Oh dear! I have only the one plant, no babies. Will it sprout from a leaf if I send you one?

I don't know, but don't think so. I didn't have that one long enough to get into propagation.

Thank you very much for the thought, but if I'm forgetting plants, I already have too many. When/if the time is right, I'm sure it'll come around again. I have such a long, terrible track record with sought plants. I'm so much better with found plants. And if you put a pic now'n'then, I'm good.

: )

Mine is a Spiked Clam Shell Kalanchoe. In the spring/summer/fall it's outside, I bring it in for the winter.

Sweet. : )

11/11/22:

purpleinopp said:First K. blossfeldiana inflorescences have been spotted on a plant still outside pretending to be a tree in a mini garden. I don't think you can see them in the pic, but I can tell in person.

Update, showing that they will be yellow/orange:


Other buds spotted around the yard. Whenever it's predicted below about 29°, it's time to cut all of these off, stick some in water, some in pots, & enjoy the blooms.
These will also be yellow.


Not sure which yet:


Red:

Some specimens in borrowed warehouse space (great SE window.)

K. fed. stems cut and put in water a couple months ago. Looks like they're going into bloom mode.


Flaming Katy (K. bloss) buds forming.



K. beauv. Manifests as weird vine in lower light (not all day sun.) I have to adjust it occasionally to keep it above the other foliage and out of the shadows. In the spring I'm going to chop that off @ soil level & use all of the leaves to start new babies for a hanging pot.

K. laciniata stem rooted in water in S windowsill. It keeps getting pinker.


Dramatic leaf color, buds about to pop.

Several kinds of Kalanchoes huddled near a SE window. So many blossfeldiana buds getting close to blooming.


K. rosei stem put in water a couple months ago is about ready to open some blooms.

Too-cold is coming so I harvested every big-enough Kalanchoe stem that has buds. A lot of them were stuck in these 2 pots. The tall ones are K. x houghtonii.


The bottom layer is shorter plants, mostly K. blossfeldiana. And a little Jade that was in a mini garden.


I ended up with over 5 gallons of leaves doing this. It took about an hour after I gathered the stems to cut most of the leaves off. They just get in the way of the coming blooms.

Is that K. Delagoensis?

houghtonii
Mother of Thousands (Kalanchoe 'Houghtonii')

More stems with buds, saved by being stuck in a pot with a big Aloe.

Major buds.

Faded blooms are better than none. Glad I saved these stems. The plants still outside are mushy and gray.

The same kind of stems cut the same day but put by a more sunny window have much more colorful flowers. This is about the most vibrant I've been able to get from this plant, K. houghtonii. These blooms need all day sun to get really dark.


Kalanchoe is probably my fav genus. None of the others I've had compare to blossfeldiana for bloom longevity, but I'm unable to provide more than a few hours of sun per day during the cold season. Those with a real GH would probably have even more floriferous plants. The show is starting! Beginning credits are rolling...



K. fed leaves are more than enough for visual enjoyment, but it's always fun when they are able to bloom too. I usually get a peach/salmon color from these, when they do.


K. rosei manages to produce cute little bluish purple balloons. The petals are not the best part, IMVHO. I'd love to see an established patch of this in a natural habitat. Mine are always so lax, and probably stretched.

Some pics of buds & blooms today. K. blossfeldiana, an established pot:


Cuttings stuck in a pot about 3 months ago:


marnieriana


katapifa / tarantula:

'Maroon Krinkle' has faded to plain green.


K. houghtonii, literally bumping up against a S window.

rosei blooms



lavender scallops (fedtschenkoi)


A couple of pinnata. I said I was going to cull this from the herd, but in a bottle of water, it's easier to hold-over for winter. The attempts to make some blooms are a surprise.



blossfeldiana

Buds are starting on 'Maroon Krinkle'

Tune in now, the blossfeldiana show is on: