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title: "What happened to my Bunny Ear Cactus? It’s been fine for years… and…"
description: "What happened to my Bunny Ear Cactus? It’s been fine for years… and then one day I woke up to it looking Iike this!? 😫"
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community: "Anything about plants"
author: "🌱"
published: "2023-06-13T22:39:01.43Z"
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# What happened to my Bunny Ear Cactus? It’s been fine for years… and…

_Posted by 🌱 on 2023-06-13_

What happened to my Bunny Ear Cactus? It’s been fine for years… and then one day I woke up to it looking Iike this!? 😫

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## 7 comments

### Moonshine commented on 2023-06-14

Looks like it needs way more light. The new growth is really elongated. I have one of these and it’s about 6” under a grow light—that’s the only way it’s happy! And it’s still not really that happy lol

![Attachment 1 of 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/K7eOZjLmDwKg4R_oh6kDqlOChbVqLM5utBy7-3yeTYg/9231ab1119a84720a437840e77cf10db.webp?size=large)

### Jo commented on 2023-06-14

Mine has done something similar. It has been doing this for a while now. It lives right under a grow light and gets 12 hours a day.

![Attachment 1 of 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/eCRk0bmY82MG5OUEUHcaZ8D6x77HD7VSMeVc302qfI4/1c8079e0205c4d0c9cd5415b0bc2ebfc.webp?size=large)

#### Pliny the Elder replied on 2023-06-15

Severely etiolated. It needs much stronger grow lights.

#### Jo replied on 2023-06-29

What do you think would help? Does it need to be closer to the light, or longer light exposure, a different kind of light, or?

### ✨Camille✨ commented on 2023-06-15

Ummmmmm that’s weird how it ended up like that 😂😂

#### 🌱 replied on 2023-06-15

Right?! It’s like the bottom nub just decided to drop them in rejection 😂

### 🌱 commented on 2023-06-16

I think I figured out the problem… I repotted this and put some rocks on top of the soil… and I don’t think it had enough drainage 😣 the bottom OG nub was kinda rotted out and the soil was sopping. 😥

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