When the plant eventually gets too tall, cut the main stem off halfway up the plant, (best done Spring to Autumn).This is known as beheading. Leave the bottom half in the soil and continue to care for it as usual. Carefully remove the lowest leaves on the beheaded section, and place this in the top of an empty plant pot in full shade (No need to water). In around 2-4 weeks, it will develop roots, and it can then be replanted. Some can take a fair while longer though.The lower half left in the soil will also develop shoots. Remove all but one strong, lower, one. Cut the stem diagonally just above this shoot and sprinkle sulphur-dust on the cut. You now have 2 display plants.These hybrid Echeverias will rarely grow from leaves plucked off stems. The leaves may put out roots, but not shoots. We recommend that flower spikes be removed (when they appear) on the larger Echeverias, to keep their shape and height. Echeverias are not usually grown for their flowers, but for leaf colour and shape. It is very easy to obtain more plants from your existing hybrid echeverias, but not in large numbers, quickly. Some hybrids are sterile and will not produce viable seed. Seed from fertile hybrids is not a good option as hybrid plants do not grow true to type, and this 2nd generation seed (or F2) produce many weak, inferior plants that usually have the worst attributes of both parents, including increased disease vulnerability. c l o s e