Most generously sized plants there, and healthy looking, that was my experience with my SMG order. In one of my 14 selections ordered, I got 2x 'Pumaros' but able to pot up 7 pots. Next time I order from them will get some heuffs.

Yes, SMG gives me twice what I need. So I guess I'll pot up the rest and bring them to the clinic.

Tim those look great!

Here is one I got last year as a very tiny single rosette. This spring it is starting to live up to it's name.
Photo taken today:


I bet this would be pretty growing next to 'Gold Bug' or 'Orange Tip'.

Lynn that's a lovely one!

Thank you Greg. I am really looking forward to seeing it mature.

Very pretty! Keep us posted on how it grows.

'Gypsy Blood'??? Yet another awesome Heuff Lynn has that I've never even heard of. I'm pretty sure she has a secret pipeline that she's keeping to herself. I sure would.

I see we have no DB entry for 'Red Charm' but it is in semp-liste.de. I guess there's nothing we can do about it.

On my way Tim. Here you go.
Job's Beard (Sempervivum heuffelii 'Red Charm')

I have one of these thingys. It is called Angel Wings and I got is as a freebie from Young's.

Where do I enter it in the database? I don't find it anywhere under semps.

MelissaHopper said:I have one of these thingys. It is called Angel Wings and I got is as a freebie from Young's.

Where do I enter it in the database? I don't find it anywhere under semps.

Melissa, it's in the separate Jovibarba database, confusing as heuffelii is Sempervivum now, but the databases started as separate Semp and Jovi databases.
Here's the record, and it's a real beauty:
Job's Beard (Sempervivum heuffelii 'Angel Wings')

Was out much of the day, but when I got back I started into repotting Mountain Crest plants, they dry out too fast in those teeny-tiny pots, and since the rosettes and leaves are much bigger than the pots, can't see if they're dry or not.

left photo: heuff 'Chocolate Sundae' taken out of 2" pot, coir cube stays intact.
right photo: spend several minutes teasing off the coir and dead basal leaves. The coir cube goes right up to the underside of leaves, I worked at it to be able to have the top of the root caudex free of any moisture retaining medium, as shown, to allow space for layer of stone grit mulch.


Did this for several others:
Left: Bros and Jacupica in top row, Chocolate Sunday below.
right: Same 3 heuffs, but Rocknoll Rosette at top. Look at the size of the tiny 2" pot compared to Rocknoll Rosette size, I think their pot size is too small.

Thank you Mark.

They will be so much happier in the bigger pots.

So, we had a spring that was winter, a week and a half of spring without night freezing, then suddenly today like August and 91F today. I was going to split some Epimedium today, but it's too hot, instead I decided to finish repotting the tiny-pot Mountain Crest semps and heuffs into reasonable size pots.

It's not so much that MCG plants are small, they're not small, they are well rooted and good-sized healthy plants, but they're in such micro-pots, one must move them into a better pot size soon after plant delivery. Spent lots of time attempting to remove the coir block tight up against the rosettes, it's PITA but it was done, and here are the results for repotting the remaining heuffs, the original 2" pots are beside the repotted plants to show the relative size of pot to plant-size. The long and short of it is, these plants look beautiful now that repotted. If anyone wants to know the cultivars shown, I can make a Landscape-tagged photo.


I bought two heuffelii 'Minutum' for a MCG discounted price, I should have bought 10 of them, such a fantastic small, tight, symmetrical rosette, maybe I'll buy 10 more.

Very nice Mark. 'Minutum' is such a wonderful heuffelii.

I agree about the MCG peat/coir root balls. But the plants are reliably healthy and vigorous enough that some root damage doesn't slow them down. You always know what you're getting cuz their process is well executed even if it's a bit inconvenient for us. Watch out for 'Minutum', it has been a monster grower for me.

I wonder what is eating heuff 'Torrid Zone', one rosette is getting left tips eaten off, as well as surface "scoop-shaped" nibbling. A few of the same type marks seen on several rosettes in this same planter.

The only thing I've seen eating mine a slugs - and some are huge. After rain or watering go out at night with a flashlight Or beer in a lid draws them like flies!

Place some pet/child safe slug bait in the container. The slugs could be hiding in the gravel, or under the container.