Hello everyone! I have a question, I'm don't have the best green thumb when it comes to succulents but I was recently given a succulent and it did pretty well for the first month before it started to look a bit down. It's leaves began to fall of easily when the pot is moved. I'm not sure if its too much water, not enough sunlight, or too little of both. I placed it outside for a bit but the sun burned it. Also the new growth is very small and the branches are long, wilt, and snap easily. So its a bit of a dilemma but any help is appreciated, thank you all!!!

Here are some pictures of the plant and pictures of the leaves that keep falling down:

More light. The more, the better indoors. Right in front of your sunniest southerly facing window would be ideal (assuming you're in the northern hemisphere). Outdoor sun is fundamentally harsher, and to be avoided after a plant has been in low light for a while. You risk the death of your plant if you park it in outdoor (direct) overhead sun at this time of year. To be able to handle outdoor sun, your plant would need a period of gradual stepwise accommodation over weeks starting in bright (outdoor) shade.

Thank you for your reply! I live in Southern California and the heat and sun have been pretty intense. The succulent was outside for one afternoon and I immediately brought it in after one afternoon seeing it was burnt. So is it mainly because of the lack of proper light that the plant's leaves are falling and becoming weaker?

I would think stronger light would only help. I'm not 100% sure what's going on, but under low light conditions stems tend to stretch out and reach for more light, and with some succulents there is a companion effect where the leaves get smaller and smaller as the stem gets longer and longer. I don't really know what your plant is, or if it's really many plants in one pot, maybe someone else will chime in on that subject. But I do see some leaves lower down on the stems that look different from the more recent ones, and that would seem to suggest that maybe at some point in the past the plant was getting more light, and then conditions changed. If it's an indoor plant, it should "see" the sun for hours a day year round, with no curtain or blinds in the way.

The difference between indoor and outdoor sun (other than geometry, as a window is fundamentally limited in how much sun it can receive) has to do with the way regular window glass filters out much of the harmful UV portion of the spectrum. That's not something our eyes see, but it's there in outdoor sun and greatly diminished indoors. Succulents can build up resistance to these rays (after all, they grow outside in the sun in nature) but it takes some time for that to happen. By all means leave your plant outside if you're in SoCal, unless it's painfully hot, just go in tiny baby steps as you dial up the light. But indoors there is basically no way you can provide too much sun, it's impossible unless the plant is coming out of really deep shade.

Ohhh got it, thank you very much for the advice and new information! I moved it to a window that has sun for most of the day. I wasn't told what species of succulent it was but it was definitely something I hadn't seen before. Especially because of the fan like and woody structure of the plant. Thanks again! :D

Doesn't that look like too intense sun light burn?