Nice plant Jane. I got one earlier this year but it isn't looking that good yet.
This is another plant with multiple names too! According to International Crassulaceae Network, its correct name is 'Starburst'. ( I still refer to mine as 'Lemon and Lime' all the time though as otherwise it is easy to get it confused with 'Sunburst')
Thanks. I love this one and like Starburst but hadn’t heard it called this! I spoke to Surreal Succulents about reversion and the advice was to keep it shade! This sounds odd but I’m giving it a go! Sunburst really is my favourite although I have picked up one called Smithii just recently which may become my fav! It is another variable one. But I have several Mardi Gras and none is alike! Perhaps they should tell us this before we get hooked!
I agree with them being addictive - I'm up to 37 cultivars / species now!
Regarding the idea of shade for preventing reversion, I can understand not wanting to overly stress the plant as that might cause it but beyond that I think it's just random luck as to where the new shoot arose and whether it is variegated or not. I have a leaf cutting of Echeveria 'Enfant Variegata' and the first shoot was all green. I nipped the growing point out and it's stimulated two more shoots that are variegated as they've grown from different areas of the leaf base.
I am tempted to chop the head of my reversion cutting in the hope that what you did will work! I’ll try shade but not hold8ng breath. If that fails, off with his head! I’ll let you know!
JaneO wrote: ↑Sun Aug 02, 2020 6:20 pm
I am tempted to chop the head of my reversion cutting in the hope that what you did will work!
I don't think anything you do to the all-green one will work, but definitely worth a go on the partially variegated one. The hope is that offsets on the variegated part of the stem will give the 360' variegation, like the original rosette (3rd photo). Genetically, the plant is a chimera, with 2 different cells lines, and how those 2 different cell lines are arranged at the growing point will determine what variegation pattern results. It's the completely symmetrical ones that are most attractive, like your 3rd photo.
