@jojosplants haha it sure is! I didn't grow it though...it was in one of the gardening decor package that I found at IKea @averil I see, at first I thought they weren't doing good that's why it's so easy to knock them off the stem, yes I have saved a lot of leaves they are all sitting in a propagation pot right now, I think few of them began to root! @suivezmoi thank you! Haha all I did was read this forum, watch some youtube videos (some of them would tell you it only takes 5 minutes, but that's a big fat lie haha, at least for me it took quite awhile getting everything done plus clean up..), and also google some succulent dish gardens for ideas! Good luck with your gnat problem...definitely don't overwater, the pots should be dry most of the time

Aztcqn, that's beautiful! Thank you for sharing that picture! I appreciate the first-hand care tips. I checked it today and it's in a very coarse, very dry grit-mix, so I'm probably not going to repot it for a while. It will definitely get and stay nice and dry here. When you water yours, do you fully wet it allowing water to drain out the bottom? water it from below? Spritz it? So looking forward to life with this cactus. Maryl, there are great posts on here about the gritty mix. Just do a search on Al's Gritty Mix. He's famous. :-) In case he reads this post, "Thanks, Al, for making my plants a lot happier!" I got my Repti-bark at Petsmart. I got the granite chips at Tractor Supply. I got the medium perlite at my local independent nursery. I got the clay bits from the auto-parts store, a product used to soak up oil in driveways. No, I bring everything in about mid-October. I have a small greenhouse, so some go in there; some go in a spare room on plant racks with artificial lights to supplement window light; and some go out in the barn with an LED plant-specturm light over them. I think I watered the C&S about twice all winter. Everything survived just fine.

Even "generic" succulents can be pretty;) 'Firestorm':) I wish I would have taken a picture earlier when this thing was blooming. It had white blooms everywhere:). The second pic is 'Opalina'. Third and fourth pic is just your plain old ice plant. When those things bloom I'm pretty sure even the most stuck up succulent person would be stopped in their tracks.

It's an echeveria. They need high light, occasional watering and little fertilizer. I water my succulents a bit once/week. Let them dry out before watering again. Most succulents which die are killed by too much water. Use a succulent soil mix when repotting them. Succulent soil mixes have some sand in them, for good drainage. You should use a pot with drainage holes to prevent too much water from saturating the soil. I like unglazed pots, because they also help (via evaporation) to rid the succulent of excess moisture.