Don't cut it back, unless you insist, it'll only slow the plant down, if it's in enough sun, it'll put out more compact, normal growth.
Cut the leaves off and you remove the energy source! It would likely survive tho.
The first pic is black beauty, it's a sport of illistris, I like it 10x better!
They look so good in person and are just as hardy as illistris is.
I haven't tryied ripples/ puckered up yet, they look pretty good at Brian's place but they've never excited me much...
It's turned into something that bugs me... Brian generates tons of new plants, does a great job selecting plants to grow out, culling is hard if you've never done it, but then the big wigs come up, walk thru the trail gardens and select the plant that THEY think will sell well. That's what determines what plants hit the market.
I've known for a long time that what appeals to me, is rarely what appeals to "the market"
Thus, the plant I drool over, end up composted...
Specifically the year that puckered up/ripples hit the market, I was expecting, hoping.... Really wanting to grow a different selection from the same cross... It was a MUCH better looking plant all round to my eyes, and it's growth habit is unlike any other colo I've seen!
He kept one hanging around for a few years but I couldn't even find it to see how it was doing on my last visit... I assume it's gone forever...
Such a shame that money is the driving force behind everything in our society!
Something's are worth more than just money, and sometimes a (the) dollar, costs us a lot more than face value... Such is life I suppose...
