New growth over etoliated growth

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Shane
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New growth over etoliated growth

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I moved my plants to a brighter room because they were getting etoliated and unhealthy in general. They're healthy now and growing very tight new growth. I'm worried about the etoliated stems not supporting the new growth. They look like lollipops. Should I be worried?
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Re: New growth over etoliated growth

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Shane wrote: Fri Feb 16, 2018 9:51 am I moved my plants to a brighter room because they were getting etoliated and unhealthy in general. They're healthy now and growing very tight new growth. I'm worried about the etoliated stems not supporting the new growth. They look like lollipops. Should I be worried?
What plants do you have and how bad is the etiolation?
It's common with some succulents (e.g. many Echeverias) to cut off the heads periodically and re-rot them because they tend to grow long unsightly stems which don't suit pot cultuire well.
If you cut them back, and discard the length of etiolated stem, most succulents will also grow new heads from below the cut, which can work well for many plants by encouraging them to branch, e.g. Aeoniums.
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Re: New growth over etoliated growth

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I agree with esp. Etiolatation is my main propagation method for some echeverias. I let them etiolate over winter, remove the middle leaves and cut and propagate the new head in spring
Here are the results:
Old stem with 4 offsets
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Re: New growth over etoliated growth

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What plants do you have and how bad is the etiolation?
It's a mix, there's sedum, ?sedervia, graptosedum, maybe others. Most were from unidentified cuttings and I'm waiting until they're older to try to ID them. And I should have said this to stat with, but these are all small, young plants and I'm not sure they're big enough to successfully cut and restart

And how bad is it? I'm attaching pictures of the ones I'm most worried about. You can see I already added sticks to support some of them
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