It's etiolated so it needs more light. It appears to be rotting.

So many leaves are missing due to my two year old child pulling them off. It gets about 5 hours of direct sunlight every day. I’ll hope for the best with it. If it does die I have a leaf from it rooting but no leaves have started to form

In my opinion, the stem is too damaged for the plant to recover. I would chop the tip, let it dry, and put in soil to see if it can grow. (No water until roots)

Not sure what happened, maybe soil too wet too long, possibly pot too large. Have you read here about the best soil? Good luck with the leaf.

Yeah 50/50 succulent soil and perlite. I’m not too upset if it doesn’t live. I have too many new plants growing. Thank you both!

Soil appears to be water retaining. Any succulents would benefit from more drainage: simple way to improve would be adding lots of sifted perlite - minimum of 50% of total volume. Large pots will hold lots of potting mix, so using smaller pots with drainage holes will help.

This plant never grew that well for me from leaves, hope yours will. I would cut off top asap - before rot reaches it; let it callus and stick into well draining mix. It may grow.

I've had one of these but it struggles!! Have one in the ground currently, about 4" high and hanging in there, but I don't expect much from it because it just sits, doesn't grow much. Interesting coloring though.

The soil was and usually is always dry not sure why it looks very damp in the picture. But thank you both I came home from work and it was completely bent over. I cut the top off and hoping it roots

Rachel

How do you know soil is dry?

My nodulosa are all tall and gangly too. I also find they take a *very* long time to root and grow leaves.

Look at the roots this one had ... weeks before even remotely showing signs of sprouting a plant:

Kd

Hoovb- I don’t have many places to put plants so they get sunlight. Would like for you to keep rude comments to yourself

Bunkfree- holy cow! Well I guess it’ll be awhile before a plant starts

Hoovb's comment wasn't rude, merely a warning that many plants are toxic, and especially so to small infants. Eating a small part of them can cause all manner of problems from sickness and stomach cramps to far more serious concerns. Far easier is for them to get sap in a tiny eye which can cause blindness, a sappy finger in their mouth can cause loss of speech and major swelling of the tongue and throat for e.g. I can go on, but I won't. Do you know with absolute certainty that this plant and others that you have aren't toxic? If your child has this habit of pulling plants to pieces, I too suggest moving all of them well out of reach, if not to keep your plants looking good, at least for the sake of your little one. Imagine how any of us would have felt if we hadn't told you about this 'possible' issue that you 'appear' not to be aware of and something had happened.....?? We hope that doesn't happen, obviously :-)

That said, the leaf stripping the plant has been subjected to is most likely the primary cause of its demise. The stem tissue has been damaged beyond repair by tearing, rot has set in and sadly the plant is now failing. I don't grow this myself, but I suppose you have nothing to lose by trying to reroot the top part as suggested by several others :-)

Gill

Thank you for the advice. My child luckily doesn’t stick foreign objects in his mouth like plant leaves he just pulls them off. I chopped the top and going to attempt to root it.

Rachel, pls. do not take this wrong way, but it would be extremely rare for child NOT to stick foreign objects in the mouths. Here is just an example of explanation why they do it:

For infants and toddlers, there’s no such thing as the three-second rule – anything on the ground, whether it’s a fallen morsel of food, the dog’s gnarled chew toy or an old gob of gum, is fair game. And while it may not exactly meet your preferred standards of hygiene, the tendency small children have to put random objects in their mouths is, for the most part, completely normal.

“Infants explore everything with their mouths,” says Dr. Carla Fry, a registered psychologist in Vancouver. “Sucking and chewing on things is how they learn about their environment.”

Rachael, you're most welcome....however, leaf pulled off, itchy eye, rubs eye, sap in eye, screams, A&E Dept............

Gill

Can anyone ID the green little plant growing in the pot with it? I have another pot that has a ton of it and I love the look of it but have no idea what it is called.

Really????????

Hi Rachael

It looks like Sedum Japonica in the pot.

Echeveria "painted lady" isn't difficult to grow but they really need a lot of light and then the growth is compact. They do take a long time to root and hopefully your top will survive. I grow this one outside and it gets a couple of hours of morning sun and looks a bit dented after the hailstorm we had a couple of months ago but it really is doing very well outside