Those succulents that first got you into the hobby, how are they doing now?
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My acquaintance with succulents began in September 2016. I went to the flower market with a colleague and brought back a mixed arrangement in a red plastic flowerpot. I still remember it was a White Bird (Mammillaria), Huangli (Sedum adolphi), Thousand Buddha Hands (Sedum pachyphyllum) and Black Prince (Echeveria 'Black Prince'). Wow! Four colors - just one more and I could summon the divine dragon! I scrolled for a long time through WeChat Moments posts from long ago and found their photos - so green and raw back then, the memory is still fresh. Although I've been in the hobby for two years, my succulent-growing skills have barely improved, yet my ability to kill succulents has grown - how sad.
Because I was a beginner, I overwatered, and the office is on the shady side, so both the Thousand Buddha Hands and the Black Prince grew leggy. The Black Prince got as leggy as the Nine-Layered Demon Pagoda - I really couldn't stand looking at it, so I took a scalpel and beheaded it. After drying, I placed it on moist potting soil and it quickly grew small white aerial roots. I was so thrilled. Now it looks like this - I haven't watered it for a long time, and the outermost leaves are a bit shriveled. I'm waiting for them to consume themselves to feed the leaves above, which is a bit cruel!
The cute Thousand Buddha Hands also grew like crazy, leggy as a dog. After beheading, it went wild producing side shoots - super prolific - and the side shoots grew like crazy too. It was really too ugly, so I cut off all the side shoots, induced roots, and repotted them. Still not very pretty, but it took two years, and I feel it witnessed my growth. I can't bear to throw them away, so I'll just leave them like this.
The Thousand Buddha Hands now. Every time I look at them I always think of the movie title "Chungking Express" for some inexplicable reason.
This is a pot grown from one or two strands of Golden Sedum (Sedum japonicum 'Tokyo Sun'), together with my White Bird. The White Bird has grown quite tall, and its head often follows the sun - it needs to be turned every two days. I feel like this article of mine is a negative example of succulent growing, ?? but I don't want it to be either.
When I bought the mixed arrangement, the shop owner gave me a leaf. Not knowing what it was, I happily trotted home and leaf-propagated it. Now I know it's a Pachyveria 'Clavifolia' (Dongmeiren).
The Pachyveria 'Clavifolia' moved to a new home - very cute, one of my favorite pots.
My succulents aren't as beautiful as the experts', and they grow very slowly. Last year I also started changing their soil and repotting them. They're not just potted flowers on my windowsill - they accompany me to work every day, witness my growth, and keep me silent company. Last year I added many succulents, but they still can't compare to the weight these first few pots hold in my heart. Indeed, never forget your original intention, and you'll reach the end.
Ice Plum (Echeveria 'Raspberry Ice'), green and ugly, and my best friend gave me a cute flowerpot for my birthday.
Ice Plum, repotted! Doesn't seem to have changed much, because it never gets any sun - poor succulent.
Peach Egg (Graptopetalum amethystinum), lots of colleagues like this pot of mine. No, no, I'm getting proud.
Oh! I don't know the name of this succulent. It's a colleague's succulent, and when it was down to a single leaf I took it to my office for emergency rescue. It slowly became like this, and I really like its color.
Ji Long Yue (Graptosedum 'Bronze'), colors up quickly, and this is how it looks sunned through the glass. You all say this one easily fills a pot from leaf propagation, so recently I also plucked a lot of its leaves, hehe.
Spider Web Houseleek (Sempervivum arachnoideum), over a year now. You're all used to the fact that my succulents barely grow, right, hehe. This one! It once grew bigger, then got black rot, and the leaves kept dropping. When I pulled it out, the roots were damaged, so I plucked all the outer leaves to expose the stem, induced roots, and succeeded! Hehe, happy.
The one on the left, the Echeveria pulvinata 'Ruby' (Jin Huang Xing), was grown from a colleague's flower stalk - I cut it off and induced roots to get this. Later the colleague was transferred away, and every time I see it I think of her. Right, the one on the right is the Red Bunny Ears (Kalanchoe tomentosa), hehe.
The Adia (Echeveria 'Adia') I bought last month. Because all my succulents are small, this kind of old stem is rare for me. But after buying it, it didn't really win my heart. Seems I still prefer growing them from small succulents, haha.
This is the photo I took of them after changing soil and repotting last month. There are a few more I didn't photograph one by one. Ever since I started growing succulents, I feel my temper isn't so impatient anymore. Succulents bring me more than just a silent joy. Thank you for being with me all along.
Fellow succulent lovers, the succulents that first got you into the hobby - are they doing well now?
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