r/haworthia

Had to show off the crazy long flowers in the second one. These have all lived in my backyard in San Marcos, CA for the last 6+ years.

I’ve always had a soft spot for plants that have fallen out of their pots at the garden center that no one else would want. This was one of them. I rescued this colony months ago and boy has it grown!! I took several individual plants off of this when I got it and the way it’s filled in is amazing.

So do I just let it keep being the big beast it is??

Hi everyone! Wanted to share this seedling I've been growing - MS037, a cross between Ukukhanya and Shironoshaka.

It’s currently 4 cm and fully rooted. I really like how the window clarity and leaf pattern are starting to develop - the genetic combination is showing some great traits already.

How do you think the window patterns will evolve as it matures? Would love to hear your thoughts on this cross!

Hi, it’s me again! 🫶🏻 I shared my little greenhouse earlier, and now I wanted to show you one of my little incubators for my baby Hoya girls!
Tiny pots, grow lights, and little leaves to watch—I could spend hours checking on them. 😂 Every bit of new growth feels like a reason to celebrate!
Does anyone else have a little Hoya nursery? I’d love to see your setups! 🌿

Falling temperatures, humid morning air - Haws finally starting to turn green again after a long and hot summer.

pictured: H. cooperi var. truncata

It's quickly turning summer here. Look at the difference in colour! Splendens and Picta shown here.

I kept it inside during the rainy winter and gradually moved it outside for the drier summer.

This little guy is sooo happy. 😊

Pic#1 H. Picta hybrid #2 H. Springboks hybrid #3 H. Comptonania hybrid looking forward to these guys developing.

I got these 2 as party favors some years ago, each was 1 tiny plant in a tiny 1 inch pot. As the title says I'm quite sure they are Haworthia attenuata 'Concolor' & Alworthia 'Black Gem'(Haworthia/Aloe hybrid). Does everyone agree?

Next, I've looked all over for info about when to repot Black Gem and all signs point towards waiting until the pups fill out the pot and cover the entire soil surface. Most info says wait until the pups are growing out of the entire surface as opposed to mine that is covering the surface due the pups leaning out over the last inch of soil surface. Does anyone let theirs fill the entire soil surface before repotting, or do you just repot when you feel like it, Or do most people prefer to split pups and grow new plants with them?

How do you treat either if they get to filling their pots like these? Any information and discussion about their id, repotting, soil ingredients, or anything at all!

Edit: The Black Gem in Pic 2 started out as a single mother, as it got bigger it had large bottom leaves that spanned the width of the pot and then some, several months ago as the pups crowded it more and more, it lost its original lower leaves and started blending into the crowd. Also there's no roots visible out of the drainage hole, is that because its not overcrowded or is it possibly the hight of its pot.

I love his coloring!

I feel so lucky!

I have had this plant for almost a year now. It arrived pretty sad, bare rooted, with just about no roots on it. I tried rooting it in soil for probably about a year, to which it responded poorly. It would plump up a tiny bit but then the roots would die off and it would get sadder. Really puzzling to me because I have a slew of other haws which do not rot in the same conditions. I did use different soil, but I used a blend of akadama and pumice. Chunkier, airier, and better than the other half ass mixes that other haws have thrived in for me.

Anyway, after trying to get it to recover in soil for probably 6 months, it became so wrinkled I thought it was on the brink of death (photo 1). I put it in water as a last resort, as I’ve seen other people do this for really dried out plants in an emergency scenario. It worked, but the difference between my situation and other peoples is that it took like 2.5 months, while people usually leave them in water for a few weeks at most? Photo 2 is from today. It hasn’t rotted, it has grown a good bit of roots, and it has sloooowly plumped up. I took it out of the jar to inspect today and decide if it was ready for soil but the outer leaves are still pretty floppy and not turgid at all, and I also accidentally broke off probably half of the roots it had thrown…the water roots are very fragile it seems.

I am wondering if anyone has words of wisdom in this scenario. Anyone been in a similar situation? How did you handle it? For now, I plan to let it sit in water for another few months until I can get it as plumped as possible and hopefully have it shed the stress coloring that it is holding on to.

It arrived in a mix of coco coir with a bit of perlite, I just replaced the soil with a 70% mineral 30% organic ratio, hopefully I'm doing this right! Will take care not to overwater.

So I'm relatively new to Haworthias but I've started going down the rabbit hole of varieties bred in places like China and Thailand, and oh my goodness I am blown away by these. I've spent about an hour just scrolling the inventory on this Hong Kong company's website called China Haworthia.

I am genuinely baffled that there are Haworthia varieties where the green is completely covered up by black, and then the variegated varieties with the black and orange have completely blown my mind...

Pictures are not mine, they're from the China Haworthia website.

My plant became etiolated so I stuck it in a brighter spot. Now there are babies coming out of the main stalks and the bottom leaves are dying out. Also I think they tried to flower but didn’t get very far. What should I do? I know you can behead it and just start over but I want to try to keep the mother plants alive.