Echeveria runyonii 'Topsy Turvy' - looks pretty good. Sometimes plants heal themselves, your TT is a survivor. They have pretty flowers too.

If I may suggest - eventually, get all of the old soil off the root ball; it looks like there is some left. It is more likely peat that became hydrophobic; it hardens around the roots, doesn't let water and any air to penetrate. If any left, may not be much since you have new roots.

Thanks for the advice! I will do that :)

I think that cultivar might actually be called 'blue straws' (or similar). See how the leaves curl downward so much that many form tubes? I think that's the difference between it and the less-extreme 'topsy-turvy.' I've seen the name often recently. I don't know whether it's a legitimate cultivar name, or just someone renaming the same cultivar.

In any case. I'm glad it survived. Don't blame yourself for the rot. If it took just one watering to do that, it was already going on before you bought it, but just wasn't visible yet.

Hmm I've never heard of 'blue straws' but I think the label that did come with the plant stated Echeveria runyonii. Either way I'm glad it survived

Never heard of blue straws either, did lots of searching with no results. But, anything is possible, ppl do come up with all kinds of names. Or maybe a hybrid of TT with something else? I read that E.r. cv. 'Topsy Turvy' is a mutation originated in cultivation, so far I didn't find any info about cross-breading it.

In very first photo, the new leaves look bit different than older ones - IMO that is because of different growing conditions or rather health of plant in this case, as OP described.

Topsy Turvy, just as any plant, could look little different growing under different conditions. I have few, and they are all from original plant I bought about 4yrs ago. The leaves are curled up some more when it is drier for longer time.

One is blooming right now:

I might not have the name exactly right, but it's something similar to "blue straws." In some places (forums I've visited maybe) the names are written with a slash as though they're synonyms. There are several recently emerged cultivars that are obviously hybrids with, or variations of E. runyonii 'Topsy Turvy.' 'Cubic Frost' and 'Irish Mint' are two more. I swear I don't make these things up. ;-)

Found it. The name I was thinking of is 'Silver Spoons' not "blue straws." There is also a 'Lilac Spoons' that also looks related.

As I said, I don't know if that's what you have or even if it's a legitimate cultivar. It might be a synonym.

Thanks kwie; that is interesting info.

Found this on plantlust:

Echeveria runyonii 'Topsy Turvy': Also known as:

• Echeveria 'Silver Spoons'
• Silver Spoons Echeveria
• Mexican Hen and Chicks

Looking for 'Lilac Spoons' - couldn't find much info; found E. atropurpureum 'Lilac Spoons'. It looks very different.

So to confuse me even more, there is E. 'Misty lilac' supposedly new plant 2016 from Altman Plants; compared to 'Cubic frost' - I couldn't find any info except a photo t by D. Balwin: -see here-

Amazing how many types of succulents there are.

I just got a misty lilac last week! The leaf shape isn't curved though. I'm thinking it could be that the plant wasn't receiving sufficient care.

"Lilac spoons" looks like an extreme version of the same (or similar) mutation to me. I suspect they're all inter species hybrids, even if they don't say so (except possibly E. runyonii which apparently spontaneously deforms or mutates). I like the variety, but names are confusing and unreliable.

I've been looking at Aloes a lot lately, and I think their nomenclature might be even more unreliable. Lots of hybrids with Gasteria and Haworthia are still just called Aloes. I think most Echeveria cultivars are at least Echeverias. ;-p

Beautiful!

Stush, it might be hard to answer since your plant isn't blooming this year, but is it just a trick of the light, or are your TT blooms light red on the outside and orange on the inside? They also look "normal" sized to me. My TT blooms are quite large with wide and open corollas, and they're very orange. In that photo, yours look more like my 'Blue Sky' blooms. Here are mine:

Topsy Turvey

'Blue Sky' blooms just for comparison:

I'm always curious about the biology of these things. Especially interesting since we were talking about variations on the Topsy Turvey theme.

That TT planter of yours is (was) so pretty. It must've been painful to cut it back.