same plant, cresting baby

3 new pups on very-hard-to-keep-nice G. 'Silver Star'

pup-crazy

Enjoy fall. I am. Well, except the thing of plants coming inside.

They are all so georgeous. Like every one of them.
How can you get Haworthias looking so 'plump' and beautifully colored? I have been asking this question, trying to follow suggestions, and mine still look totally different (they are not shriwelled, but much less of green, just touch of green in the centre, and leaves about half of 'plumpness' you have).
All of them must be happy wherever you keep them, pupping like crazy...Rina

Howard

Second plant is an unknown Graptosedum that went variegated. These are the flowers. I made a bunch of pups this summer, and am hoping some others might variegate. Half turned out crested.

Rina, still wanna see pictures of your Haws! What kind of nice collection are you hiding? :) It doesn't sound as though yours are probably in any different of a state than most people's are in summer. Sounds like they get a little sunshine, which would be the cause of the more red and less green. Where do you keep yours? With higher temps and more sun, I have a really tough time keeping the nice plumpness, so mine generally get to stay inside. In the greenhouse, even in shade, I somehow imagine they wouldn't look quite as good. I can't seem to have them turning red and still have them looking plump. It's an art form.

I'll take photo & post, but they are nothing to look at. I wish it was a collection - I have only small one inside and another outside, they look almost identical. I was trying to see if there will be any difference. I promise to post. Rina

Thanks for sharing your unique plants.

Mike

here are my sad Haworthias...
the small one was mostly outside, getting morning sun until abt. 11:00am. The larger one was inside, by south window. Both watered same, outside one would get rained on, but not way too much since it was under eaves.

The color of leaves on larger one is reddish-brown, just a little green in centre.

Rina

OK, Rina, I really don't see anything wrong with the health of your Haws. I think it might be making you disheartened to see other Haws that just naturally get more plump than your two forms, and maybe that has added to your concern? And about them turning red easily, I've found the smaller pups will be a lot more likely to turn red with less light than will usually cause that effect, so I shade the babies more. The thing of smaller pups turning red more easily is kind of evident in my second-to-last pic with H. cooperi var. cooperi; the smaller pups on that plant turn red with, really, little sunlight.

I'm pretty sure I have that first Haw (in the first picture, with the two of them), and I think it might be a H. cymbiformis form, but I don't know which. I have several little pups of it, about that very same size, and they don't look any different or more plump than yours there. That form just doesn't have extremely plump leaves in the first place, or not as plump as some other Haws or like you might be expecting. The leaves could even be described as slightly flat-looking. The outer leaves on mine don't hesitate to dry and shrivel up if the soil has dried, and because they're so little, I personally try to be mindful of when the soil has dried out.

Second one looks like a H. retusa form? Could maybe go with a tad bit more water, I'd guess, but I think that looks like a pretty normal Haw during summer. Have you had it long? Did it look better before summer hit? The most similar Haw I have turns red with not much sun. It has been red while sitting in mostly shade for most of the summer. I've stuck it in a community pot on the deck, sheltered under the overhang near to the house. It's situated in the upper right hand corner in the picture below. There's a larger cluster and a single smaller pup of it that snapped off. The outer leaves will shrivel if they're dry for a while, and I can see in the larger clump in this photo one outer leaf that is pretty shriveled in that shot. Probably because I missed a watering.

I have a bunch of the largest cluster of green Haws on the left side in that pot, and they're fairly light-sensitive too. The smaller pups in there you can certainly see turn red in nothing flat. I have a bunch of that plant, plenty for sharing someday.

The retusa form before summer and before it was stuck in the community pot--pretty and green:

It's a little less plump than it was before summer. Summer has stressed it a bit, though I didn't lessen my watering.

I was so blessed to find 'Silver Star' in the first place. Really hard plant, I've found, to keep pest-free and looking nice. Something got at it a few months ago, and I was irked, but it has grown out of the mess it was then.

Howard,

I really look forward to the flowers!

They naturally aren't as plumpy as some other Haw forms, and I hope that soothes your nerves a little bit..?

In your first photo, the littler one on the right in that pot maybe doesn't look quite as healthy or stable as the one on the left, but it is quite little and the little ones I've found will sometimes struggle through the summer. By the shape and position of the leaves it looks to me that the one on the right is seemingly a different Haw than on the left. I'm not sure if the leaf shape might vary or if the leaves don't come to quite as much of a point. I personally might guess it's a different Haw.

Thank you for taking time to explain...I thought that all of them are supposed to be as plump as yours, even if I can tell they are not the same.
I can see now - maybe it was little more sun and less water than it should have been. I only got them sometimes in spring, and yes, they were more green & little more plump.
I am pretty sure you are correct with the second photo - the little guy looks just like yours.
Will see how much they change with the change of weather.

Rina