This plant is a planting of several pups together and not how it grows naturally. S. pinguicula grows like a walking plant with stolons on stilts in a chain. The only way you can make a plant like this is to cut multiple pups and plant it in this fashion. Granted that the plants are now pupping as well, this creates a full specimen. You need to grow this species very hard for it to keep its compact shape. This plant can resemble an agave if grown indoors in less than favorable conditions and too much water.
Now you've just lost some credibility with me there - S. ping. does grow in groups (I've had one and have friends with mature plants of multiple heads).
You might avoid making general statements about stuff you don't know about or unsure of.
As we get information from the peanut gallery, let me say again that S. pinguicula makes pups on stolons like the strawberry plant and spider pant. They do not form clusters as a bromeliad does. Stilt roots and short to long stolons traverse across their terrain as this species expands and makes more plants.
Jeff I want to make a suggestion for the show. Select one plant with perhaps a young stolen, make sure it is perfect, not even a scratch on the leaf, make sure the apex look great, and select one with not a mark on the leaves. It must be perfect for a ribbon. It will depend on the judge. Mine had a scratch that look like it was deliberty put on the leaf, I lost to a red leaf plant that was dead the leaves were not properly grown, it had no roots, and it was held up by a large rock to cover up the brown stain on the bottom half, also no name. I just don't want you to be dissappointed. I know who your competition is going to be. I want you to win. One judge appologized to me. Both runners came and told me what happened. I refujse to show again, I know the difference and will not play that game, that is why I stopped playing bridge, I caught the cheating. It happens in all competition, so I just won't compete any more. This is just a hobby! Norma
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