Oh man, that color is just amazing. Thanks so much for posting it, Cinta ... maybe someday I will have something you want to trade for a chunk of that? It's probably quite available here, it's just that so many times it's incorrectly ID'd.

Nice deep color. And bell shaped. Nice.

Hello! Beautiful pics everyone!! Just wanted to post a few pics of the cuttings Stush sent me. I put it outside and it's doing a ton better!! Even getting new growth. Thank you Stush for sharing!! :grouphug:

My cuttings' siblings!! Nice photos Audrie!

Swayback, I wonder if perhaps your plant got cold damaged?

I'm really thrilled. My "boss" at the botanical gardens just gave me a two-fisted rooted cutting of S. leendertziae. He said his was getting out of control, hah! What a great guy.

It's gotten so bad this last bloom came out with a bug section of the bloom having almost no purple, but there's bright pink spot on the back of the flower...
The general appearance of the plant looks like mosaic, which staps are susceptible to...

Gotcha... sorry about that. Sounds like sterile planting medium is the way to go... I just read a great article on using coir chips, from Mark Dimmit who is a bit of a guru. You might want to look into getting some of them...

Audrie
My pleasure. Looking nice. I hope they bloom for you this year.

Sheryl
Way to go. Nice having friends. Picture?

Swayback
I don't know about this 'mosaic virus'. I have heard about this in Amaryillis. Is it real bad? I don't know it I have it and don't want to spread it around. Can good cuttings be free of this or the whole plant is infected? During hot summer my plant turns brownish and that is when it blooms.

Stush

sheryl said:Swayback, I wonder if perhaps your plant got cold damaged?

I'm really thrilled. My "boss" at the botanical gardens just gave me a two-fisted rooted cutting of S. leendertziae. He said his was getting out of control, hah! What a great guy.

Great gift!!

Stush2019 said:Audrie
My pleasure. Looking nice. I hope they bloom for you this year.

Sheryl
Way to go. Nice having friends. Picture?

Swayback
I don't know about this 'mosaic virus'. I have heard about this in Amaryillis. Is it real bad? I don't know it I have it and don't want to spread it around. Can good cuttings be free of this or the whole plant is infected? During hot summer my plant turns brownish and that is when it blooms.

Stush

You can count in any virus being systemic and the entire plant will be infected!
Without sending material to a lab there's no way if knowing what it is for sure..
I'm pretty familiar with mosaic, it's prominent here, mostly TMV, what I've read is that staps are susceptible to cucumber mosaic, which I'm less familiar with, and to honest I've never seen mosaic in a succulent, but it looks distinctly like mosaic on my staps.
I've grown healthy ones for years, I know how they should look, I don't mind the bark that they get with age, age cold damage seems inevitable, and unsightly too, but it's different.
This swooped in all at once 2 summers ago and quickly marred the entire plant, there were no harsh conditions to cause damage.

I'm over it now, I've tossed all but 2 and they are going too, it's really not a huge loss, only 5 or 6 species, ill get more in a year or 2 once things settle down and there's no traces of it around...


If you wanna hear a real scary story, stush, at times I've wondered if it infected my sans collection... I THINK they are just suffering from cold damage tho... It's concentrated in S. cylindrica...

I'll get better pics before I toss any more, I want to pluck some random babies out of the big pot, it's full of other little stuff

LOL - a picture of my plants or my friend?

Swayback,
Thank you for the reply. I hope I don't get that. But I never heard of any virus affecting Sans. before. On another forum I belong to, we have many expert Sans growers. Even some book authors. I have never heard them mention this. Please tell me more about this and I will mention this to them. I know of Hosta X virus and it was intentional to create new cultivars, which backfired on them.
Stush

This flower popped open today, so popped in to pop up a pic. Another bud to the right of the flower.

Tiffany that is a pretty one. Does it stink?

Mine are finally taking off. Just potted them in good size heavy pots and put them on the wall. Tell me... when it starts to rain heavily should I move them under shelter?

Rhapsody

Most likely not in your area.

They don't mind getting WET, it's the staying wet that will do em in.

Each species is different but most I've grown will do just fine with regular waterings as long as the soils very fast draining.

If it's going to rain for more than 3 days then some shelter would be good.

Cinta, I've sniffed it a couple times & there's no scent this time. The last time it bloomed, it did smell bad, but faintly.

Swayback said:Most likely not in your area.

They don't mind getting WET, it's the staying wet that will do em in.

Each species is different but most I've grown will do just fine with regular waterings as long as the soils very fast draining.

If it's going to rain for more than 3 days then some shelter would be good.

Thanks bunches. I will do that!