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My Hummel Sunsets ...,

10 years ago

Long time lurker first time poster. Bought my first Jade a Crassula Ovata around 8 years ago and promptly melted it. Salvaged 3 cutting from the melt down and planted them in a 50/50 mix of store bought cacti soil and perlite after discovering this forum.

It took quite the effort getting my gritty mix together and then the Jade bug took hold. I had the good fortune of answering a local add for Hummel Sunsets and meeting a very generous forum member, Sam268 if I remember correctly. Came home with several cuttings of Hummels, Gollums and Hobbits.

2-3 years ago Sam gifted me a larger cutting of a Jade he ordered from Germany, it's a cross between a variegated and Hummel called a Helio (?) It was green and yellow with the typical Hummel red highlights. It's the bushy little one front and center in my first two pics. Unfortunately it's lost its yellow probably because last summer I was too lazy to follow the sun on my balcony.

This summer I've been religiously moving my two stands of Hummels and one Helio with the sun resulting in 4-5 hours of full sun daily (weather permitting of course). This fall


when the temps drop I expect I'll be rewarded with some good reds and yellows.

I will be taking pics of the rest of my collection shortly and posting them with lots of questions.

PS. The Helio is in a mix of cati soil and perlite, it wasn't doing to good in gritty mix.




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