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title: "Please help! The leaves on my ghost succulent are shrinking up and…"
description: "Please help! The leaves on my ghost succulent are shrinking up and falling off? Is this a winter thing or am i over watering? I have it in this pot and i have…"
url: "https://getplanta.com/community/vOLjreBcQ-OpqrHIhVSc4w/8sWXSG0BQRG8AllWihZcSA"
community: "The Cactus & Succulent Circle"
author: "Plant lover 2000"
published: "2024-11-25T03:08:46.181487Z"
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# Please help! The leaves on my ghost succulent are shrinking up and…

_Posted by Plant lover 2000 on 2024-11-25_

Please help! The leaves on my ghost succulent are shrinking up and falling off? Is this a winter thing or am i over watering? I have it in this pot and i have no clue how to get the bottom off so it can drain🫣 PLEASE HELP ME! I have no clue what to do and this is my first ever succulent

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## 5 comments

### Plant lover 2000 commented on 2024-11-25

I did figure out how to remove the bottom so now it can drain... any other tips?

#### Ezzeldin Yaqoub replied on 2024-11-25

That is a normal thing, it is natural for succulents to lose leaves as they get older, so there is nothing to worried about. So as long as it is the older leaves falling off and not new ones or at an alarming rate, then everything is fine.

### Jesse904 commented on 2024-11-25

That is a moonstone succulent. I am currently dealing with the same thing with this plant, and my ghost plant.

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### BigGrac commented on 2024-11-25

This guy needs a lot more light! The leaves shouldn’t be that far apart, it’s stretching itself out to search for light

### Sunny commented on 2024-11-25

Insufficient light can show as dropped lower leaves and lanky growth. My graptopetalum dropped lower leaves, stretched and bent towards the light. The two plants were relocated to an outside planter where they get lots of bright light.

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