Gordon Bennet, more lessons learned.

1) Check and double check what your plant is before you try and "fix" etiolation, because it might just look like that. RIP Alfred.

2) Upside down planters - oh hell no. No. These are an incredibly expensive bad idea and just do NOT work. I tried strings of things in them, no dice. Tried ivy, nope they didn't like it either. Going to hang regular plants from the hooks in my ceiling and put the upside down ones away in the cupboard of SHAME until I can find something that will deign to grow in them.

3) Succulent propagation is NOT foolproof and you may lose most of the leaves you try to propagate from. Sad times. Don't be tempted to plant them up too soon if they just have roots, let them grow a little long before you even think of planting. If tiny little plantlets have grown as well as shoots, LEAVE THEM THE FUCK ALONE until the original leave has withered and popped off.

4) Cheap supermarket plants can come with problems. RIP Bill S. Preston, Esq; who succumbed to some crappy little aphids infesting his leaves.

5) Sometimes, plants just die. No rhyme or reason. Dead. Woke up one morning to my Alocasia Polly flat on its face, the stem had just randomly borked. Not rot, just snap. No idea how, because the soil was undisturbed etc. And one of my Spanish Moss Tilandsia plants just started to die upon arrival. I know, I know, airplants and me just don't get on - but the other Spanish Moss I have are doing not too bad...