At the hotel, Neil? LOL!! You make this Korean look patient.

All in all, they seem to propagate nicely. My regular ghosts are much easier than these, I find, but I've only down two of these variegated ones. Both took but not anywhere near as robustly as regular ghosts. I'm hesitant to try more as nothing pains me like tearing off perfectly fine leaves but...I want more. LOL

Your rooting leaves are adorable, though.

First thing I do in the morning, when I'm not running around like a mad chicken, is crouch down next to my pot of leaves--I must have 50 just lying in that window planter on top of mix. I never get tired of that....the insatiable will to exist. Fascinating. One of my variegated Jade leaves got knocked off (by yours truly) so that's sitting in there, too. Nothing more gratifying than one is ready to get potted up on its own!

What are the stems in the middle? Looks like you have some grapto leaves, too?

Oh, and yes--Happy Labor Day to you, too! May you labor in the garden all day!! ;-)

Thank you, lol. i'll be right back i'm going to try and snap a pic to show you.

i have about 5 or 6 on the deck rail.

These are the ones i beheaded. They're already sprouting so I expect by december to have 20 or more of these at least. I have a few graptosedum growing in with them. They will be replacing one of my railing planters as my coprosma (mirror plant) is not doing well.

Why is it that Asian countries and especially Korea seem to have a better selection of succulents?? It seems that they create these beautiful, drop-dead gorgeous hybrids or cultivars or whatever you call them. And then, in the U.S. we don't have access to them!

I haven't seen anything here that even compares to what they have. What are our horticultursts, botanists doing??

Cute plants, really lovely the ones that blend seamlessly from green/orange/white!!

I second that ^^ Korea and Japan are masters when it comes to succulents and cacti hybridization, they make some of the most amazing crosses, really dedicated and well thought out.

Stumbled upon some of Steven Hammer's writings the other day and its an interesting take on the subject:

" Succulent plant breeding has been very much neglected. Traditional
reactions to the idea of trying to “improve” mesembs have several
aspects, not all of them rational. To some it seems arrogant or
unnatural to imagine that Nature's beauty can be improved; there is also
a general fear of humanly applied eugenics, which spills over into the
vegetable realm; and a fear that locality data will be lost through
multi-populational (or multi-specific) crossings.

As for arrogance: Nature is perfect in her realm, but that realm is
not under glass. So there is nothing hubristic about trying to breed a Cephalophyllum alstonii
which will not require a two-foot pot and months of winter sun to
flower richly—given that its scarlet flower is the thing we most cherish
about this plant. Such breeding is not only possible, it is almost
simple. It has been widely practiced in the other parts of the
horticultural world. The “improvement” of succulent plants does take
much time, but so does the breeding of roses. And as Goethe said: the
unnatural, that too is natural. "

Very well said Minty! I wish i understood all of it, lol.

Beautiful plants!!

I have a couple similar looking plants, one being Vera Higgins. I've been lucky with the leaves creating new plants for me. (Got them a few months ago and the new plants aren't actually plants yet, but I have hope!)

What's the proper way to behead? Just cut rosette off? Let heal and replant? Leave stem in potting medium? Will it create a new rosette?

Thank you!

Sunb75- Yes, that's what I did. You don't have to uproot the whole plant if you don't want to.

Thanks, Neil. I'm assuming the stem will start producing more rosettes.

Yes, they will most assuredly!