Both look completely fine. Those are buds and they do take fooorrrreeeevvvveeeerrrrr to open. They have a strange smell, like 90% stank with 10% sweet honey. When the flowers are dead you will have to prune or else the plant will look messy.

Last year’s blooms opened in September. I do remember thinking they took a long time to finally open.

Very nice. Thank you. Full sun? Do you water them quite a bit like some do with other Jades?

I'm more at ease now, or just less puzzled. I suppose seeing this grow for a whole year will help. I might like it better in the spring. I've never had stanky flowers, although Hyacinths and Alyssum both smell like cat urine to me.

Very nice plants. Maybe I should get into Crassula.

It's a deep hole to get into. I'm at the shallow end.

I’m in the shallow end with Jeff :D. I have a few cool ones but have yet to find a capitella. I lost my ivory tower to mealies this past winter.

Soon it will be the stinky end! Good work on getting it to flower.

My experience is the same as Kara's. =)

Just saw this post and was wondering, are we sure about the ID, looks more like C tabularis to me.

Alain, it sure looks like it. I'd be interested in what other people think. Seems like there are a lot referred to as Red Pagodas out there that refer to a bunch of different types.

I used to grow it in full sun. Smells like urine when it blooms. Then it fell behind the plant bench and I found the remains this spring. Oh, well.

That nomenclature is indeed confusing, seems C capitella thyrsiflora is also called corymbulosa, not sure what tabularis is but it could just be a small size or dwarf thyrsiflora. Or just another name for the same plant? And they are also all named Red Pagoda, Pagoda, Pagoda Village and many other common names.

This is what I have as labelled thyrsiflora

and as tabularis

Alain, your tabularis has leaves closer together than mine, which could be conditions of course, and mine has offsets coming off of the stems (not just at the base of them), but very similar, and more similar than your thrysiflora.