I agree "beautiful plant). I'd be so scared that I'd kill it, so I probably would. Bit like when we first start propagating lol.

Great plant....wish mine looked half as nice! Never been successful with these.

Howard

I still have Lipstick' you sent me few years ago...It's not as pristine looking as one in photo, but I thought you are expert on those :)

aloebot

It looks great! How do you keep it so clean if grown outdoors?

Rina, like anything else, some Echies are easier than others even for me! Lol

Here it is - some water marks, older damage on lowest laves...but has grown quite well otherwise. Thank you again :)

Rina, it has been growing on N-East side of house that gets morning sun. It was under Pregnant Onion cover for about a year and also weed/grass shading. I put it out into a more open position so it would start coloring up a couple months ago when it started to warm up. It is starting to get some almost black colors on some of the leaves now!

Helen, I did almost kill it when I bought it about 2 years ago. It had been living under shade cloth. I put it originally in a N-West position and the afternoon sun was too bright for the un-acclimated plant. I mushed out few leaves but the center was still intact. I moved it to the other side of my house in a protected position. Whew, it was more expensive than I usually pay for a not-so-rare plant. Lesson learned. ACCLIMATE.

aloebot

Must be well protected, or you are lucky and do not have critters around :) There are squirrels here - not too much problem so far, but chipmunks are much worse. They are so cute, but really like to dig and bite many leaves. I find plants dug out, in pots or in ground. Last year, I scared one digging in a pot of Lithops - and it run away with one of them! Still not sure what they are looking for...

agavoides is one of the happiest in the ground here. Some of them seem to need to be in pots, but agavoides handles the ground year round without a problem, even in a rainy year.

Rina, I have Cottontails. So far I haven't noticed what they might be eating. I'm afraid it is probably new flushes on cycads. A few years ago I had ground squirrels. They were a nuisance. The unpotting activity is usually to plant acorns in the soft soil of the pots. Mine were sort of substance experimenters. They ate almost every Turbinicarpus I had. I don't know if the alkaloids poisoned them or if they started hallucinating and ran away. I have black ants and now fire ants to keep out of plants and pots. There is a gopher super highway running through the neighborhood. I couldn't eliminate them if I wanted to. They eat the roots of bamboo and some succulents in the ground. I can't keep some Mesembs out in the open because birds think they are desert. All that said, my Echeverias seem immune to all of these critters.

It's beautiful and good growing))

Jeff, geez, Ha . He looks high or something. Lol. Seriously though , I hate them and thank god they don't bother mine. I just throw all natural stuff down on my yard and they don't even like to visit mine anymore. Wow. I always thought they just liked to hide nuts in them. That's nuts Jeff! I'd hate it I am hanging basket crazy with plants in my yard

Mike

We've heard that squirrels and rabbits don't like human hair. My wife cuts my hair outside when it's warm enough and we've collected my hair, but we're not sure if it really works or not. That might be better for rabbits. I wonder if there's a 'substance' in the Pansies that they especially like, because they really dig them.

GORGEOUS!!!