My Succulent's Tour (Updated) February 2023 Garden Journal

Hello again everyone! I am very happy to participate in a new Garden Journal Challenge, the first of the year! This time I want to give you a little tour of my current succulents, and tell you a little bit about how it has been taking care of each one of them, the curiosities I have noticed and tips I have discovered. I hope you enjoy reading and also enjoy my little plants!

Well first of all... There has been a lot going on since the last time I did a succulents tour 😆 It rained like never before, now we are hit by the typical drought of this time of the year... there were accidents and terrorist attacks 🤣 (joking)

First a report of the injured:

Those were this Graptoveria Fenix and the Sedum Morganianum, which I inadvertently tripped over while pruning another plant and well... there was a funeral, and some survivors hahaha.

Previously they looked like this:

That made feel super sad for like a entire week, but luckily I've learned that these plants are really resistant and i'm sure they'll look like before really soon!

The next is the one that suffered the terrorist attack 😂 It's a fairy castle Cactus that was almost completely eaten by some terrorist insect.

It was originally like this when it was just transplanted to that place, it grew a little bit more and then it started to get attacked

And it ended up like the picture in the left, the one in the rigth was a cutting i separated but it is ugly as well... maybe I should plant a new one

Now the rest of them:

This is a Sedum Rubrotictum I have found it particularly difficult to keep it in the proper shape, I think perhaps it needs little water and lots but lots of sun, so that it can look compact and with red leaf tips as is its shape.

I have planted several cuttings of this one and very few have survived... they stretch and lose their leaves, I hope this one will do better.

Echeveria runyonii:

This one i'm not sure if it's some Pachyphytum or Graptosedum, however, is pretty! Also, if you know wchich one is for sure, I'd love to know its ID!!

The Graptopetalum Paraguayense was my first succulent, It brings so many memories from when I just saw a cute plant and didn't have idea about succulent world 😆

I love it because as well as the two previous ones, they are very easy to care for. These have needed practically nothing apart from a transplant when they got too big, but that's about it so far.

I don't know the ID of this one either but it looks like an Echeveria perhaps, as for the care I could say it is intermediate, it has not been as delicate as the graptosedum rubrotinctum, however it has almost died on a couple of occasions and I have had to decapitate it and replant it (maybe next time I will apply cinnamon when cutting and aloe when planting to see if it works better) Also note that it is good to have it in a wide pot since it is the type you notice that they fall and grow like that.

The good part is that it reproduces well by leaves, and as you can see here, besides the previous stem from which will come out more shoots, from the leaves will also come out several plants!

Huernia Macrocarpa I said in a previous post how I got this plant to flower... I literally don't what I did but seems that putting it in a different, maybe wetter spot, made it flower bacause I have several plants of this before and none of them flowered before!

However, as soon as I touched it when I noticed the flowers, it didin't flower anymore haha the buttons I saw dried... I don't know what can I do...

they are not very noticeable but there are a couple of flower buds... please bloom!

Last but not least! My other cacti, babies Mammilaria Gracilis and an Echinopsis I have not much to say about them... they are... Stoic haha, the Mammilaria blooms with a pretty tiny white flower after 1 year or so of growth.

Now that you've met all my current succulents, thanks for reading! If you have any tips or advice that can help me with anything, I'd really appreciate it if you could leave them in the comments. See you next time!