Keeping them busy may keep them out of mischief.

I ventured out and didn't see any Triffids, so it was a good time to divide all the poor , crowded plants from the January 2012 seeding.

Here are the pots with the results, .

Great containers Janice, I love all the little accent pieces you've added.

Phew, relieved that you made it back indoors safe and sound, especially since we are getting into the heavy season for Triffid activity.
The seedlings just amazing me. They are little grown-up semps now. And to think we were there from their beginnings.

I grew a bunch of seeds about three years ago now that I bought online, and then when I went back to look the following year, they didn't have any more. This is the result of the first years seeding:



I save the seeds every year now, and I've sold some online. I figured I should test them to see if they were viable (they look just like dust - how can they possibly grow?) and I ended up with this:



They each had twins...

Those look great, BlueFox!!

Looks like you will have alot of Plants there!!

They look fab!

Way to go Jacki. And that first photo is lovely. That is quite a new crop you have going there.
I realized how prolific they are when I didn't dead head the blooms two years ago.
Lesson learned. What I might do this year is sprinkle the seed from each semp on it's own labeled area of a bed and see how that works.

So far out of my seedlings, very few, this is the only one that is looking interesting.
Baby photo 2/20/2013


Not grown up yet, but showing some promise. 9/2/2013

Wow Lynn how cool is that!! Will you be able to name it?? Even if you don't introduce it to market? Ms.Smith's special??
Its very pretty, looks a little like Michael's golden!

I don't even know who the parents are, not even one of them. And I didn't write down which bed and area of the bed it came from.
They were coming up everywhere. I will never leave seed heads in the beds over the winter.
I'll have to see how it does this winter and next year. Maybe Kevin can tell me how to do the marketing?

Very a pretty seedling Lynn! Sure would be fun to introduce your own semps!

I think Kevin has planted a seed. I find myself wondering what it would be like to create a new sempervivum. We'll see.

Lynn you certainly live in the right area - with all the other semp "creators" (Pacific Northwest!) haha

I just don't know if I can be dedicated enough at this time of my life.

And also there's the question "does it have enough unique and distinctive qualities to make it marketable?" If the answer is truly "yes" then that may drive your decision! Wanting to get that distinctive semp out there for many people to enjoy!

Sighhhh, think I'll go out and see if I can make one of my Jovi's fall in love with one of the semps.