I just picked up an Astrophytum the other day, which was exciting.

The only other interesting things that I saw were:

• Cheiridopsis denticulata (leaves 5"+ long)

• Euphorbia milii (flowering)

• Haworthia attenuata var radula (lots)

• Adenum obesum (fat and a little expensive)

Nice looking Haws. The top one I don't think is a cymbiformis though. I could be completely wrong but I just haven't seen one with leaves like that before.

I recently picked up an Alonopsis (haven't checked on the species yet) and a variegated Kalanchoe fedtschenkoi. The places here don't even have much this time of year even though it was 80 today. They seem to keep a bit of stock but not much variety this time of year. There were endless seas of Echeveria runyonii and grafted Euphorbia lactea, but that's about it.

Kevin- Oh right! Yes I saw that thread, so lucky! I've never seen cheridopsis sold anywhere near me.

Nicholas- I think I would have gave in and bought a lactea crest if I saw any. I just don't because they put them in these cute pots and charge a lot for the whole thing. They probably have to do that since it's so top heavy anyways.

I saw sea upon sea of..really really large sized echeveria something and haworthia limifolia/striata or something. But they were SO plasticky looking, quite amazing really to think they're living plants:

I've been seeing the gigantic potted succulents at Costco lately. Getting more and more tempting every grocery trip I make.

The crested ones were nice but as you said, they're overpriced because of the pots. That and I don't want to deal with the glued in rocks. Does Costco have a good selection? There's one that's kind of far from here so I've never been.

My new haworthia is kinda small now so I'll just have to wait for it to grow more before I can really ID it!

The ones at Costco were just a pack of three in decorated gray pots for 17.99 or something. And usually was a large clump of panda plant (kalanchoe tomentosa), large haworthia er.. Looks like limifolia but could be something else, and a large fleshy echeveria like the ones above in the last pic. Sometimes the bundling was different, I was at a different Costco and it was the echeveria with undulating edges. Nothing really unusual, but the sizes were nice. Pots were a pain. Whole foods sold them individually for almost the same price...must just be some new whole sale vendor.

Could be a cross with cymbiformis....
Cuspidata

I like the extra chubbed leaf as well.

Nice, your retusa is throwing out a spike!

I'm supposed to get a bunch of Tylecodons in March - does that count? Of course, that'll be when they're coming to the end of their growth cycle....

Jeff, how can you receive anything living during March when you live on a glacier in the middle of nowhere!!! Even with hot packs!!! LOL I think I need another drink... maybe a double!

Howard, they'll be mailed from Washington to Arizona, thus avoiding the glacier and the wooly mammoth.

Oh it does look more like a cuspidata (minus pointy edges). I'm not sure why I thought cymbiformis. Must be my inaccurate image search. The retusa will be my first haworthia bloom : D

Ooo tylecodons, definitely counts. Did you get them from OOA or mesa garden? i have a limited knowledge of good online sources...Nice of them to mail them through a warm pass of sorts.

It's a private seller who's got an extensive (and too many, I guess) collection of just about every one, it seems. He's got lots of extras which I'll be able to get at a decent cost. I've bought plants from Mesa (was disappointed in the size of them, frankly, so I guess I'll only buy seeds from them from now on). I've never purchased from OOA.

Jeff I trust pictures will be forthcoming despite wooly mammoths or cave dwellers.....

Not as exciting as tylecodons (or zombie mammoths) but some pics of Costco succulent 3-pack

kinda late for haworthia flowers huh? Or is spring the correct time?

My Haworthia are enjoying spring as well, three sending up inflorescences and one with a plethora of flowers ongoing.

Good work!

niceee! any chance you'll be doing some experimentation with those? are any of those purchases from stc?

STC order possibly in early April...

-dramatic internal mental struggle-

i can't, they would be wasted on me (but also I'll be preparing for a big move this summer/fall and will probably damage a bunch of plants in the process)

But because I love sharing pics...:

h. magnifica var atrofusca love the color and texture

h.tessellata 'TK-E' pattern...is crazy awesome. reverse xray'd version of the normal tessellata.

love all the maughaniis though can't say I can tell them apart.

Three are STC plants, although all quite different. Hopefully I can successfully pollinate them.

Maybe I should get practicing! Haha.

They are easy to move, just pack them nicely in a small box. =)

Kevin, which STC's are flowering for you? It must be those lights!!!

And as Kevin stated, they are small and travel easily... This is TK-E as it looks today in my greenhouse.

This is from August 2015 when I received the plant. It may color up again with more sunlight this summer.

thanks! haworthias should be easy to pack..kinda worried about taller 'stem-y' things like crassulas..cotyledons. Starting to hoard boxes..

While I don't know where you are or will be going, for some larger plants, I believe it is easier to bare root them and pack with newspaper. For the few days they would be bare rooted, they should re-establish easily and quickly.

If you have room to pack them, ask your local greenhouse for some of those molded plastic trays that succulents get shipped/displayed in ( the ones with holes patching the pot sizes). I have a bunch and it makes moving plants around so much easier, since they can't fall over! You could put them in a largish box..

howard- gorgeous pink on that tessellata..

I was thinking of bare rooting some, that's how I brought some of them when I flew back from another state. That worked surprisingly well magazine/newspaper + shoebox (but also cause I didn't care about throwing away the soil they came in)

I was researching what people do online, and found a page from highland succulents about how they don't bare root theirs so the plants don't have to suffer from shock/etc. So I started to look into plant sleeves...

breton- i didn't think about that! I used one for a drive once, but yeah they would work really well inside a box...hmmmmm.

Here are the three STC plants that should be flowering shortly for me:

Haworthia 'Kegani x Korizato'

Haworthia 'Norikom'

Haworthia 'Rioja'

Great job. I have all three and no flower spikes on any of them.

Howard

Are you fertilizing them?

Yes, Rina all the time. Mine are in the greenhouse so winter low light. Things should start to change now that spring has sprung!!!

Oh man! great photos. : o that purple...