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Jun 21, 2016 7:14 PM CST
Name: Bev
Salem OR (Zone 8a)
Container Gardener Foliage Fan Sempervivums Photo Contest Winner: 2014 Garden Ideas: Master Level
There's chance for either...I have lopped and then gotten a second flower stalk but more times than not, I've gotten offsets. So it's hopeful and since you lopped two, maybe one will have offsets? Do not know whether certain cultivars have a tendency towards one more than the other in outcome.

I was reading an article about Howard Wills who owns Fernwood Nursery in UK and according to artcle:
"He (Howard Wills) noted that to encourage even more offshoots you may remove the monocarpic flowers, which usually appear in the second or third year of a plant’s life." Now, Howard has had years and years of growing sempervivum experience...
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