Wow Kate very pretty!!! I love that they aren't fully opened - makes them look a little like pine cones or something

Those are beautiful.

Yeah, green pine cones or some sort of euphorbia-like arms on cactus...

Did you guys see this? Gorgeous! @dirtdorphins

That's a lot of blooms Kate! Such cool plants.

I see some babies to carry on in dirtsorphins photo also.

Wow--thank you Julia!
It is a uniquely colored plant that I am quite fond of--really hoping that those babies will carry on.
Last year, I just had one huge bloom and these are all the offsets from the original. They did manage to winter over somehow in that tiny dish of a pot. I suppose if it happened once it could happen again, right?

It is a stunning photo dirtdorphins. Keeping my fingers crossed for you, that it will repeat this years success.

Oh dang--it looks like the babies' babies are also trying to bloom--what the???
I'll be kinda sad if I have fledgling colony collapse after all this, with only some solace that I got a decent photo or two...but at least there is that
Thank you all for the thumbs!

It does look like you'll have some babies left unbloomed though!

Do you think they have enough time to set mature seed?

valleylynn said:Kate, where have you been?
Wow, there should be lots of seed to get them going again next year. Still lots of rosettes left that have not bloomed.

Hey, I'm in the landscape business - gratefully, I've been really busy this season. I doubt that there will be enough time for them to bloom out and mature viable seed. We've already had a hard frost. I'm absolutely thrilled that they survived this past winter: I've never had any luck with any of the oros before. But there are a few rosettes that won't bloom this year, so I'll have enough for a new start next season.

Just got all my beds covered up to keep all the billions of black locust leaves out. Took a day and a half as more than a few had already fallen onto the plants and had to be picked out before the covers went on.

Wow, you are just a bundle of energy. It is good to see you again.

Good to read an update from you, Kate! Take care and have good Fall and Winter seasons!

Welcome here for a minute Kate!!

gg5 said:It does look like you'll have some babies left unbloomed though!

I dunno--they are all doing something weird--
the light was atrocious and I couldn't hold still (cold out there tonight!) so here are a couple really BAD pics
of the weirdness and baby blooms? or could they be be stoloniferous proliferations? or am I making up words just hoping they don't die?



time enough to set seed? not here! I might be sharing pics of snow covered frozen blooms though

"Dirtd" wow those are some very cool photos!! Just amazing detail - not shaky at all! I do think they are "coning" (making blooms) but maybe since they will be slowed down due to the weather, they will return in the spring!!

ah--coning--that's the word...
and that's what I feared.

Well, here's hoping one or two don't succeed in that endeavor
And if they all go out with a bang, I give myself permission to acquire a cool new plant--and that's always fun too

haha yes there is that - replacing a cool plant with another cool plant!

Great close up pictures! My big iwarenge bloomed itself to death last year, but that too went out with a spectacular show. Hope some of your babies make it.

Orostachys japonica I thought mine had died off so replanted the pot with little semps...yesterday I noticed one baby in amongst the semps!! Now that's exciting