I love it when they do that, but usually it follows a beheading. That plant wants make a new colony, and maybe it needs beheading, just to stave off the revolution. ;)

Don't remove any of those pups until next year when they will be old enough to defend themselves.

Stave off the revolution? You have be over the barrel there.

And those pups are mere pinpricks now, in a matter of speaking.

Maybe I should take the mature heads off and root them. Thanks, Brad, for the idea! Decapitation, it's keepin' me waitin'.

I'm so jealous! My pachyphytums have stems that keep growing longer and longer as the lower leaves fall off, but don't have any baby growth coming in. Although I did behead one, and that one has baby growth along its stem. It is discouraging to learn that it will take until next year until they can be on their own!

Here's the same plant after it's been placed next to the other Pachyphytum glauca (which itself had been misidentified as Pachyphytum tolomiensis (sp?). I'm hopeful that in the non-too-distant future one of the heads will flower.

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