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Feb 7, 2018 11:52 AM CST
Name: Lynn
Oregon City, OR (Zone 8b)
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Hi Jasmine. I see others have already identified your wonderful plant as being a sempervivum.
Good news, it looks fairly healthy and will rebound once it has what it needs. It is what is called etiolated, caused from being indoors and not enough sunlight.
When spring arrives in your area you can plant them outdoors and leave them, either in the ground our in a container. They do need good drainage so they don't rot. A nice layer of chicken grit, or other small gravel, on the surface of the soil and under the plant leaves will keep the leaves up off of the soil.
You can also remove the offsets from the main rosette and replant them. If they already have some roots growing you can cut the stolon off and discard it. If no roots are visible leave a small section of the stolon and set the offset on the soil. It will start to form roots.

It will be interesting to see if moving them outdoors this spring will bring on some other colors besides the green. Many sempervivum change color with the season when outdoors.

Please keep us updated, I would love to see it progress. Hurray!

Sue, would you move this to the Sempervivum Forum?
Thank you so much for calling me on this question.

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