kiwi is , not really difficult, but hard to figure sometimes.

All of these cuttings came from the same plant but at different times over a couple of months. The largest, brightest colored is also the oldest. They are all getting the same amounts of light, water, fertilizer, yet they run the full range of color.

Mine are usually best colored in late winter and spring. Very shortly I'll start keeping them indoors 24/7 in bright but not direct sun. When it cools off-probably in Oct.-I'll put them in full sun again. Tentatively I've come to believe that hot nights affect them, and all other aeoniums, adversely. Throw in high humidity and they really suffer.

My advice is put them someplace out of the way for summer then love them in the cool.

Dave

May I ask why are you going to keep them inside? I think I asked about your temps before...

I keep mine outdoors and they have best color in Summer. I usually have them in location that receives full sun from sunrise until about 1pm. Here is a cutting in that location, last July:

Angela

Why do you bring plants indoors in the evenings? My plants stay outdoors day & night until it gets too cold in fall.

Both of you are in warmer zone but in summer, we get some humid days and temps around 80*F.

Here are mine today. They have been outside except a few times when I took them in this winter if they seemed to be getting too wet. Angela, yours look kind of rangy like mine. Mine got a lot of sun for a couple months early spring and have recently been moved to about 6 hours sun, dappled later in the day. Any chance of giving yours more sun than 6 hours? Not sure of color change in the summer though.

Maybe Rina, Dave or someone else can ring in on this, but I wonder if the pot is a little too large for the plant. I'm sure you have drainage in the pot, but the soil looks a little wet: however, if it has improved since you got it, you are probably not over watering. Is the sun it's getting through that screen (probably not, but I thought I'd ask)? Has it been getting the 6 hours of sun all winter?

Rina, 80 sounds about perfect. The last few years here in Reno we've had extended periods of 100 degree weather, everything suffers but aeoniums, aloes, some others are devastated. Last year I kept them inside and things were much better. And of course the intensity of the sunlight in July/Aug. means most things spend half the day in the shade.

Raining right now. temps in the 40's, down 40 degrees from yesterday. How are things up there?

It has been miserable for a while...raining for days and still quite cool, just around 40*F. Prediction for wet snow Sunday night...and rest of the week highs only in low 40's. We do not get to 100*F in summer...

Just to show that it's not the time of the year that's the problem, here is a plant in late spring in full sun at friend's home

and though not the best photo, here's another of his plants in full, hot September sun (over 100F)

Thank you everyone! Going to try my best to answer everyone's questions!

I mostly keep this plant inside in a bright window along with a few others. The more delicate ones are brought out during the day and brought back in at night because we live in the woods and I am afraid that anything delicate might get messed with at night!

I wondered if the pot pot might be too big also. It seems to be growing fine though so maybe not? I literally had just watered it when I took that picture. The soil is always dry before I water again, and no the light it gets is outside light mostly morning through the earlier afternoon and then I take it back inside and let it sit in a sunny window for the rest of the day. I guess I could leave it out there for the whole day and it would get more than 6 hours. I just get nervous that it's too much since this isn't really it's season.

Thank you all all for sharing your pics! So beautiful! Now I'm going to take my little back out into the sun! :)