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title: "This paddle plant has clearly been hitting the gym … grew like crazy…"
description: "This paddle plant has clearly been hitting the gym … grew like crazy in a pot with no drainage holes 😂! Now it’s top heavy and ready to flop. Do I repot?…"
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community: "Anything about plants"
author: "Ash 💕🌿🌸"
published: "2025-09-05T12:17:32.689679Z"
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# This paddle plant has clearly been hitting the gym … grew like crazy…

_Geplaatst door Ash 💕🌿🌸 op 2025-09-05_

This paddle plant has clearly been hitting the gym … grew like crazy in a pot with no drainage holes 😂! Now it’s top heavy and ready to flop. Do I repot? Stake? Help a plant parent out! 🙏🏼

Left: after last summer → Right: after this summer

![Bijlage 1 van 2](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/7F6iEUlTA0H4goNbIHHM3azBpdK6YFbqKIDOFVKzr0o/yXQvsbMFSAy1SEakD0eaCw.webp?size=large)

![Bijlage 2 van 2](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/7F6iEUlTA0H4goNbIHHM3azBpdK6YFbqKIDOFVKzr0o/IqMvO9TJRJKdnSJsBiRtNA.webp?size=large)

## 15 reacties

### Gabe reageerde op 2025-09-05

I would chop it right above those wilting leaves remove a bunch of those leaves on the bottom of the cutting and pot it up. If it gets some good light it shouldn’t stretch like that.

#### Ash 💕🌿🌸 antwoordde op 2025-09-05

Okay perfect!!! When you chop, do you put in water first, get roots and then soil? 🤷🏻‍♀️ What about its babies?

### happysoxdonkey reageerde op 2025-09-05

Bro didn’t skip leg week lol

#### Ash 💕🌿🌸 antwoordde op 2025-09-05

Clearly on plantoids! 🤣

### Phil reageerde op 2025-09-05

Yep chop and prop because it has become too leggy. Should look more like my pic.

![Bijlage 1 van 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/OWAkyZxcZtwxk-v_HG7sG7i-GaZeWOFpvbl_VkIbhkY/ha7MhMo5RZu3BaZM4VHVjw.webp?size=large)

#### Ash 💕🌿🌸 antwoordde op 2025-09-05

OMG yours are so beautiful! 😂🤌🏼🙌🏼 Defiantly going to do this, thank you!!! 🙏🏼

### LittleMorningLatte reageerde op 2025-09-06

What is bro on?? That thing is taller then my dad-

#### Ash 💕🌿🌸 antwoordde op 2025-09-06

😂😂😂

### 🪴 Botanical Bekka🌵 reageerde op 2025-10-13

🪴🧡 I wondered if anybody else in the group had paddle plants

![Bijlage 1 van 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/5A7OWgM6nyZ8PHvm1KUPbj8itNxf6vmJBgk7cbzGZFk/n_bGYfIZR4K5zfgwQIbgKA.webp?size=large)

### 🪴 Botanical Bekka🌵 reageerde op 2025-10-13

, I have mine in full sun all day🪴🧡 I wondered if anybody else in the group had paddle plants

![Bijlage 1 van 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/5A7OWgM6nyZ8PHvm1KUPbj8itNxf6vmJBgk7cbzGZFk/LiYWstUVSz-IelIUuPYmGw.webp?size=large)

#### Ash 💕🌿🌸 antwoordde op 2025-10-14

I love it, but it’s so freaking big now! 😂 I can’t believe it’s grown so big in the little tiny pot it’s been in too!!!

### 🪴 Botanical Bekka🌵 reageerde op 2025-10-13

🪴🧡

![Bijlage 1 van 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/5A7OWgM6nyZ8PHvm1KUPbj8itNxf6vmJBgk7cbzGZFk/7OyRsBaGQ8OSRrkzFfUnLQ.webp?size=large)

#### Ash 💕🌿🌸 antwoordde op 2025-10-14

OMG Yay!!! 🙌🏼🫶🏻 Mine is so big now, I am afraid to chop it! 🫣😅

### 🪴 Botanical Bekka🌵 reageerde op 2025-10-15

I feel the same way it freaks me out chopping my echeverias 😭😭 but they typically do good it says they're easy to propagate(\*\*click on screenshot)

![Bijlage 1 van 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/5A7OWgM6nyZ8PHvm1KUPbj8itNxf6vmJBgk7cbzGZFk/VUgRWWEEQpS0ji0wkDSs5w.webp?size=large)

#### Ash 💕🌿🌸 antwoordde op 2026-01-31

I’ve since chopped this plant completely 😂🌿🙋🏻‍♀️ I have pieces of it all over the house now!

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