Haworthia Form and Color Experiments
Haworthia Form and Color Experiments Written by Miles Ridgway - Henry’s Haworthia Owner-Operator 02-30-2024 Contents: 1 - Introduction 2 - Form 3 - What Are Stress Colors 4 - What Didn’t Work 5 - What Did Work 6 - Final Remarks Introduction Shortly after I started collecting Haworthia plants in 2016, I quickly became obsessed with their variability in form and color. Realizing that the exact same variety has the potential to look like two completely different plants (Fig. 1–3), resulting only from their growing conditions, I began my experimentation. My goal was to reproduce, in cultivation, the dazzlingly bright reds, oranges, and yellows I was seeing in photography of wild Haworthia in their habitat. It's easy to make Haworthia change color by withholding water. The rosettes will close up, the leaves will shrivel, and they'll turn burgundy or m