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title: "ADVICE PLEASE 🙏🏼 I got these cute little succulents about 1 year…"
description: "ADVICE PLEASE 🙏🏼 I got these cute little succulents about 1 year ago & they’ve been growing their little hearts out on the window sill. Family watered while…"
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community: "The Cactus & Succulent Circle"
author: "Readsngreens"
published: "2025-08-12T21:37:17.761439Z"
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# ADVICE PLEASE 🙏🏼 I got these cute little succulents about 1 year…

_Posted by Readsngreens on 2025-08-12_

ADVICE PLEASE 🙏🏼 I got these cute little succulents about 1 year ago \& they’ve been growing their little hearts out on the window sill. Family watered while I was abroad \& I got back to find this… I know bottom leaves shrivel off as a succulent grows upward…. But they’ve seemed to grow a little \*too much\*.

Tried looking in plant books \& online \& yet I can’t find good guidance on why to do when such a large percentage of the plant dried out. Most places say to just pick off the dead leaves - but there’s so much stem on these that they can’t even hold themselves up. What do I do? Put them in bigger pots \& give them support? Can I chop off/bury the entire stem \& just leave the healthy tops?

The tops are still growing - I see them sprout new leaves \& get taller every week.

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## 1 comment

### Wolfen 🐺 commented on 2025-08-13

I'd first just return them to your normal care, and let them settle. Then look at beheading and propping them after a few weeks.

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