Kevin- (been meaning to welcome you back! hope you and wifey had great vacay and plants sound like they're doing great.) Timers are such a necessity, I'm blaming some of my recent stressed out plant problems on having my LED growlights on for too long. What bernard said about watching the plants not responding to watering is a good idea..for example I had a haworthia that was pupping a lot before summer and so I kept watering it. But it rotted in the summer. Then I found out it was summer dormant. : ] lesson learned.

Yep still water those guys;). Not as much as you would in the summer, but just enough. Watering once a month may be enough in the cooler temps. That's something your going to have to feel out yourself. Some of my Echeveria and Pachys look better in the winter. My Echeveria 'Cante' always looks better in the winter. The summer is hot and I don't water enough so they shut down a little. I have some Echeveria and Pachys that are starting to bloom now. We haven't had much rain yet. So a few days ago I had to water a bunch of plants;). This doesn't count some of my in ground stuff;).

Oh, I thought you were talking about a thick cutting that snapped from the tree that you were trying to propagate. Never mind but you can still have the venti late. ;o) Controlling where a leaf grows out of is something we humans are still not good at. Probably best to form a callus there and prevent issues from getting access to the inside of the plant. Then it becomes a waiting game.... to see if it will develop leaves when and where.

I've been mail ordering my JM's for alot of reasons Availiblity being the biggest Oftentime the mail order options is 2G-3G. 7G is depending if the retailer is willing to ship it (it get's a bit risky with a 7g) pot and overall branching.... Finding larger sizes at the local yards can be nil-none and a decent nursery that may have it is 4 hrs away. Add in tolls, gas and the not fun part of a enclosed trailer driving adventure. So unless I really want that speciemen size plant, I'm mail ordering it Just trying to grasp what happened but on my Autum moon, it arrived semi dormant from shipping/transit. I received it with small signs of bud break and within 2 weeksn after planting it leafed out minituarely and then fizzled off to death. All other maples from mail order have been received with leaves - which is great, cause I can't blame anyone besides myself if the plant fizzles out. So whaddya say folks. Did Autum Moon fizzle out due to it being semi dormant:dormant : transit and all that entailment. It was just the beginning of spring but I can't say during transit, what temps it was subjected to. I did monitor the tracking and if I recall......and this is vaugely, based on tracking updates, it was on the subject to maybe 70+ degree temps for a day or two.