Fun Stories from Succulent Care: A Soft Girl Turns Herself into a Tough Girl for the Sake of Succulents

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Submission date: 2018-05-22

Edited and compiled by: Encyclopedia Jun

Location: Weining, Guizhou

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I still remember the first time I saw a succulent was in 2015. I happened to see a pot of succulent plants outside a farmhouse courtyard. At the time I didn't know what it was called, I just inexplicably liked it very much. The local told me it was called Thick Skin (Pachyphytum oviferum, also known as Moonstone or Winter Beauty), a name that doesn't match the image of succulents at all, but it couldn't change my love for succulents from then on.

After coming back, I wanted to buy two pots to grow. I searched all the local flower shops but couldn't find any succulents for sale, so I searched for succulent communities, joined succulent groups, and through the introduction of fellow succulent lovers I bought my first pot: First Love (Echeveria 'First Love'). When I first started, it was winter, and knowing nothing, I planted it in garden soil and immediately watered it. As a result, when I got up the next day, I found it frozen into a big popsicle. The photos from then are gone. Later it recovered and had a few leaves left. In a QQ group, enthusiastic fellow succulent lovers said it could be propagated by leaf cuttings, and as a beginner I actually succeeded. Even now I'm still growing its descendants.

When I first started, I thought succulents couldn't get rained on or sunbathed, so I kept them indoors. At the time the succulents had grown leggy like dogs, but I thought they were growing well. When I chatted in the succulent plant group and saw how beautiful other people's succulents were - so red and plump - I sent them pictures of my succulents, and they told me this was etiolation, from watering too much and not getting sunlight. If you want succulents to grow well, outdoor growing is the king's way! So I began my outdoor growing journey. Below are comparison photos of the succulents' growth.

The rose after growing up

The Echeveria 'Onslow' when I first started growing it

The Echeveria 'Onslow' after coloring up

The Echeveria 'Onslow' after growing up

Sempervivum arachnoideum (Spider Web Houseleek)

Can you believe that in just one month, there could be such a big difference?

Little Green Bear (Cotyledon tomentosa, Bear's Paw) (still this picture, hehe)

The Bear's Paw growing up

A comeback

The red curled leaf that turned green like a vegetable

The red curled leaf after its comeback

The Sasa that is popping heads

The Sasa after its comeback

After seeing so many ugly ducklings turn into swans, has it added a bit more love in your heart for the magical succulents?

I didn't like Aeoniums before, but after seeing the Aeoniums of the great master Su Jun, I also became infatuated with Aeoniums

Lily Lili

Aeonium haworthii (Pinwheel)

Aeoniums and roses also go well together

Splendens

Succulents: give them time, and they will return you with abundant blooms.

Green Velvet photographed last summer

Opalina

Julice

Now, besides Aeoniums, I've planted all the other varieties in the ground. To help the succulents grow better, I, a girl, turned into a tough girl, carrying bricks and soil upstairs myself, including building the Aeonium shelf all by my own hands.

Ice Plum (Graptopetalum mendozae) grown from a small single head, still fairly green in color now

I don't know if this is Pink Mandy

This Queen was frozen last winter until only a stalk was left. Fortunately, over the course of a spring it slowly recovered.

My favorite little arrangement

Little Yellow Bear (Cotyledon tomentosa, Bear's Paw)

Xiuyan

Cute Rose

Peach Egg (Graptopetalum amethystinum)

Red-edged Moon Shadow isn't red this season

Blue Apple

Blue Anna

Ice Plum

Guanghan Palace (Echeveria 'Guanghan Gong'), really like a fairy

Splendens cristata

Leaf-cutting seedlings planted in the ground

The tenacious pot-protecting grass

Many people around me don't understand why I grow so many succulents. In their eyes, they're all the same variety. Actually, I don't know why either. I think I've probably been poisoned by succulents and can never quit. But I'm willing to be poisoned forever!

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