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Katherine

Hi! *Beheading question! I’m not sure if my other posts are visible here but I’m very new to keeping succulents, and VERY new to keeping them alive. Still not sure I’m doing that, but we persist. My plant IDs might be off, so please feel free to correct me! I have an important question about my echeveria chroma (again, not 100% on the ID, but it was advertised as such) and potential beheading! Before I get too crazy and have to learn how to properly behead a plant, can anyone tell me if this is beheading material, decent growth, etc? I think I expected this plant, as an echeveria, to be more compact (I have an echeveria painted lady that is very stereotypically beautiful!) but upon arrival it had a bit of height to it. Much to my surprise and delight, this thing has been GROWING. I think there was new leaf formation daily for the first few weeks. It’s gotten slower now as the two bigger “rosettes” have formed at the top, but when the plant arrived it was very plain looking and had no rosette formations. I think they’re beautiful, and they look like a good thing, but I don’t want to ruin them before they get a chance to thrive! I’ve had it for about a month and have attached photos with the newest leaves, both with the area I am concerned about circled and without, for visibility! I don’t want this little portion of the plant to die due to its position in between two other main stems, but I have NO idea what I’d be getting myself into removing part of this plant and attempting to get it to root, etc. Overall, the plant seems really healthy and happy (yay!) but I want to keep it that way, and I know with succulents, typically, less is more. I also understand that this is not propagating, so the entire process would look different than removing a single leaf, and there’s a chance the removed leaves/rosettes/baby plant(?) won’t make it or I’ll traumatize the original plant. What would you do?! If there’s any info I can add that would be helpful, please let me know! I appreciate all information in advance — the internet is vast and conflicting and I consistently get great, helpful feedback on this app. Any advice is welcome, and highly appreciated! Thank you! (Please ignore the ~etoliated leaf. We’re doing our best here and it was really long when I got it!)

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  1. Phil

    No need to worry, and no need to be cutting anything. This is all normal growth for a Chroma. Echeveria need sun or very bright grow lights. It appears that yours may not be getting enough. Chroma is a very colorful plant when it gets enough light.

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  2. Phil

    My light judgement is based on the stem length and leaf spacing. But may be wrong cause I do not have one currently.

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    • Katherine

      Probably an accurate lighting assessment, and I also appreciate your response to my question about cutting! I have awful east-facing window access, and outside temperatures have been unbelievably high — I don’t love bringing them back and forth between room temp and 98°F, but they’ll be outside after their next watering in another two weeks or so. I did just upgrade their grow light, so hopefully that helps with the lighting. I’ve mostly given up on my sempervivum — it was my first plant and unfortunately, I had no clue that it had such demanding light requirements. It might just be incredibly difficult to keep them mostly indoors, but I know it’s been done and I’ll keep trying! Thank you!! Oh! And to add: it has gotten so much color since it was new to me! It looks very dull underneath its grow light where these were taken, but the lower leaves are a more vivid green than they appear near the stem, and the top of each leaf is tinged purple when it was solid green before. Each rosette has started green and become more red/violet as it’s grown, and now that I notice, more with the newest grow light. I’m hoping that’s a good sign for the rest of them! Thank you for the reminder about chroma’s colors — I often confuse stress colors with “happy colors” :)

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    • Phil

      All my tender succulents get supplemented with grow lights. I don’t keep them outside. Pics are some of my most colorful. Check out my Planta.

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    • Laura T

      Hi Phil! Love your setups. New to succulents and was wondering is you could share pot dimensions, soil mix, etc. Thx

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