Viewing post #978703 by tcstoehr

This, I have reason to believe, is 'Pacific Knight'. I got it this summer from Simply Succulents. I was trying to get 'Pacific Magic Night' but received this instead. My fault, not theirs. Alcohol may have been involved. It sat in a little pot for a while before I decided to give it some real estate in the semp garden. This picture was taken today. Pictures of this cultivar on ATP show a quite dark red. This guy, actually, shows less red than a month ago. And the green was a darker olive green and has lightened up a bit. But my 'Pacific Shadows' and 'Pacific Devils Food' are as red as can be, showing no signs of lightening up. I'm not sure why, but I thought red coloration tended to increase going into Fall and Winter. Is there any truth to that? Or does each cultivar do its own thing regarding the timing of its red hues?

Oddly enough there was a picture of this same variety in the book 'Hardy Succulents' showing it ablaze with orange and yellow. A month ago mine looked alot like its picture on the SS web site, which was olive green with strong red tips. https://www.simplysucculents.c...
There it states that it turns to deep burgundy in the Fall, but it seems to be headed the other way.
I begin to wonder if I have a cultivar mix-up. Either that or I'm just mixed-up in general.