Only after growing succulents for a long time do you understand that all good things are worth waiting for

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Submission date: 2018-04-20

Edited and compiled by: Encyclopedia Jun

Location: Yichang City, Hubei Province

My story with succulents starts a year ago. That's right, I started seriously growing succulents in April 2017. Actually, before 2017, my best friend had given me two pots of succulents, but at the time I had no idea what they were called or how to care for them, and since I was working in Wuhan then, those two succulents, as expected, ended up dead under my care. Later on, that is, in April 2017, I quit my job and went home, and my best friend, afraid I'd be bored, ordered another batch of succulents for me online. The pots, soil, plants and planting tools arrived straight at my home, and from then on I became completely obsessed with succulents. Below are a few photos from after a few months of growing them. As for the photos from when they were first planted, I thought they looked too ugly and deleted them long ago

I really went all out back then to keep the birds away.

My own home-sown dragon fruit stole the spotlight!

The Sedum rubrotinctum was as leggy as could be, and at the time I still thought it looked quite nice

The Opalina was also quite thin.

Those are all the photos from back then, but actually I had twenty or thirty pots of succulents, big and small. The summer in Yichang is also surprisingly hot; last summer the highest temperature soared to 40°C, yet they actually made it through the summer smoothly, not a single pot died, which made my confidence in growing succulents shoot up, and so led me into the endless cycle of buying pots and buying succulents afterward.

Once I'd bought the succulents, but my home had no balcony, and the earlier succulents had always been placed on the windowsill. Later there was no more room, and a few pots got squeezed off, so I shifted my succulent-growing target to a small 2 sq m terrace on the rooftop.

This is what the succulents on the terrace looked like then; at the end of September I began the path of outdoor growing.

After about a month of outdoor growing, I saw obvious changes in the succulents, and during this time I kept buying, buying, buying. Not only did the succulents multiply, but the flower racks for growing them were constantly changing too. Below are some photos of the outdoor growing. I've included some comparison photos. The photos were all taken with my phone, with no beauty-filter effects.

Once the Sedum rubrotinctum colored up, it was so beautiful it made me enchanted.

Opalina comparison photo.

Jelly Sedum pachyphyllum comparison photo.

Afterglow Dance comparison photo.

Xiuyan comparison photo

Saussurea comparison photo.

Tom Comic.

Every morning I first go up to the rooftop to look at my succulents before going downstairs to wash my face and brush my teeth. After all, I think succulents under the sun and rain are the most beautiful. Miss it and it's gone.

Some little cuties

As for growing succulents, even though I keep buying, buying, buying, my husband supports it too. The custom-made flower racks, which I couldn't manage on my own, were also carried up by my husband from the first floor to the third-floor rooftop for me

Because I was growing more and more, sometimes when I posted photos on WeChat Moments many people would ask me how to grow them, and before I knew it I had inspired a large group of people to grow succulents with me and discuss how to grow them together. That process feels especially wonderful.

As for care experience, since it's outdoor growing and faces southeast, there's at least six hours of sunlight a day, and the ventilation is fairly good. Generally when it rains I just let them get rained on directly, and only when I occasionally run into ten days to half a month of continuous rain do I cover them a bit. Also, I think spring and autumn rain is even better for succulents than fertilizer, so my succulents have never been fertilized. They may not grow very plump, but with a bit of water control they'll always plump up, right.

I didn't miss a single rain in spring. Compared with winter they've faded quite a bit. Below are some group photos of part of them.

That's all for today. Spring is about to pass, and next comes the rather terrifying summer. May all the succulents get through the summer smoothly

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