SBCSS hosts a plant growing contest where plants are distributed and brought back a year later to judge who grew them best. Awards are given and winners are asked to share their cultivation tips and tricks.
2023 Grow-Off Distribution:
Past Grow-Off Distributions:
- 2001
- Hylocereus undatus
- 2002
- Calibanus hookeri
- 2003
- Aloe thraskii
- Pachypodium baronii v. windsorii
- 2004
- Aristolochia fimbriata
- Bowiea volubilis (nana form)
- Aloe ferox
- Albuca (cocinna)
- 2005
- Massonia pustulata
- 2006
- Aloe citrea (syn. Lomatophyllum citreum)
- Agave stricta
- 2007
- Trimezia coerulea (syn. Cypella coerulea)
- Furcraea roezlii
- Aristolochia fimbriata (marked venation form)
- 2008
- Tulipa montana (syn. T. chrysantha)
- Aloe (small hybrids)
- 2009
- Agave vilmoriniana
- Romulea citrina
- Talinum paniculatum (syn. Talinum patens)
- 2010
- Cyclamen hederifolium v. lineatum
- 2011
- Plectranthus ernstii
- 2012
- Echeveria × ‘Bah Humbug’
- Crassula ovata ‘Curly Jade’
- 2013
Plectranthus socotranus - Hylocereus (yellow × red ‘Dragon Fruit’)
- Echeveria × ‘Bah Humbug’
- 2014
- Agave aurea v. capensis
- Albuca osmynella (syn. Ornithogalum osmynellum)
- 2015
- Crassula tetragona ssp. connivens
- Furcraea foetida ‘Exotica’
- 2016
- Aloe buhrii
- 2017
- Monanthes brachycaulos
- Haworthia attenuata hybrids
- Pachypodium succulentum
- Epiphyllum hybrids (‘Fluid Gold’ × small pink)
- 2018
- Aloe burhii
- 2019
- Calibanus hookeri
- Fockea edulis
- Hippeastrum hybrids
- Agave guiengola
- 2020
- Aloe lineata
- Kalanchoe schizophylla
- Pachypodium lamerei
- Polyxena sp. nova
- 2021
- (no Grow-Off distribution due to COVID)
- 2022
- Dudleya brittonii
- Neobuxbaumia euphorbioides
- 2023
- Aloe marlothii
- Ledebouria cooperi