AT A GLANCE
If a houseleek grows tall, this is usually due to a lack of light. To solve the problem, you should move the plant to a location in full sun, repot healthy, compact daughter rosettes like offshoots, or overwinter as a bright and cool houseplant.
Houseleek is growing - what to do?
Lack of light causes a houseleek (Sempervivum) to grow unsightly and stretched upwards. During this process, the light-hungry rock rose tries to to develop new sources of light. The shapely, compressed growth of the leaf rosettes falls by the wayside. In technical jargon, the unnatural increase in height is called greed or anxiety drives. Simple countermeasures solve the problem:
- Transplant rosettes of leaves that have not fallen off.
- Prescribe a change of location for potted houseleek.
- Preventive against anxiety urges one Houseleek in the pot hibernate properly.
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How are leaf rosettes that have not fallen off transplanted?
Plant parts affected by stretched height growth are irreparably damaged. If a plant has leaf rosettes that have not wilted, you can use them
save houseleek. To do this, cut off a healthy, compact daughter rosette with a sharp, sanitized knife. At the new location, plant the houseleek offshoot in sandy-gravelly, slightly acidic soil and water with soft water. The parts of the plant that got out of shape are disposed of.At which location does a houseleek not grow tall?
Houseleek species are the sun worshipers among the thick-leaf plants (Crassulaceae). In full sun there is no reason for Sempervivum to fear growing taller. The Steinrose is ready to compromise penumbra, as long as the sun's rays shine over the leaf rosettes for at least four hours a day.
On the other hand, the houseleek does not just acknowledge a place in the shade with a shapeless, stretched growth habit. Chlorophyll deficiency associated with the lack of light also causes pale yellow or brown leaf discoloration.
What helps against anxiety drives on a houseleek as a houseplant?
Room gardeners: indoors, they often complain that their houseleek is growing. Winter, in particular, dismisses the succulent potted plant with long, weak fear shoots. It doesn't have to come to that. With this care you can prevent winter damage to a houseleek houseplant effective before:
- houseleek spend the winter bright and cool.
- Set up at a minimum of 3500 lux and 3° to 8° Celsius from October to March.
- Not fertilize.
- Do not water or water very sparingly if the leaves shrivel.
Tip
Height gain at flowering is normal
If a houseleek stretches towards the sky when it is in bloom, this is nothing to worry about. Every houseleek blooms once in its floral life. For this reason, the shoot axis forms a tightly upright long shoot that rises from the leaf rosette. The flower stalk is up to 60 cm high and covered with fleshy leaves like an imbricated tile and bears pink, cream-colored or yellow individual flowers.
