The market for Peach Eggs and Ebonies has cooled off. Is it still far off for Aeoniums and succulents to cool down?

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Location: Changzhou, Jiangsu Province

Aeoniums are incredibly popular right now, and they are about to enter their best state period. I guess after seeing all kinds of glamorous photos of Aeoniums, everyone's desire to get one has grown even stronger. But some fancily named Aeoniums cost several hundred yuan at a moment's notice. Is that price reasonable? After seeing the bizarre Aeonium below, judge for yourself.

In August 2015, my son bought a Green Aeonium online and gave it to me, his mother who loves green plants.

At the time I did not know this was a succulent plant, so I just raised it like an ordinary green plant. I dug up a bit of mud from the community green belt and planted it.

It grew really fast. After two or three months it looked like this.

At the end of January 2016, a cold wave struck, and the temperature suddenly dropped to minus 10°C. At that time I had not been exposed to succulents and had no idea how succulents should overwinter or get through summer. I left it on the balcony without taking it seriously, and as a result it froze into a mushy mess.

I did not expect it to live. I threw it on the balcony without doing anything, yet it actually did not freeze to death, and the leaves were not frostbitten either. After the temperature rose, it slowly recovered and was alive and well.

In the spring of 2016 it grew madly, looking just like a Beatle.

In the summer of 2016, the leaves became round and the Aeonium became beautiful. Compared with how it looked when I first bought it in August 2015, after a full year it had grown twice as large and twice as tall.

In June 2016 I entered the succulent hobby and learned a lot about raising succulents. I learned that using mud to raise succulents does not work, so in April 2017 I changed its pot and soil.

In July 2017 came a once-in-a-century heatwave with many consecutive days at 40°C, and it dropped leaves severely.

In the end the leaf core turned black, and after all the leaf drop only a few leaves remained.

A bald top has the same effect as beheading, and the little pups burst out vigorously. Looking at these tiny new buds, I finally felt a bit comforted.

The top of every branch was packed with small buds.

On November 8, 2017, when I saw this kind of description in a post by the Aeonium master Xiaofei, I thought something bad was about to happen.

Something was wrong. My Green Aeonium looked exactly like this.

The main stem had shriveled too.

I quickly pulled it out to take a look, and the roots had rotted until they were black. If I had not read the experience post by the Aeonium master Xiaofei, who would have thought, based on the thriving new buds on top, that the roots had rotted like this? (Here I offer my most sincere thanks to the master Xiaofei!)

Out came the kitchen knife. Chop!

After three cuts, the main stem was still black.

It could only be dismembered, and only when green core was visible would it do. Look at this miserable state. Whether it can live is still uncertain.

I dried the roots for ten days before potting it. Everyone knows that a one-millimeter root needs to be dried for one day, a two-millimeter root for two days, and so on. Mine was about one cm, so it had to be dried for more than a week. Although one summer had set me back to square one, and I did not know whether it had grown roots, seeing that the leaves on the tips of the shriveled stems had genuinely grown larger, it should have survived. Photographed on January 12, 2018.

After another two months, the change was not just a little bit. Photographed on March 5, 2018.

The main stem had already become plump, but this stem was still a bit shrunken.

By May, the shriveled stems had all become plump, and the leaves had grown very lush too. Photographed on May 21, 2018.

It had even mutated.

Is this the so-called Lasthua Variegated Aeonium?

The Green Aeonium had become a Lasthua Variegated Aeonium.

Let me quietly enjoy this.

Aeoniums grow fast and have strong vitality. With some varieties on the market now priced so artificially high, are you still chasing them? Wait a while. Everything has always heated up fast and cooled down fast! Peach Eggs are no longer hot, Ebonies are no longer hot. Is it still far off for Aeoniums to cool down?

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