It is Fall wake up time for the Aeoniums..enjoying our cold rain as well. I have been putting some more chicken grit and pumice on my containers to add more drainage. Will wait for tomorrow after the rains, may have to move Aeonium hierrense to its own container and just group the other Aeoniums together.

I feel sad that I lost my huge Aeonium after it bloomed this summer. I was hoping the other chopped parts may try to make little rosettes, I guess it is more finicky than the others.






Aeonium hierrense needs its own container:


This batch of Aeonium Arboreum looks just so happy to be awake!


This Aeonium Arboreum used to have the yellow blooms, after the blooms faded away, just an empty stem, but it is now making new rosettes. So it answers my question a bit, whether this plant is monocarpic or not...so life goes on!

Looking so pretty Tarev!! Exciting...my dark purple ones have only done well the first summer I had them, each year they come inside and get too dry (because of dry air, even if I spray mist them, I just can't get as much as they'd get outdoors) and they begin to drop their leaves and when I return them outside they return, but not with the same gusto of that first year - I'm hoping they can surprise me with age haha! But yours look really good!

Thanks Greg, I think they do not really like being spray misted. It will be of no effect really, their stomates are closed during the day. They are really more of an outdoors plant, just like the semps in that sense. It is different though with rain, there is more wind/air interaction, they really like that cold feeling. I just try to use shallow containers if I can, it makes drainage faster. I am just thankful we will have several days of low 60's daytime, it will allow for some drying out time after these cold rains.

To be honest I was worried during this summer's dormant time, our dry and hot conditions went all the way to Halloween, seems Aeonium arboreum 'Zwartkop' is more deadish dry than just dormant. Such a relief when I took those photos today, they are alive! But I did add the extra pumice and chicken grit to some of them a day before the rains, and been adding some more today in between rain breaks.

I really need to move Aeonium hierrense..got to find the guts to disturb it, still in wake up mode, hopefully it will not mind the uprooting. I hope the Weather Channel overnight temps is correct, to them our overnights will be in the low 40's..the other site is already saying mid to high 30's. Cranky pots Fall weather! Love the rain! But just hate when it comes along too cold!

Wow that is cold Tarev! We are getting overnight temps in the mid to high 40's and daytime highs in 50's - it is funny when there is such a little difference between daytime and nighttime temps!

And there it is..we got a frost advisory for tomorrow...Aeoniums can take this..will just have to delay uprooting anything for awhile.

These are lovely! My friend is giving me a couple of cuttings and one bareroot plant ready to put in soil. I'm excited!

Hello Thea - haven't seen you on here before so When I first received mine they were just twigs, and they grew very easily that first year!! You'll like them I think! Reminds me that maybe I should cute mine back and act as if they are brand new cuttings to see what happens!

Hello Greg! Thanks! I came onto this forum about maybe 2 months ago. Everyone here is awesome and very helpful. Yes, I'm very excited about the cuttings from my friend. See you around!

Thea it looks like you don't have any microbadges yet. I've sent you some so you can get one.

This is good timing to plant/root the Aeoniums! They like cold weather. But if it is still not rooted and rain is coming, do shelter the container first. Just bring it out again when rain is gone.

Thea, Aeoniums are so much fun to grow! Can take our super hot and dry temps and our mild winters very well. Just make sure to make your media very well draining and grittier since it can stay outdoors and take the rain, but has to drain well. If you are planting it in containers, it does not really need a very deep container. It does go dormant during our hot summers. I always enjoy the color change of the rosettes as the seasons change as well. I always take photos every month, they look so different and very colorful. If you are lucky you might just get them to bloom

The bloom last March 2015..thankful this particular type is not monocarpic!


This huge Aeonium unfortunately turned monocarpic..so now just a nostalgic memory I really miss this one

Ohhh! That's so pretty! I can't wait to get them and pot them. I do have some fresh green Aneoniums cuttings that I took from my mother plant which I haven't root yet so that's something to do today @tarev- thanks for all the helpful advices and suggestions.

@hetty- what's a mircobadge?! LOL

@hetty- Nevermind, I just figured it out. Haha

Btw Thea, if your Aeonium gets too moist at soil level it will appear like this, if that happens, I would check the soil and add additional pumice, perlite or chiken grit to improve drainage and allow it to dry and callus before re-planting.

So on the photo, this Aeonium cutting got rather moist at soil level last Spring, thankfully it was getting warmer then, and the plant just callused itself, and went to its summer dormancy. The stem has to stay firm like shown on the photo, above that sunken part. During Fall, when the cutting is ready, either you see the rosettes starting to grow again and widen up or you see those roots coming out above the dried out sunken part. In other areas with more pleasant temps, they may have better growing conditions than ours so they can see more growth ahead, compared to our area which is just so hot and dry during late Spring to early Fall.


I have just added more pumice and chicken grit so it really looks gritty media on the photo. So it is important to keep the cutting dry as it attempts to make roots, but it can take the cool temps. I was glad it has already formed the roots when it started raining, at least the plant will be able to drink it up.

It is one of my curvy cuttings, since it was a rather overly etiolated one when I cut it off two years ago. I can actually still cut this down, but I rather like the curvy pose it made New rosetted can form anywhere up and down the stem, but usually below the cut off portion of your cutting.


This is a different cutting, just a close-up of the new little cutie pie rosettes waking up: the whole plant is shown on my Nov 9 posting.

Will you guys help me my succulent leaves are turning yellow and then shriveling up

Hello Succulent, looks like the media is too wet and the plant is wet, is that from rain or did you water the leaves?.
Does your container have drainage holes?
What type of soil are you using, is that regular potting soil like Miracle Gro or cacti/succulent mix?
Where are you growing this plant, like is it indoors, or outdoors? If growing outdoors, what is your temperature daytime and night time?
What orientation of light is it getting, north, south, west or east?
Also, are these newly planted with existing roots, or already old plants, or are these just new cuttings?

I do not know where you are located, if you can provide at least the region or city where you are. Different locales have different microclimates.

If you can answer each of them, we can better understand why your plant looks like that right now.

Succulent!! I agree with Tarev the cuttings are too wet, maybe you watered right before taking the photo though? I also think maybe needs brighter light, not direct sunlight but brighter shade - again like Tarev said depends on your growing conditions. I've had plants that look like that when they're cold along with wet.
Anyway, welcome and see you on the threads!

Can you make new plants from the leaves of a succulent inside under LED lights

Hello Sharon - yes you can, especially if it is warm and bright! My lights tend to heat the room up so the temps are warm enough to stimulate growth, they need really bright light to get them to grow, and it is much slower than outside in the sunshine!

I keep my succulents in my sunroom. We do not get very little sun in my state most of the winter. When I take my plants outside for the summer I always find leaves growing babies that have dropped during the winter. I think some plants will root even if cool with very little light.

Yup they will root just depends how cool and if kept dry enough while cool. But not as fast when temps are in the more comfy warm 70's to 80's.

I remember being in Manila, bought some jade plants, poor plants so soaked in rain, and that local vendor uses the same media for all the plants they sell succulent or tropicals, so some leaves have droppped. I set them aside, thinking it will be awhile before it roots, having been too wet and humid. Set it aside in a dry spot, to my surprise, the next day, wow, a lot of roots already. I realized our warm temps there is more sustained, always in the 75 to 80 range and goes higher. Tickles the cuttings to root so fast.