ask you guys was, what, if anything, can I do about it? For instance, we will (Goddess willing!) get more sunlight soon. If I prune it back, will it grow back in a more normal way if it has more sunlight? (And, if I should prune it, please give me advice on how to do so, because I've never pruned a succulent before.)

Or, should I discard it and replace it with something that is more tolerant of low light conditions? I was so tempted to buy a Kalanchoe tomentosa ("Panda Plant") recently, but I thought...oh no, do I not have enough light for one of those either? What if it goes the way of my echeveria? For reference, I have an Aloe vera, a Haworthia attenuata, a moon cactus, a Sansivieria trifasciata, and a Dracaena sanderiana all in the same room as the echeveria, and they're all doing fine with that amount of light. (The dracaena and the sans are farther away from the window, but the others, including the echeveria, are right next to the west-facing window in that room.)

So, what do you guys think? What is the best thing to do with my poor stretched echeveria?


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