Looks good Chad!! honey is doing well!

How exciting Chad.
Now the waiting to see if they will be none blooming offsets.

So what will happen? Is there a chance of offsets growing or just flowering from the growth I see? I guess I was hopeful I would get some offsets out of the procedure, lol..... I've never done it before so I guess it's live and learn.

There's chance for either...I have lopped and then gotten a second flower stalk but more times than not, I've gotten offsets. So it's hopeful and since you lopped two, maybe one will have offsets? Do not know whether certain cultivars have a tendency towards one more than the other in outcome.

I was reading an article about Howard Wills who owns Fernwood Nursery in UK and according to artcle:
"He (Howard Wills) noted that to encourage even more offshoots you may remove the monocarpic flowers, which usually appear in the second or third year of a plant’s life." Now, Howard has had years and years of growing sempervivum experience...

webesemps said:There's chance for either...I have lopped and then gotten a second flower stalk but more times than not, I've gotten offsets. So it's hopeful and since you lopped two, maybe one will have offsets? Do not know whether certain cultivars have a tendency towards one more than the other in outcome.

I was reading an article about Howard Wills who owns Fernwood Nursery in UK and according to artcle:
"He (Howard Wills) noted that to encourage even more offshoots you may remove the monocarpic flowers, which usually appear in the second or third year of a plant’s life." Now, Howard has years and years of growing sempervivum experience...

I don't know a whole lot about the different cultivars. I'm a newbie to these semps and just figuring things out with each passing day.

Glad to see so many new surgeons! It is kinda of a "hit and miss" thing as to whether they'll produce offsets, but it's worth a try since you'll lose the plant when it blooms anyway. I've had success and failure, but it's still fun to try.

Well said Chris.

I like that there are several people here and on FB who are trying this! Agree it is always a chance thing since some semps seem to offset easier than others, I have found that shading the plant after cutting it, helps (you know that little bit of babying!)

I bought Green Ice' this spring and they are all flowering. Top lopping number 2 this morning on these guys.

I've tried it:

'Pinkster Charm'


'Gizmo'


'Eldorado'

Wonderful! Keep us posted on their progress please!

Way to go Wolfgang.

So when it comes to the semps flowering or making offsets, when are you able to remove the offsets. I've read where people have mentioned that the hen will die after flowering so if there is success with the lopping, lol, I gave to More Honey, at what point can I seperate the chicks? Next summer, a few months, etc.?

You don't want to separate them until the offsets mature enough to start producing their own roots. Usually you will see the tiny white roots start up, then you can separate and plant.

I'm glad to read through this thread, my one-and-only 'Jewel Case' never threw any offsets and is now beginning to flower. So it will be getting the treatment.



This makes me wonder about vendors that sell single offsets like this. This came from just such a vendor (SS or MC) and it makes me think I'm entitled to a replacement. Oh well, I'll just hope that surgery will fix the problem.

I already treated a 'Carnival' that was flowering and I think I see some budding activity in there, but too soon to tell. I tried to take a close-up picture but failed miserably.

Tim it couldn't be MCG. They don't sell single offsets. They send orders like SMG does, with multiple offsets per order.

Hoorray Wolfgang and great pics!!
Lynn my experience with MCG is they send single rosettes, maybe it depends on how much they have of a cultivar, however Tim that's the price of doing business, always a risk I'd try surgery :/

In all the years I have purchased from MCG I have never received a single offset/rostte for a purchased cultivar.
I know SS does that, and they are potted in soil.

That's how all of mine have come from them, single potted in peat soil
Maybe mixing up with Young's?

Yes, I do think you are thinking of how you receive plants from SS.
Young's, SMG, MCG and Sempervivum Patch all send bare root offsets in multiplies. But better deal in my book.