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kwie2011 wrote:
Aaaah! I posted yesterday but it didn't "take." Bad signal strength here. Grrrr.

It WAS in its own pot, and it's only been in the community pot a couple weeks, so that isn't the issue. The Aeonium in there is very happy. Hope the Echeveria improves. It looks healthy enough, just plain, boring, and very un-red. :-( In fairness, the Crassula next to it came from the same place, same day, same pot and coir medium, same direct sun in the summer to get it to grow and turn red, and it is also just sitting there, being uninteresting, and it also got slightly tan edges instead of red this summer. Maybe they hate coir (pure coir, in pretty sure). By contrast, my C. tetragona has tripled or quadrupled in size in the same time, and all my other Echeveria have grown noticeably (all are single rosettes, but they're growing).