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Wildbloomers said:I'd say that your plant has never been given sufficient light and is suffering because of that lack. The internode length is too long, the leaves are thinner than normal and it lacks the characteristic red striping that has people marketing it online with the incorrect name Kalanchoe tigrina. This data base has many pictures of K. humilis to indicate what it should look like. Plants grown in insufficient light tend to be weaker and susceptible to many issues. I don't know where you live so I can't address temperature/watering issues. We have very high humidity here and it rains often in the "winter" when you might expect excess water to cause issues for this plant. It doesn't. Also we have a dry season in the middle of summer when it doesn't rain for a week or more and then it pours. Plants grown in full sun don't even blink, in fact they flower. I would find a way to slowly move your plant into a high light situation as it recovers. If your temperatures are already dropping you may need to move it inside so that it has time to recover from its weakened state.

Thanks for the reply! I got this kal at a garden shop sale - it was in pretty bad shape then, so it would fit your theory on the lack of light. I sohuld've put it in more direct light over this summer, but now it's inside suffering again... Won't make the same mistake next year!
I'd appreciate if you could check out my new post about placing a grow light over it at The thread "My plants are etiolated, aren't they - and an inquiry about grow lights" in Houseplants forum