Agree Tarev, and Cinta warmth is the secret to speed. For me I always get rot if I have them cold and trying to root them.

The changing colors and active growth of Aeoniums as it continues to wake up this Fall:

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My Aeoniums this winter 2015 into January 2016...been rainy here..but they are definitely enjoying this cool, rainy season nicely:

I've been enjoying all of the plant photos shown here. One of my favorites is the Senecio articulatus. I've had mine for years, and keep having segments knocked off by animals. Mine has never bloomed, although it looks happy and always has a lot of leaves. Are there any secrets you've found to getting them to bloom?

Hi Karen, I have not been able to make my Senecio articulatus bloom either..just getting those nice leaves. Senecio anteuphorbium on the other hand, seems easier to bloom, and always around Fall here when it makes the buds.

Thanks for that info, Tarev. I will see if I can find the one you mention. I don't think I've seen it locally, but maybe there is an online source. I'd love one that would bloom.

It is a sunshiny day today for a change with temps at 79F! A pretty day to take aeonium photos:
Aeonium arboreum green and very happy looking!


Aeonium Arboreum Zwartkop with the big Aeonium hierrense, like happy pals



Cuttings are doing just great! I like it when new growth is triggered on the bare stems:


I really like Aeonium arboreum Zwartkop at this time, it is not yet too dark with its leaves, still burgundy as it enjoys the cool temps

My Aeoniums are pouting bad this morning, overcast and rainy conditions not to its liking, poor thing!

Feb has been drier, how it looks like last 09Feb2016:


Today, 07Mar2016, with the rains over the weekend, and temps getting cooler..showing it is so unhappy!

My large ones are indoors Tarev - and this is nearly the end of their indoor stay so they are looking so bad I won't take a picture of them! I know they bounce back though!

Yes! Just keeping my hopes up that it will bounce back nicely once it gets warmer! I think the plant is telling me too, time to start to give more trimming..too leggy already. The other aeoniums I have are handling the rains quite okay, comparing them, they are much shorter.

Observing my wishy washy aenoniums..the last couple of days of dry period still not enough to perk it back to its usual good growing position. The sun has been hiding. Rain is coming this afternoon up to Sunday. Okay, I guess, just got to trim them now while it is still dry. Don't want to lose the whole plant. It will be ugly for awhile seeing sticks.

Sorry Tarev - I can understand about the seeing sticks thing haha! That is how many of mine are this time of year

Glad I am not alone with the sticks Greg I kept just a few of the rosettes on the mother plant, at least not too top heavy now I got a lot on another container. Glad the rains trying to get here yesterday did not pour yet, so one day of drying for it, hope that is enough. Still playing tag with the rains this morning.

Tarev I mix most of my plants in pots so I feel like the 'sticks' add an unusual feature

I do the same, my natural stakes

Always fun to catch Aeoniums waking up this Fall, and they are enjoying the rains too, just good timing! Sticks no more for some of the cuttings







I did have a summer casualty, my Aeonium hierrense. I really feel bad I lost two, but hoping it will follow similar cool season regrowth. I have only one left, and thankfully it caught up in time with the Fall cool down, so it seems perkier now:
My Aeonium hierrense last March 2016, showing just how green and big the rosettes were.


It was going good till July, but we have to leave last August, on our return it is lanky, which I attributed to the usual summer slow down. However two stems started to rot the leaves, so I just removed all of it and hope the stems will revive this Fall.

The sad leafless stems, so far stems still feels rigid and hard, maybe there is hope:


There is a portion on the lower part of the stem where it appears the bark has ruptured. Don't know if it has just dried out and healed itself, so far upper stem part remains stiff.


So now I only got this one Aeonium hierrense, hope it tries to make some more offshoots later in Spring.

Love that about these plants! It is funny we have opposite patterns since I bring my large pot inside for the winter they don't get enough humidity in the air so they begin to die back until spring

Summer is my dull growing period here for my succulents, especially when we start hitting that very dry 90F and higher. I think only my Adenium obesum is happiest when our temps soar that much, the others just rests and waits for Fall cool down.

Yeah that does sound hot. I'm so spoiled by Seattle's weather, went to MI this past August and everyone was saying how nice it was not too hot and humidity not terrible, they just don't know
So challenging sleeping in that weather!

Oh I know how you feel! When I was in Manila twice this year, such a shock always to the system the intense tropical humidity..sweating is a norm!