Aeonium Cyclops

It’s always amazing when an Aeonium Cyclops starts to form there flower heads. #aeoniumcyclops #succulentsunday

One of my oldest in the garden space, 4 years old and a gift from my daughter Sarah @saguaro #succulent #inthegardentoday #inthegardentoday

Beautiful gift from Sarah 🥰

Thank you 🙏

So tall, 4 feet. #succulentsunday #aeonium #cyclops the biggest is the species

4 feet tall and amazing, can’t wait till it flowers #succulentsunday #aeonium #lookingdown

At 4 feet it must be really #intimidating -- especially with that #totallygoth coloration...

4 feet tall and amazing, no flower head this year though #aeoniumcyclops #succulent #succulentsunday

Lola #photobomb looks like no flower head this year.

Hope she flowers this spring #succulentsunday #aeonium one of my favorite plants 😊

Aeonium Cyclops in bloom #beautiful #flashbackfriday

Lovelllly

The largest of the species #aeonium the largest head on this one is the size of a basket ball. Had to keep one of these during the plant sale purge. The original cuttings came from my daughter Sarah @saguaro for Christmas 3 years ago. My oldest succulent these days. #succulentsunday

Technically the gardeners at my apartment were uprooting them and I grabbed them before they threw them away. Score!

Looking incredible I love #aeoniums there flowers are incredible wish it flowered but it didn’t #cyclops #succulentsunday #foliagefriday #bekind got a bunch of new plants from my brother tonight. I’ll post them tomorrow 😊

This Cyclops was out front it the sun and is dark in color because of that. Time to move it out back to grow it green, the way I like them, @lesliecole49 @hebelover and @KariSamuel

It's still gorgeous mines fairly green at the moment

It’s nice this color but green looks so much better when the flower @lesliecole49

If that ever happens for me!

Ooh it’s so gorgeous just the way it is 😍

Love the dark red

Mine are just so poorly. Hopefully they will be ok.

Forget to post my latest Cyclops, this one I’m hoping it will flower this year, she’s pretty big

How is the back patio coming.

All construction stoped a week ago @kelsey92 just a slab of concrete

What will do with the greenhouse.

Wait I guess @kelsey92 it may just be a covered patio and no greenhouse when I put it back up

Keep me posted. U need your greenhouse back up.

@kelsey92 you’ll see the posts when it happens, no telling when that will be

So far so good @philstalder I think there getting very close for shipping

Looking good👍

Thanks @crabby58

Oh wow they look awesome. 👍

2 of them still turned, they don’t have roots yet. Is you can turn the stem in the soil it’s not ready @philstalder the one with 2 heads is rooted

Oh cool. That’s good to know. Thanks 😊

Well there they are @philstalder 4 heads in one pot, waiting for a good rooting before I send them to you #succulents

Oh wow, those look amazing. Thanks David. I’m excited and hope I do them proud. 😊

I didn’t forget about you @philstalder

Thanks. I’m not on here as much so I’m losing touch with some. Thanks again. 😊

A big one on the front porch. Probably be the next one to flower. I hope. Needs a bigger pot, keeps falling over. I was going to send this to @philstalder but he told me not to feel obligated. Now is way to big to ship now. The man has everything, over 900 plants. If I had the space and flower beds like him. I’d probably be the same, lol 😆

Wow 🤩 I changed my mind go ahead and send it. You can hire a mayflower semi. Just kidding but I should have said yes when I had the chance. Lol 😂

There are plenty of limbs I can send you @philstalder I’ll work on something for ya

Cool, thanks. I’m in Arkansas of all places tomorrow and all next week so no hurry. FYI. Lol 😂

Ok @philstalder I have to root the cuttings then send them.

Sounds good thanks David 👍 @docthrill

Some of the smaller limbs of the big flowering head. I hoped the would flower to but not so much, this year

Flower head is definitely looking like a spiral now. It’s so tall, she doubled her height producing this flowers

Wow

That's pretty amazing😯

Thank you @lesliecole49 and @cowdenkyle it was a Christmas present from my daughter Sarah @saguaro a over a year ago. The gift that keeps on giving

That's for sure. Great gift👍

And it gave to me, too! Well, maybe not this one but you know what I mean. 😄

One day, both of yours will do this with every head they make. @lesliecole49 not your average succulent indeed. Just remember, they eventually get very top heavy so put them in a heaven pot to keep them upright.

Right, @docthrill I've had that in mind, in the market for some pretty pots

This one would have been 18 inches taller had it not broke in half @lesliecole49 it’s 41 inches tall now. Very top heavy

All of her flowers shriveled up or something I’ve never seen before. A new spiral of buds are getting ready to flower. @beatnikcrab you were right, several surprises

The gift that keeps on giving! 🎉🎁😂

It does @beatnikcrab

She’s in full bloom and showing off

Wow 😍😍😍 I'm speechless,everything is just beautiful

Thank you very much @catherine02 I love garden space pictures, says a little about the person who made it.

@jmlincoln Jackie this is what the flower head will look like. This is a Cyclops but the flower heads are the same, I love Aeoniums full grown . The flower head grows in a spiral

Whaaaat!? Really? How long does this typically take to happen? I was shocked I was able to keep it alive this past winter. I was going to give up on it this winter but maybe I keep trying now! Thanks so much for teaching me all this 😊

They can take years to produce a flower head Jackie @jmlincoln I had this one for 2 years before it did. It was big when I got it. I keep mine in shade in the greenhouse because I like the green colors as well as the sunburn dark colors. They look fantastic in a flower bed of many.

All great info! Thanks so much again 👍🏻

Here’s mine last year, still have a big one this year @hebelover @lesliecole49 and @KariSamuel

I remember when you posted it

An amazing top view, and she’s not quite finished yet

Wow she just keeps on giving 🤩

@philstalder it really does, right

Nice side view #foliagefriday

The flowers are opening and she’s a stunner 😊

Definitely a stunner👍

#newgrowth inside this multi limb Cyclops could separate them for new plants, but I really like it that way

I wouldn't interfere with it either!

I like it when they clusters like that

I agree, they look great that way!

Oh yeah, flowers are opening @beatnikcrab you were so right it going to be that amazing surprise you said it would be 🙂 all is #newgrowth it’s grown a foot in one month for this flower cluster, amazing 🤩

Yay, that's going to be such a nice tower of flowers! 😍

She just keeps getting taller every week. Another month to go before she shines

Wow, plants really love you! How beautifully they are growing and they look so healthy, well done 👏

Here’s a closer look at the flowers spikes popping out around that stem. How’s it looking now @beatnikcrab

Looks good!! It's getting there! 😁👍

More progress on that flower stalk, still have another month to finish opening all her flowers.

Fun watching this flower stalk progress

Forgive me if I’ve posted this one a lot but it’s flower spike is getting taller every day, never seen this before in the 2 years I’ve had her #succulentsunday the size of this Cyclops is incredible and she’s going to show off not too long from now

If your Cyclops breaks off or your blooming head dies off, not to worry, something amazing will come from this

Neat photo

I almost forgot about this #cyclops when a cyclops breaks or you remove the deadhead, this happens, a total of 18 heads now @lesliecole49 @philstalder and @beatnikcrab pretty cool 😎 right. #bonsai

Beauty!! 😍😍😍 It's like an aeonium bonsai! 🌳

Wow

This is amazing looking doc!💘😍

Wow that’s amazing 🤩

Looks great👍

What care do you give it when the head breaks off to get these results @docthrill ?

@Prettypotty you don’t change it’s care, you just care for it as if nothing was wrong with it and before you know it, multiple heads start growing

This #cyclops has always been a show off from the time @saguaro gave it to me. Now it’s going through an amazing transformation, @beatnikcrab says it will take a couple of months to produce its flower stalk, it grew an inch day after day for about a week now. Cyclops has always been a fast grower but nothing like this before, she’s really getting ready to show off

Everything looks great!!!!! 😍

Thank you @sherrisgarden you and Phil I think I’ve known the longest next to my daughter Sarah

Great colors 👍

The amazing flowers of the #aeonium-cyclops @lesliecole49 @philstalder and @beatnikcrab #notmypicture one cool thing about after the head dies after flowering you can chop the head off and multiple stems will grow at the top of the stalk . Any pice of there stalk will grow into a new plant.

Amazing things a plant can do. 🧐

I read that too! Very cool

One of the cyclops I sent you @lesliecole49 was grown from a pice of stem, the bigger one

The one that the shelf fell on? You can see where it broke. They grow quickly. That's the one in the picture

Yes it is @lesliecole49 I like to reuse soil and blend my own mix and some how that pice got buried in the mix, 2 months later I found it and stuck it in the ground and now it’s with you. So any stem you break off is another plant

Works for me.....

It’s doing something I’ve never seen them do before, @beatnikcrab says it’s about to flower, can’t wait 😛 #succulentsunday

Yup! All those new growths are flower stems. It'll keep elongating and produce a big cone of flowers before dying. The whole thing takes a few months from start to finish.

I looked it up @beatnikcrab it’s amazing 😳 incredible yellow flowers and a lot of them, now I understand why you said surprise

I only knew it happens bc someone on a different plant app once posted photos of it happening to hers from start to finish. I don't remember what the species was, but hers was a single blue rosette over a foot across, and the flower cone ended up being far wider than the rosette was, with a million tiny white flowers. By the time she beheaded it she had 15 or 20 new rosettes growing around the stem. She lived in the San Francisco area, iirc.

Congratulations, can't wait to see your updates on this one!!

The largest cyclops I’ve ever seen and is beautiful in green, no sun stress brown at all, she’s special and sports a pair lol 😁 #succulentsunday this is what the grow to be @philstalder

Sounds amazing 🤩

Looks like it's getting ready to bloom! 🤩

I don’t believe aeoniums flowers, they propagate by stem. Any pice of stem will grow into a plant. Leaves or not @beatnikcrab

They totally flower! 😂 Just you wait, it's gonna be spectacular! 😜 Or you can look it up online if you want to spoil the surprise. Unfortunately the head dies after blooming, but there are usually plenty more to take its place.

I took a closer look at the top of the head today, it’s definitely doing something I’ve never seen them do before, you are so right @beatnikcrab I’m excited now

Another cyclops with 16 branches growing at the top of a broken stalk. One of my favorites. The top of the broken cyclops is even better or huge I should say #succulentsunday

I have several of these and there largest of all the aeoniums and very hard to find in the nurseries. You like this one @philstalder

Haha yes I do. 👍

Do you want it @philstalder look at my big ones and this ones head is the size of a soccer ⚽️ I’ll find a box big enough to send it.

Sure as long as it can take sun. I don’t have any shady areas left for anything. 👍

This one is in the burning sun right now @philstalder you can grow them anywhere there so hardy. My daughter grows hers inside. I grow mine in the shade to keep it green

Oh ok. I was working in my backyard and it was 75 today. I had to stop bc the sun was so blazing hot even though temp wise it wasn’t. That’s the only area I have any more room for plants and I’m trying to get something going there but literally zero shade.

Ok, I’ll find you something, not easy to do when you have everything. If you eat this I’ll send it. I can also find you some kind of blazing sun plant for sure. Cyclops can handle very high temperatures @philstalder

Thanks David. Don’t feel obligated. I appreciate it but i know it’s hard to send plants. Bulbs are much easier as I found out. Lol. I have nothing but time so whenever is best for you. You and Cherie have a nice weekend. 😊

Ok @philstalder I understand

My cyclops is no longer round like a basketball, looks more like a conehead, pretty cool 😎

Looks great 👍 And love this picture too, your garden space looks fantastic and so tropical 😍

Thank you Jason @hebelover it’s pice of tropical in the middle of the city of Fresno California. Fun part of having a greenhouse. Great humidity for this tropical plats I love.

These are my special Cyclops @lesliecole49 it use to be one plant, the one on the left use to be the top, on the right is the bottom half. When it was cut in half by the shelf fall, I was devastated. Now I’m great full. Cyclops are largest of these type Aeonium, these have been grown in the shade so they stay this beautiful green. In the sun they are very brown

#succulent

That’s so cool. 😎

They're gorgeous, and if you can grow them in shade, I'm probly good for the winter

So gorgeous and healthy! 💚

WOW!!

Here’s an Aeonium Cyclops with sun stress colors, #succulentsunday the big one has a head as big as a soccer ball

Wow that’s huge 👍

You like these @lesliecole49

I do have a small grow light I could put it under in the winter. Hopefully, I'll have another (light) by next year

I got your address and it will be after the 15th of this month when I’ll have the funds to properly send it. It’s a whole plant in a pot and pretty good size. I’ll use the box @philstalder sent me it’ll work great @lesliecole49 I’ll pack it so it won’t get damaged, got everything to do that. I’ll let you know when it’s on the way ups

Oh my gosh! I'm excited! Thanks so much

It does feel really good to get a plant from a GT friend @lesliecole49

It does, and I've been a recipient of a few nice cuttings but this'll be my first planted plant! 💃

The one on the right is yours @lesliecole49

This is a very large #cyclops the largest head is as big as a basketball. It’s been in indirect sunlight for quite a while now so instead of sun stressed brown is this amazing green. It use to ba about 2 feet taller but it broke in half and now the bottom half is a whole different plant now @lesliecole49 I’ll take some pictures of others I have that are brown, in the daylight, tomorrow and post them

I’ll take a pic of mine. Not sure it’s the same but it is big☺️

I remember when it fell... sure has done great since then

I’m proud of this one @lesliecole49 I’m just as proud of the bottom half with 16 branches

You should be! Its fabulous

I sent you a request for your address on Gmail to mail it. Ignore the Comcast mail I never use it. I don’t know why I sent it on that @lesliecole49

One of my favorite succulents the #aeonium-cyclops and it’s incredible size. We have several but this is the biggest. #bestof

One my favorite succulents. Definitely the largest. The large head is the size of a basketball 🏀

Impressive

It really is @txgardener you have good taste

The big one is the size of a basketball #succulentsunday

This is the biggest succulent we have the top rosette is 14 inches across. #bestofnovember

Looks like fireworks

Yeah, I guess it does look like fireworks exploding @heatherdirtyhands

Awesome plant. 😊💚

Every time I think that it can’t possibly get any bigger, it proves me wrong.

16 limbs spouted from the bottom half of a #cyclops stalk. When it gets bigger it’s definitely going to be top heavy

Going to be a cool tree🌞

Cleaned out the dead leaves on this #aoenium-cyclops and finally got a solid count of limbs, 16 it lost 2 feet of the top of the plans. Instead of tossing it. I kept watering it and this is the final result. The top that broke of is also doing well. I did break off one of its limbs witch would have been 17 limbs. Stuck it in the ground and it’s done well too. Very easy to propagate

My daughter gave this #cyclops was given to me by my daughter @saguaro Sarah for Christmas last year. It’s the top half of the broken original. The bottom half is still alive with many new limbs.

Beautiful, I've never seen one before. ❤ @docthrill

It sure has done nicely since it broke

Sure is a cool plant 😎 love it 😀 😍

That’s a stunner!😍

For #succulentsunday

These #cyclops are som of my favorite in our collection #foliagefridayfriday

Gorgeous!!!!!

These two use to be one plant. The left was the top and the main head is humongous. The right use to be the bottom and has 14 new limbs. It was a Christmas present from my daughter Sarah @saguaro

The top of this broke off, now look at it. I can grow a stick, 😆

😂😂 still looks great to me !!

The bottom of my #cyclops today

Mine died ! :(

Wow @kimmy01 , very hardy plant. Instead of soil that drains and has a lot of perlite, use good all purpose soil and let it hold as much water as it wants. I water them ever day except in the winter, I let them dry out. From that point on any piece of it with the smallest amount of stem, I stick in the ground and it grows, with roots or not.

Me and a friend got the same plant from the same place and hers died too .... They had these funny furry bugs on I had to get rid of them but they would come back. Shame but I'm sure I'll find it again and try again 😊

Oh and I didn't know how hardy out was lol it was only this year I noticed some one on Facebook had them all over in her garden! 😮😅

Yeah I’m just ok when dealing with bugs @kimmy01

The top half of my #cyclops today.

They are huge! So strong and healthy!!! Very impressive David! 👍🏻😊👍🏻

This is a #throwback #picture. Early January, a Christmas present. Very tall but it had been neglected when @saguaro found it. It now is 2 plants because it broke in half, and both are amazing 😉

I remember when that happened, nice they're both doing so well

My third #succulentsunday post for today is the cyclops. Not a particularly colorful succulent but one of my favorites. It was broken in half and this is the top. It was twice as tall as it is now and has recovered amazingly well.

This is the bottom half of my broken Cyclops. It has started 14 new branches right at the break. Can you imagine what it’s going to look like 6 months from now. Can’t wait !

The bottom half of that same #cyclops.

I like the name of this one.