Reduced intense light and (possibly) rain - both of these cause a stressed plant (which brings outs colours) to green up.

I find many of my plants change colors through the seasons - my aeonium and jades, for instance, get fabulous red coloration in the fall and winter but lose it in the summer. Also, when they get stressed (lots of sun, not enough water) they color up.

Thanks for replies. I'm out of town but I'll get some pics up when I return.

One thing is this neon breakers has these bright neon almost fluorescent yellows greens and blues when I received it but now they are a dull purplish dark green. Still pretty but not shockingly neon. Check google for pics

It's been pretty sunny here and between 70-80 degs so I'm not sure why. Hopefully my pics will help later.

first pic

this is a close up. When I purchased this it was bright neon yellowish in the middle. It looked almost glow in the dark during the day and had rich pinks, bright florescent blues, it just looked so bright.

Now it has a dull color especially in the older leaves. It lost its luster.

Could this be due to less sunlight or that it is going dormant during winter?

I do notice the new growth has the bright colors a bit, but not even near how bright it was when I bought it.

I got it at home depot and it seemed to be overwatered, but it was so bright and florescent glowing then. I wish I could get it to that shape.

I just water when dry once every couple weeks now that its getting 65-75degrees during the day. I'm in los angeles coastal. Also when I bought it from home depot it was in that really wet soil. I repotted it with a lot of pumice mixed with cactus mix about 2 months ago.

Here's an example of how it used to look in the URL (this I pulled off google images)

If anyone has any suggestions please help.

(QUESTION #2. How do I look up all my old posts? Is there a way to view all posts by a user like on other forums?)

Here is a link that might be useful: echeveria neon breakers from google images

This post was edited by yorkiemiki on Wed, Nov 27, 13 at 1:25

To find your old posts, you can use the Search function. You'll find it towards the bottom of the index page of each GW sub-forum. You have the option of searching that sub-forum or the entire site (but to search a single other sub-forum, you'll have to go to that sub-forum and do your search there.

Enter your user-name. (You can add other words, but I'm never certain if it's an AND search or an OR search -- maybe it used to be OR but now it's AND?) It will bring up threads you've started, threads you've posted on, and also threads where your user-name is merely mentioned by someone else.

I don't know if the search finds everything or not. I don't know the extent to which very old posts will show up in a search.

If this doesn't work for you, you can go to Google and use their Advanced Search. The last I knew, Advanced Search could only be accessed by first making a regular search; at the bottom of the page of results the "Advanced Search" option will appear. Click on the link to go to Advanced Search.

In Advanced Search, there are many options for entering terms, and you can also limit searches to a particular site or a section of that site.

Before you enter a GW url in Google Advanced Search, be aware that not all GW sub-forums begin with the same address. Some are forums.gardenweb.com and others are forums2.gardenweb.com. It's possible to use more of the url so that your search is limited to a particular GW forum: for example, forums.gardenweb.com/forums/cacti -- or should it be forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/cacti? I haven't tried to figure that out.

I don't know if Google Advanced Search will find every post you've made in that sub-forum or not. I've had successful searches that seemed to bring up everything I thought it should, as well as other searches that gave me very strange results.

Happy searching!

I use the GW search a lot, so can tell you it's an AND search. The inability to sort the results is maddening, antiquated, in conjunction with the inability to specify if you only want to search thread titles or also contents, and any kind of date range, so it's helpful if you can remember an important word that can separate the discussion you're looking for, if you post a lot.

"I don't know if the search finds everything or not. I don't know the extent to which very old posts will show up in a search. " As far as I can tell, once they 'drop off' of a forum, they won't show up searching the GW facility. As you said, magnifying the irony I might add, one must use an outside search for that. BUT the good news is that if you find it, it should still work. You can comment and pop it back to the top for continued yakking. Once a year I intend to NTP my NOID Callisia that's not C. repens until it can be given a name.

Yorkie, good luck with your pretty plant! How much light is it getting, like the amount of time the sun is shining directly on it? Knowing that, folks could tell you if their plants get more or less.

I bought one the other day, tagged as 'Neon Breaker' (seen below-click for larger view). I have never seen it for sale before. I have never seen an Echeveria with neon colors either...or it would've been a cart-jumper, for sure! I will be watching this one to see if it changes color through the year. To me, it looks very much like one I've had in the past named E. shaviana 'Pink Frills'.
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Here's what my 'Neon Breakers" looked like when I purchased it. The smaller one was a baby in the same pot. It is outside in full sun and really hasn't changed color much - except when it bloomed last summer.

More on searching....

Another possibility, if you know which sub-forum the thread appeared on, and have a general idea of when (though ideally that "when" would be the last date the thread was updated, rather than the date the thread was started) -- and are persistent -- and lucky -- is to try the Wayback Machine

When you get to the Wayback Machine, enter the GW sub-forum index page url, then choose the date you'd like to see. When you click on the thread you're interested in, it should come up. Unfortunately, it won't won't contain photos. But then you can look up that url outside the Wayback Machine, and you'll see the thread with all the photos which still exist.

For instance, here's the "Alphabets: Letter D" thread from a year and a half ago:
http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/cacti/msg0321130721026.html

Sometimes you'll click on a thread and the Wayback Machine hasn't archived it. However, it gives you the thread url, so (for a site which still exists, like GW) you can go right to that page on the Web! [For sites which no longer exist, you're out of luck. 8-( ]

So this looks do-able for many purposes -- with persistence and time.

Hey guys thanks for all the responses on looking up old posts very helpful!

Also I think that my plant used to look like crenda's when I first bought it.

Perhaps it is the amount of light its getting. I think it gets about 4 hours of afternoon light and indirect light through the day. it's on the west side of an apartment. I'm not sure though...

My neon breaker looks like this (The one in the middle thats spidering out). I moved it inside when it started cooling outside because it says to. but the outer leaves keep dying off and the flowers started dying too. honestly, I think all is well and its juat from the change in environment (same is happening with flowers falling off of a new thanksgiving cactus i bought due to environment change)...but I'm concerned because it's so pretty! I don't want it to die haha :)

So if anyone thinks it may be something else??? I'd love to know

Kelly

Flowers do not last forever :) - how long has it been blooming for?

Looks very nice, I didn't know the flower stalks get so long!

Change of environment could trigger off changes like that, there is often much less light perhaps less air circulation and so on. Have you changed watering? How warm is it where they are now?