Marie - Your COT collection is amazing! I bought a few tiny bundles of cuttings at my local nursery this fall, cream, pink and red. I really want a huge mix of colors, but they are hard to find around here. Sadly, mine aren't doing well. A lot of the stems are bending and soft. Only 5 out of the 20 I started with actually look healthy and feel strong. The rest of the stems continue to lose their leaves and soften up. I don't know what to do. I water sparingly, but I don't want them to be too dry. at the same time, some stalks look thirsty and some overwatered. I try to keep them in the sunniest window, but they seem determined to die. If I can figure out how to make mine healthy, I love to discuss the possibility of cuttings. Please help. This is what they looked like 12/7 This is from 12/31

And let's put our hands together for the next pic, please.. A very deformed flower from Mr. Ko's Ebay 65.. I have no idea what I may have done to contribute to this wacky flower but since several of my plants are forming flowers like this, I must presume that I have goofed somehow in the fertilizing process.. Unless my having to bring the plants indoors for a few days, while we rode out a tropical storm is responsible due to a change in light and reduced watering.. Since this is a first bloom, I can only hope that the next batch of blooms will be normal.

I asked it. It is not willing to share the prize with the Senecio. After the Peperomia I got a sullen silence, so I guess it has to yield to that ;-). In truth, Alain, I think the flower is very nice. Even more so when the whole plant is in bloom: the cutest little parasols all over it.

Echeverias in original post are all opened now, here are photos of blooms. They are quite similar - same shape - but different color and shape of inflo: Large frilly echie is about 10" diameter, and very tall/long and branching inflo. Blooms are red, comparing to more orangey of the other 2: