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title: "Does anyone know why a few of my dwarf gasteria’s leaves have become…"
description: "Does anyone know why a few of my dwarf gasteria’s leaves have become loose and came out? There’s no brown spots on any of them so I’m not sure what’s going on"
url: "https://getplanta.com/community/lKxUkhzRR_aIJD7o1QvtwQ/657545a989404b5570a5798f"
community: "Pests, diseases and problems"
author: "Emily"
published: "2023-12-10T04:59:21.227Z"
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# Does anyone know why a few of my dwarf gasteria’s leaves have become…

_Posted by Emily on 2023-12-10_

Does anyone know why a few of my dwarf gasteria’s leaves have become loose and came out? There’s no brown spots on any of them so I’m not sure what’s going on

![Attachment 1 of 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/CdcVBLRRaeQI6qWJwalwYCPptwb_a__8EL3B3rD5sls/878836271e87406398e5d7c641cc1c5a.webp?size=large)

## 13 comments

### Dave\_opuntiaface commented on 2023-12-10

To clarify: they were loose and you pulled them out or you found them outside the pot?

#### Emily replied on 2023-12-10

Yeah they were loose so I pulled them out, which now I don’t think I should have done that

#### Dave\_opuntiaface replied on 2023-12-10

Word. Just let them be and go back in time and pretend you didn’t notice ha. The thing that looks like a dowel was a three-foot flower that I wouldn’t stop messing with once it withered. I thought I was supposed to remove it - because it was loose - but someone told me stop messing with it. Ps Your plant looks super healthy.

![Attachment 1 of 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/gFKgBIDtQUSoNHyzAXA4pLM-wYI4yLGXFPAMGDtMt3o/a07b322a8904408795fd6f428fb4274b.webp?size=large)

#### Emily replied on 2023-12-10

Oh haha okay! I love your plant as well, very beautiful

#### Dave\_opuntiaface replied on 2023-12-11

Want to know what I did after this? I slightly wiggled some of the leaves.

#### Emily replied on 2023-12-11

Haha! It’s almost tempting for me to pull the loose ones out, but I’m refraining to do so

### Althepal54 commented on 2023-12-10

It could be normal leaf shed. Sometimes the bottom leaves just don’t receive the same amount of energy as the top growth points

#### Dave\_opuntiaface replied on 2023-12-10

Yes. And the leaves often don’t look ill when this happens.

#### Emily replied on 2023-12-10

Ohh makes sense. Will those leaves that fell off eventually grow roots or would they just die off?

#### Althepal54 replied on 2023-12-10

They’ll just die ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯

#### Dave\_opuntiaface replied on 2023-12-11

This is what I thought but hadn’t spent any time looking until now:

“Gasteria ‘Little Warty' will produce small offsets, sprouting up around the base of the plant. Simply pull these up and allow the offsets to dry for one to two days before replanting.”

Can you tell I’ve been thinking about this post a lot?

### Dave\_opuntiaface commented on 2023-12-11

Last comment I promise, but I gotta show you the flower. It grew a few inches one week, and then shot up and up. The flower would point in different directions during the day.

![Attachment 1 of 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/gFKgBIDtQUSoNHyzAXA4pLM-wYI4yLGXFPAMGDtMt3o/b22edbb5b3e34f80930d53c06e195a2e.webp?size=large)

#### Emily replied on 2023-12-11

Wow!! I’m a beginner with plants actually, so I never knew they could flower!! That’s so cool! I have another plant that looks similar to yours. It’s set low in the pot because it fell over and lost some soil

![Attachment 1 of 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/CdcVBLRRaeQI6qWJwalwYCPptwb_a__8EL3B3rD5sls/1ae6ee4b86cc42429feda43ebe8207ea.webp?size=large)

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