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New babies! *arm dance*

10 years ago

Picked up some new succulents :) I don't even know what all of them are, yet. I must slow down on the acquisition until I have glass shelves built in the good windows. I'm running out of sill space!

I have 'succed' my kiddo into the plant fever, too, so technically some of these are hers to start her own collection ... but that amazing little aloe is mine, allll mine muwahahaha! It does have a couple little pups, so when I repot I can start one for her.

From top (as per tags): echeveria chroma, kalanchoe panda plant, echeveria perle Von Nurnberg, and aloe "assrtd" ha. Will need to look it up.


From local nursery, unidentified ... An echeveria, some type of crassula maybe and ??? with the large leaves.


The echeveria pvn in photo 1 had a loose leaf at the base, and when I pulled it off, it came with roots and a tiny pup :). I laid it in with a jade for now and lightly covered the roots.

Comments (4)

  • 10 years ago

    Congratulations - starting new hobby and getting your daughter interested is great. Are you going to have a competition who can grow them better or more of them? :) All are very nice plants.

    May I ask what are you going to use a new medium? Can you get them lots of light? The window looks like a privacy glass. Succulents need great light. After acclimatizing, they will do very well in full sun.

    It would help to know your general location - easy to add to your name...

    bunkfree_4a_canada thanked rina_Ontario,Canada 5a
  • 10 years ago

    Hi Rina :) I'm in Southern Alberta, Canada. Depending who you ask, we are anywhere from a 3 to 4a. I'll go edit that into my username (was noticing most of you have this info earlier today actually!). We get a lot of sunshine, and I have east, south, and west facing winows (semi-detached neighbour is on the North side).

    I plan to use 50/50 cactus mix and perlite. I haven't found any grit/pumice yet.

    That is privacy glass, but it's south facing and gets full sun all day. (Little windows that run under kitchen cabinets pictured above). I took the photos in the OP this morning when the sun was still in the east. I've had plants that touch it get sunburn (lipstick vine and pothos cuttings and some African violets that got large, for example).

    This happy crested cactus (big pink pot in above photo) is getting too big for that window. I keep turning it back and forth and it gets new growth closest to the window.

    I have three full windows on the south face, and will install some glass shelving to maximize my succulent area :) (blooming haworthia there)

    This south window and wall at the front entry definitely needs to be utilized:

    My best plant corner (below) is the southeast, I've actually fried some of my more tender plants here. Close up of my cacti as well, with a happy little bloomer. The fat one at far right has bloomed several times now, and the center one has bloomed once.

    I need to make hanging planters for the west-facing living room... The windowsills are the cat's domain. Plants not allowed - Dave is a plant muncher :(

  • 10 years ago

    Welcome from colder Alberta :)

    Great many plants you have there. So succulents are 'new kids on the block'. If you didn't grow any before, you'll be surprised how much more light they want. So give them the best, and even outdoors if possible. Your euphorbia looks really great. Haworthias and holiday cacti will do well in just a little less light. Jade plant (I see a forest there :) looks to be just a little etiolated - could be the photo, they are in background - the leaves seem to be bit far apart.

  • 10 years ago

    Thanks :) Colder Alberta, LOL!!

    Yup, cactus I've only had for a couple years, and succs are a new obsession. It's taken some adapting, I'm used to "regular" houseplants haha! I started with philodendrons.

    Euphorbia is the crested graft one? It seems happy, but outgrowing its pot a little. I'll do a separate thread for that. It was a gift from my mom, in a non-draining pot that I had to chisel glued rocks out of. I rarely water it, and when I do it gets only what fills the space between soil and pot rim (I pour fast and let it soak in).

    I'll get the haworthia and Christmas cactus a new home and give up that windowsill for the others that need the light.

    That jade on the counter is a nightmare. It's awaiting a massive haircut. It was a cutting from my original plant and was in the east window in one of the baskets.

    I had one little plant ten years ago and now I have, as you say, a forest! I gave the mama plant a haircut last year and couldnt bear to throw out all the millions of cuttings, so I stuffed them all in the planter, and potted a bunch of trunk sections which now all need pruning as well.

    I have sooooo many jades now, all from the one plant. They were the only succulent I had until recently. Here's the mama plant with nosy Dave checking out if its munch worthy, the little bugger LOL. I haven't repotted it in years, but have a new pot and will clean out all the babies at the bottom and work on the bonsai look more. I will start a thread for advice on that, as I recall reading some excellent threads on jades here and know I'll get good advice on where to cut.