I've got my plants outside & I'm monitoring them for general health & happiness. The situation that I usually deal with is too much sun. I've got them in fairly dappled shade with only a couple of hours of direct afternoon sun. I was lucky enough to find a wonderful 6' tall pyramidal plant stand on CL (cheap) that offers some dappled shade vs. all day sun to the plants on the lower 2 levels.

My p. afra, various jades & pinwheel aeoniums have all put on teeny leaves at the tip of each branch with a lovely pinkish tint on the margins.

I'm trying to balance the amount of water I give them by gauging the health of the leaves. So far so good, I think, because we had a cold snap & I brought the p.afra inside, it promptly began dropping leaves. When brought outside again, leaves stopped falling.

It's my guess that it was because the level of light was higher outside than inside, since the only difference was that & the fact that it was about 10-15 degrees cooler outside than in.

Anyhow, I want this pinkish hue to happen, right?

Last summer, I realize now that too much sun had many of my plants 'shut down' and I want to mitigate that.

I'm noticing there's a difference between keeping them alive vs. getting them to thrive & put on new growth all through warmish weather.