I dont really get why youd want advice, but my take:

About 2 months ago, ive noticed my pulidonis got big, but also began loosing leaves.Some minor issue with mealy bugs.

Peeled all the old ones, exposed the trunk.

More than a month ago, the trunk got elongated, and behave weirdly(slower growth.

I decided to behead and repropagate.

Now, the head let out new roots, and is planted in coarse soil, the trunk dried out.....

I hope this somehow offers insight into propagation. Have done this with other plants, successfully . Only lost one due to severe mealybug issues and late cleaning....

Oh my Goodness! It finally worked. Well - part of what I wanted. But I can do the rest here.

I'm going to repot my plant, but noticed two central bits (centres) at the top leaves. I'm wondering if it's about to grow a flower stalk. Can anyone see what I mean? I'm not sure how to explain it.

If it's even a possibility that it's going to flower, I'll wait till later.

I was thinking of beheading it when I repot, but is that a good idea when I need to take it out it's dirt, wash the roots and repot into inorganic mix. Or would it be better to repot the whole plant, then when it's fully settled - behead? How can I know when it's settled enough to have the best chance of both ends surviving the trauma?

Thanks, Helen

Just realised it only accepted 3 of the photos.

Stefan, thanks for the quick response, quicker than my one finger typing on my phone lol.

I've done quite bit of propagating, including some beheading, but this one is a bit special :-)

I was too late with my ruffled one, bloomed yearly too.

Thats sad when we lose a special one :(

Did you notice how mine has the 2 "middles" right at the top leaves. Usually the middle is where the leaves grow from then go in different directions, but mine seems to have 2 and they are quite different looking.

Can anyone see the 2 "middle" growing patterns at the top? Also is winter a good time to behead AND repot?

Edit. 'Double crown' was the phrase I was looking for.

Could be either an offset or an inflorescence (bloom stalk). Mine send out both regularly :) Time will tell!

kd

I would love either :-D I keep checking it to see if it's doing anything - several times a day lol

Helen

Hope it grows well :) - pls. post follow up.

I wasn't lucky enough with a top part - but there were many offsets on the stem after beheading. Did you keep it? (the stem with roots...)

Rina I didn't behead it because I thought doing that might stop it flowering. Will definitely post any updates :-D

I plan to keep the stem and the top. If its about to flower I would think that might stop it flowering?

I would wait and behead after flowering...

I'm not entirely certain where the head went after beheading ... but take a gander at this thirsty, etiolated nightmare stem I discovered in my bathroom window (forgotten for months behind curtains I never open eeeek). My poor nodulosa!

It has both an inflorescence and an offset hahahah omigawd.... standard 4" pot there for scale (pls ignore dirty floor and random honeydew hehe)

Kd

Wow! So it grew leaves and even a flower stalk!! Is the stalk going to flower do you think?

And a pup!!! I would be so excited lol.

Kd. I wondered what the flowers would look like. I meant to look it up. Found a site that shows many photos on each Echeveria. Saved the link to the Echeveria nodulosa photos, then got sidetracked lol. There is so much out there.. So thanks for the pic :-)

I feel ya, it’s sooooo easy to get sidetracked when researching these amazing plants. You’re welcome!

Kd, I've just realised that I've been pulling off the leaves that are lower than the main rosette to propagate. I'll stop now and leave them on the bottom section when I behead. The bottom will have more chance of surviving AND I might get pups!! That would be soooooo exciting lol.

I've got 2 on a pot of mix that have roots and one on my leaf shelf that will hopefully also root. I'll be a Nana again!