Echeveria cante in the landscape

[XYZ]

 

One of the startling recent success stories out of succulent plant tissue culture, Echeveria cante from the uplands of Zacatecas State in Mexico is a beautiful dry garden subject. These things are mostly dinner plant-sized and coming into full flower just now; they will continue to flower into the fall. They are a little moisture-stressed, but otherwise quite representative of what good ones look like.They were installed last fall and handled the very wet winter amazingly well. They are open to the sky and have experienced a temperature range of 28 to 104 F (-2.2 to 40 C) over the past five months with no real aggro. Apparently hardy in Med climate zones to a few degrees F lower than this. I think this is Rancho Soledad's 'White Cloud' clone, which has distinct blue tints when happy. By far and away, one of the most striking members of a popular genus and now available at garden centers in parts of the US at reasonable prices. A far, far better landscape choice than Dudleya brittonii for most locations, but we grow plenty of those, too.

Flowers on a potted one on my deck.

A very nice, pure white clone that has been micropropagated and released by the Huntington, in a research greenhouse there last summer.

Cheers,

 

J

[Jdiaz31089]

I love Cante. I have two small ones I picked up in at a nursery in West hollywood earlier this summer for a couple of bucks. I'm curious if you know how readily these propagate from leaves - I have had very little success with the fancy, large-leaf echeverias when it comes to leaf propagation. 

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I don't think you can propagate these from leaves, but they will offset form time to time. If you're genuinely interested in propagating the giant spp, if you strip the stem bases of leaves on larger rosettes and treat leaf nodes with Keikigrow Plus, which is benzyladenine and lanoline, they offset pretty reliably.

[Jdiaz31089]

15 hours ago, stone jaguar said:

I don't think you can propagate these from leaves, but they will offset form time to time. If you're genuinely interested in propagating the giant spp, if you strip the stem bases of leaves on larger rosettes and treat leaf nodes with Keikigrow Plus, which is benzyladenine and lanoline, they offset pretty reliably.

Wow that's good to know. Thanks!