valleylynn said:If you have a smart phone you can look them up in the database by name, and do a comparison to see if they look accurate. Or just post here, and one of us can look at the plant/photo for you and help decide if it is a correctly named semp.
valleylynn said:Hi ofm, they do appear to be dehydrated. How often are they getting water?
What type of soil are they growing in?
With the weather we have been having lately in the Willamette Valley, I would water them maybe once a week, in the evening.
Mine started to look like that because I hadn't been water. Once I started watering they quickly improved in color and health.
Just don't water in the heat of the day. That will steam cook them.
webesemps said:I was sticking to a watering regimen of once a week for my semp bed last year and found that my semps didn't look
as good as I thought they should. So this year I started to water twice a week especially on those hot days of 90 degree temps which can affect my semp bed when the full sun hit it from 11am to 4pm. I also put a shade cloth or frost cloth (which ever is the biggest sheet available in the stack) over them during the full sun exposure. Both changes have helped. When it cools down from those high temps, I water only once a week.
Btw, Ofm, those hens sure are prolific. I thought my hen with 25 offsets was impressive. Your two hens each are forming a colony...