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Jun 15, 2014 11:20 PM CST
Name: Bev
Salem OR (Zone 8a)
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Hello Kara, Welcome! to ATP!

From what I see, I think your plant looks more like a Echeveria Perle Von Nurnberg. I could be wrong but my Chroma has a thicker look with its chunkier and shorter leaves...Was it definitely ID'ed as Chroma?
Anyway, whatever it is, it is definitely etiolated and I do see what looks like a divot, which may have resulted from an injury or jab. If you see something looking more like a slight bump of a brownish color then I might suspect something invasive like scale...???

Plant looks healthy for now but, as Cinta suggested, it needs more light. With more light, the top center will become more compact but the rest will stay leggy. You also have a few fingerprints on the leaves which can take away from the frosty look of these echeverias. On some of these, there's a fine coating that fingers rub away...

Also, a few things you can do to get this plant more to its ideal beyond being in better health:

You can pull, with a slight twist, the very bottom leaves off and propagate them to form new plants.

Or you can cut the top half of the plant off and let the open cut callous for a few days. After callousing you can try and root the head. This helps in getting you a plant with a more compact rosette shape.

The leftover stem will hopefully branch out with two new heads.

Good Luck and Enjoy! Smiling

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