This is DDs plant but it has needed a transplant for months.
Nights are getting colder and I am bringing in the fragile ones.
Graptoveria Fred Ives before


Fred Ives after




A stem

Great work Jo Ann. Bet that stem will give you a bunch of new rosettes.
I look forward to seeing all the new growth next spring.

Looks good Jo Ann, since it is heading to cold conditions and being indoors, it will be slow growing, so do not water. I have done that before but I did it in mid-Spring and it took our intense summer heat and putting it in part shade to wake up those cuttings, but after that it is easy growing. Keep it as warm as you can.

Lynn : I have no idea what new growth will look like but your rosettes sound interesting. I have a vision of some sort of nubby topper on the stem.

tarev. Thanks for the advise. They are in a south facing window and on topof the heat run.
Crossing fingers.

@Jo Ann

Mine needs to be beheaded and was going to do it this summer but things got away from me. I am just going to wait until next summer because I am a bad mommy to my plants in the winter so I know I will kill the plant. I love the colors of this plant.

Cinta. It sure is a beautiful plant. Sometimes it's greyblue with lavender sometimes peach color.
Leaf shapes are graphic and simple. The whole effect is dramatic.

I love Graptoveria Fred Ives, one of my toughies here once those new leaves are out, it can take all the direct sun it can get. Such a sun worshipper. I get those lovely color hues in Spring.

Here is how mine grew from the cuttings I took in 2012:
July 2012


Sept 2012


Fast forward April 2015

And just look at all that wonderful color in April. That is beautiful tarev.

It is really colorful when temps are cooler..right now it is just grey green:


Jo Ann, you will notice later that fresh cut end of your plant, it will dry out and scab over, as it heals that end. I think it seems to wait for that to seal, then it focuses on having new growth.

It is still beautiful, and I love that it gets color changes seasonally.

Tarev, thanks so much for the preview and cut stem info. I did see the teenies at the top of the stem cutting. What a hoot. They will make a neat photo.
Fred Ives color cant be beat no matter what time of year it is.

I agree anytime of year I love the colors.

Tarev I wonder if it is your climate because mine never loses its color. I have never seen it show a grey green color. I love how it will not hesitate to start a new plant from a leaf. That is why I have it in all my pots. Whenever I bump it and a leaf falls off I throw it in another pot and I have another plant.

Oh I thought the grey green is its normal color during summer and warmer days.

Tarev, I love this forum. It is a eye opener how plants perform in different climates. I am amazed looking at your plant and the color I have never seen on this plant and I keep it in full blazing sun all summer. We even had a month of 90s and drought last month.

This year we got about no rain since mid March I think, then summer temps hitting 95F to 106F daytime and night time at 55F to 60F, but it does get part shade in the afternoon.

I tried to put some of it in a hanging basket, it decided to grow taller
Started like this in May 2012


Really pretty growing tall and getting the reddish orangey hues during Spring this year:


And photo during summer this year:

Oh my goodness that is funny. Was it reaching for sun?

I love the reaching grapto. It looks like a model for a cartoon, simple kid drawing.

Here is the parent Graptoveria.Inside for the winter.
North facing window.

Cinta, yes it is reaching for the sun That side of my garden, gets the early part of the sun at 10am and then it is shaded by the city trees by 1pm. So I guess it wants more!

JoAnn, cute grapto indoors! Aww..seems like mommy plant wants to go out and play some more I would really consider moving Graptoveria on its own container. It grows very aggressively.

Just some more background of my graptoveria.
I got this graptoveria from my aunt in 2010, started like this: the tall ones was the Graptoveria Fred Ives and the shorter one I found out later was Calandrinia spectabilis. They looked well behaved then. I was not familiar with their growth habits.


Then later on I realized, I should not have mixed these succulents with anyone, both are such aggressive growers, easily overrunning one another, took me awhile to separate the two
Photo in Oct 2011:


Last photo together in 2012 before repot: It was nice though, so tempted to leave them alone, Graptoveria was blooming in late winter, blooms reminds me of typical echeveria style:





But I am glad I repotted and removed them to its own containers, now I got more