An ordinary person's journey into succulents

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Author: Danni Baobei / Compiled by: Succulent Plant Atlas

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Speaking of how I first got involved with succulents, it should be since I was little. Back then my grandmother loved growing flowers and plants, and through constant exposure I gradually came to love them too. Back then there was no such name as "succulents," just cacti, cactus balls, lucky bamboo, and many flowers and plants whose names I couldn't even tell, and many of them were old plants. Thinking about it now, my grandmother was the real plant expert.

After I started school, I also liked swapping all kinds of flowers and plants with my classmates, but they were all taken home for my grandmother to grow. Later, after I got married, I also grew lots of flowers and plants at my own home, but with no experience, many of them died.

My real exposure to all kinds of succulents came after my child started kindergarten. Together with my child, I made a pot of dragon fruit seed plants, so cute. Occasionally I came across the word "little succulents" on Taobao and started paying attention to these adorable plants, and I fell into the cycle of buying them and killing them, then buying more after they died. Gradually I also accumulated some experience.

The adorable dragon fruit pot, later when I was repotting other succulents, I also repotted the densely packed dragon fruit pot, kept the ones growing well, and then I got the picture below.

Now this pot of dragon fruit plants looks wildly unruly.

The leaves knocked off the Graptopetalum paraguayense have even sprouted little seedlings!

Two or three months of changes, and by winter, basking in the sun on the balcony turned them a beautiful liver color. The crowded little leaf-propagation seedlings can't be seen anymore, so I made a separate pot and divided them out. Grow up slowly.

A pot of Othonna capensis I bought online, I started planting it late at night, and it's done! There aren't many trailing stems yet, and they're all green.

After a few months, the Othonna capensis, winter came, and it started changing color. Isn't it beautiful!

The Othonna capensis that became super gorgeous, it's bursting out of the pot, and the color is beautiful too!

A little Sedum adolphi I got from the night market, compact and beautiful.

Later, because of an accident the pot shattered, and the Sedum adolphi thus became a beheaded seedling. The great Sedum adolphi mother sprouted two heads.

The mother plant that sprouted heads

The upper half regrew roots and survived, but after going through summer it became green and leggy, too awful to look at.

After going through summer and autumn, the leggy Sedum adolphi also started sprouting a few little buds, and gradually became beautiful again.

The Echeveria chihuahuaensis with little red tips

Echeveria 'Snowy'

Sedum morganianum, now it's also starting to sprout pups.

The adorable bear paw

The newly acquired peach egg, looking forward to a whole grove of peaches.

The kalanchoe blooming into a ball

And the lucky bamboo I've grown for about four years

Growing succulents isn't something you can just buy on a whim. You have to slowly figure out the habits of each variety as well as the soil mix and watering rhythm. When I'm in a bad mood, I'm willing to look at these little sprites, and then I cheer up. It counts as cultivating the mind and character too! Since it's a high-rise balcony, I can't grow them outdoors, so the succulents aren't big and the colors aren't that pretty, but they're all my darlings. Now it's spring, and opening the windows more lets them get sun and ventilation. I look forward to your comeback!

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