Early Signs if Possible Light Starvation
Here’s my echeveria raindrops right after I took it out of the greenhouse and put it in the basement. The color looks really nice because of the cold stress.
This is the same echeveria a month later.
You can see how he center leaves are significantly greener than the others. Part of this is because they aren’t being frozen to death and have less stress coloring, but it could also be a sign that the plant may start stretching soon. I know his particular plant normally has a more blue-green tint to the leaves, so the greener green leads me to believe it may need to be closer to the grow light.
In my experience, plants will turn a bright green when they’re trying to suck in as much light as possible because that’s the most efficient color for photosynthesis. It’s really easy to see this on black plants like black princes or this pink granite that’s started stretching since coming into the basement.
If the raindrops starts stretching, loosing the bumps on the leaves or getting significantly smaller, greener leaves towards the center, I’ll know the plant is light starved and I’ll prop it closer to the light.
