Succulent Care and Education
We just picked up a couple of large planters and I didn’t want to use up all of my good soil, so I turned to the recycling bin for a solution!
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Trimming Old Lithops Leaves (and a rescue attempt!) If you live in a humid climate, you may find that the old leaves on your Lithops refuse to throughly dry. Here are some tips on what you can do to help remove them so water doesn’t get trapped between the old growth and the new plants (which would potentially cause them to rot.)
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Here’s a propagation progress video on the Graptopetalum paraguayense we started from leaves back in September! Can you believe it’s already been 10 months?? I also show you some of my favorite tools, a couple of newly acquired plants (not sucs but still fun!) AND a new little friend!
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PLANT MAIL TIME WOO! Here’s a fun and fast unboxing video featuring plants from Desert Bloom Nursery in the Texas Rio Grande Valley! ( https://desertbloomnursery.com )
I also show you the end results of how I chose to pot them up.
Ready to move your water rooted succulents to soil? Here’s how! Demonstrating with a Kalanchoe beharensis (variegated).
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It’s been 6 months since we started a batch of Graptopetalum paraguayense leaves and they’re doing great! Check out the progress of these lovely little variegated champion growers.
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This is the first round of plants I’ve got since the freeze (besides one other cactus) and I’m really excited to open them with y’all! Thank you to my mystery friend who sent me the gift certificate which gave me a gentle shove to get more succulents after feeling so bummed about those that I lost.
Continue… “Plant mail time! First succulent unboxing after the freeze”
We’re pruning the Ibervillea lindheimeri for a fresh start to 2021 and experimenting with some new plants!
Continue… “Last Sucs for You video of 2020!”
My Dorstenia bahiensis has already made more seeds! I noticed several had already popped in the window sill so I covered the flower with my trusty old silver sock 😅 Let’s see how many more seeds it gave me in this ‘unsocking’ video 🎁🙏
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In this 11 week update video we finally get to pot up some succulent leaf propagations! (Demonstrating with Graptopetalum paraguayense) I also show you a couple of neat ways some of my other plants propagate. Read on for care tips!
Continue… “Potting up succulent leaf propagations…what happens next”