James, same to you! After the holiday the Photo Hungry Mob will want to see your plants!!!!! Pictures please.

Greg you should be very happy your younger than I thought!!! I will never tell!!!!!

Hi James.
I also look forward to seeing photos of your plants.
And Merry Christmas to you, and may your Christmas be filled with blessings.

Off topic can't resist three photos of my brothers dog and cats



Looks like the poor dog always gives up her bed for the cats
Happy New Year everyone

Thanks for breaking the picture drought. Very nice kitties and doggy, and an impressive sneaker collection. I like both cats and dogs but dogs are generally too high maintenance for me.

Christmas is over thank goodness. Too many drinks. Too much Christmas ham. Too many Christmas cookies. Too much everything. I feel like an overstuffed Christmas goose.

Here is 'Charolensis' which is supposed to be always green but showing some whiteness creeping in like a previous photo Greg posted. Despite being constantly splashed in mud, this semp feels rock solid. I'm starting to wonder about this. All my semps planted on bare soil have dirt splashed into and filling the gaps between the leaves. This doesn't seem to bother them at all. In fact, I wonder if having sandy soil packed between the leaves is preferable to water sitting in there. Time may tell.



And here is 'Pacific Hep' which I believe is in serious trouble. Notice the softening and browning leaves here and there. I think it's just a matter of time. I don't plan any emergency measures.



If any rosettes are uninfected, will they generally become infected if still attached to the infected mother rosette?
Perhaps cutting the stolons to the two lower (apparently uninfected) chicks would be advisable as I am pretty sure there are some roots down.

I'm seeing Greg's previous post twice. My last "beverage" was three days ago and I'm still seeing double.

I deleted the duplicate post Tim.

Yep, Greg you got the photo ball rolling, thank you. Great dog and cat photos. Poor puppy, having to scrunch up in the smaller cat bed.

Tim my 'Pacific Hep' is looking pretty sad right now. Lots of rot/rain damage, also in the 'Hepsport'. They are definitely not water lovers.
Your 'Charolensis' is looking great.

valleylynn said:
Tim my 'Pacific Hep' is looking pretty sad right now. Lots of rot/rain damage, also in the 'Hepsport'. They are definitely not water lovers.

So... there's such a thing as "water damage" that is not a systemic rot and is survivable? Does your Hep look as bad as mine?
Or are they both goners?

Tim I usually remove ones that look okay because the rot may not be contagious but whatever is causing the rot is going to impact any plants in that spot.
Just had ta show off the bambini (or as I say, my nieces and nephews!)

Tim mine has always recovered. Yours actually looks better than mine does right now. I should go out and see if I can get a new photo before I leave for work.

Must show you this.

I shot this picture of 'Dunstan' in the dusk, last sunday. Sun was gone and light with mystic color. (Exposure time: 16 seconds)


And shot a picture of 'Dunstan' wit leaves like 'Fame Monstrose'

And this:

'Pink Pashka' (yesterday afternoon in the dusk)

Fantastic pictures Wolfgang, perfect for these dreary winter days .

The intensity of color in the 'Dunstan' photo is spectacular, and how interesting to see the monstrose form of 'Dunstan'.
I love the detail in your photos Wolfgang.

Wow!
that is really fantastic Wolfgang! very neat color

here are my colorful semps

oh, wait--that's a rock. Semps are waiting under the snow...
and look at this disaster

the bottom of this pot cracked right off yikes
I figured that might be too much semp torture, so I brought them in and thawed them out so that I could pry out the poor one in the broken pot and put in in something else.
Then we had a wicked cold snap.

And now I don't really know what to do--like if I put them right back outside they will go from 70 to 6 degrees. That's probably not so good. I'm thinking I should refreeze the semps more gradually, any suggestions?

You can put them in your unheated garage until spring. They will do just fine. How many days were they in the house?

Yikes, that is a disaster. I'm surprised if they're alive. I would just try to keep them in a cold, dry place like a garage window sill. And wait for the weather to ease up a bit. I would also try to keep any rain off of them when they're outside. How did they get covered in ice? An ice storm? Freezing rain? Rain followed by freeze? Those are semp killers. Snow is one thing, ice is another. But I guess you're aware of that already.

oh dear
They have been in the house for five days now. I was hoping we would warm up a bit. We will, eventually. I just don't know when.
Garage is unattached block of ice--it's 10 degrees in there.
Refrigerator maybe? until we get some days in the 30's?

And how did they get like that? Well, first was the rain, then the freezing rain, then the snow, and then more snow, then the sun came out and melting occurred with refreezing and then more snow, and some more melting and refreezing--you know, the usual
Actually, they are pretty tough. These guys have been living in that little pot hanging off the porch suffering this abuse for several winters. Year before last, there were wicked icicles from the roof through the pot and into the pot below, and more than half of their grit washed out. I am surprised the pot didn't bust then. It was hanging more tilted that year though because one of the hangers broke.

Wolfgang love those pictures both of them!!! The monstrose one looks like a haworthia!!

Enclosed some semp & jovibarba winter impressions I caught on foto today in a public garden nearby...looks more like autumn than winter with these rich red and green hues.

Dirt, your right, they really are tough plants. I wouldn't worry about the cold. I would do like Tim said, just keep them dry and they should be fine.

Michael what a great find on your walk. And how wonderful to be able to see them this time of year. Looks like your winter has not arrived yet.