After surviving a near-disaster, 2000 succulents prove that imperfection is also a kind of beauty

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Location: Kunming City, Yunnan Province

The Most Beautiful Expectation

 The Most Beautiful Expectation

Zhou Bichang 

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This summer my succulents really went through a lot of hardships. It is probably because I have been in this hobby for quite a while, so I sometimes get a bit slack with them. It could also really be that I have raised too many, plus my son Meatball Jun is at the age this year when even cats and dogs find him annoying. He wears me out so much that I really do not have enough energy to spare. So the time I spend on the terrace tending the succulents is quite little. A big pile of leaves dried up and I had no time to pick them off, lots of "mealybugs" bred, and then this summer the weather in Kunming was basically a repeated cycle of one moment a downpour, the next moment blazing sun. So there was also a lot more black rot than in previous years. But as long as they are alive, every pot still keeps a pretty good condition.

So I thought, let it rot if it rots, after all it is my own fault for not caring for them properly. Before I knew it, the Start of Autumn had arrived, and I was overjoyed. Who knew that after the Start of Autumn it was still the downpour-plus-blazing-sun mode, with absolutely no sign of letting up. What is even more exaggerated is that one day it actually hailed broad-bean-sized hailstones. The key point, the key point is that the hail only fell on that one small patch of my succulent terrace, fell hail, hail, hail, hail....

I feel so flustered, both angry and flustered. Mm! Angry-flustered!

Peach Eggs, Debbies and the like were completely pounded into bare stalks. Anything with fat leaves was badly hurt. On the first day when I went to look, I even thought some thin-leaved ones had dodged the hail's devastation. It turned out I was too optimistic; after about a week I found that every pot had scars, every pot was a panda face. ⊙?⊙!

I could not keep letting them leave things to fate just because this is a cheat-mode region. So I started replanning the terrace layout, using the cheapest and most convenient plan to solve the succulents' safety problem under extreme weather.

As a typical Aries, I do what I think of right away. I spent 2000 yuan on materials and took one week to build the racks and the shelter. A manual thumbs-up for myself.

Right now the succulents are still in their recovery period. Before, any pot I casually picked up was beautiful, but now, out of 2000 pots, I had a hard time finding these few dozen that can barely count as okay, to take some photos to encourage myself. And also to keep a record along the way. Let us see how beautiful they can become after a few months.

This pot of Agnes Rose nearly rotted in early summer, and all its leaves dropped off. I watered it at the roots with carbendazim and then moved it under the eaves. Before long it sprouted new growth. Now although it is green, its overall shape is quite good.

The leaf tips of Ice Age were also hit by hail. But its leaves are relatively hard, so it is okay

This should be Gray Rabbit Ear, and you actually cannot tell it was hit

Devil's Claw, actually it was hurt quite badly, and I pulled off a lot of its leaves. But maybe because the leaf tips are naturally darker, you cannot really tell

This Thin Makeup had its branch directly broken off by the hail, and I stuck it alone in a pot; today I found it has already grown roots

Spring Cute Cristata, you can still see the speckled scars on the leaves

This pot of Little Hejin is very old, and Little Hejin's leaves are also relatively firm, so only the leaf tips have fairly obvious scars

The marks of being pounded on this pot are quite obvious

Thin-Leaved Blue Bird, I personally really like this variety. When raised well it has a fairy-like feel. But its face was also pounded into a mess

This side of Lily Lily does not look obvious, but the other side's face is very speckled...

This Mexican Spirit Hidden is quite obvious

Thin Makeup, all had branches directly broken off. Because the leaves are relatively thin and small, there are no obvious scars

Female Beauty Moon is also obviously hurt

Korean version Cinderella is also a big speckled face, but I have already pulled off many of the injured leaves

River Dance is lucky its leaves are solid, but it was also pounded full of scars

This one whose name I forgot, the fallen wood, has obvious scars

Swan Lake is also a speckled face

Another Thin-Leaved Blue Bird, one head was nearly broken off. Because it is not completely broken, I just let it be...

This seems to be Hercules...

Originally quite a fairy-like one... what was it called? Instant amnesia ╯╰

Marcus Cristata...

This old-stem Onsno can also count as relatively lucky

Nine-Meter Light Cristata is also okay

By the way, Female Chick is quite good whether in condition or in hail resistance. Although it is a super common variety, I genuinely like them.

Blue Stone Lotus is also not bad, except quite a bit of its powdery coating came off

Is this Beauty or Cheese, these few pots are not bad

This pot performs the best

This pot of Onsno is actually quite pitiful, but luckily it grows fast. Those pounded-to-mush leaves were basically all pulled off

The Ice Plum series is also a little expert at resisting hail, almost nothing shows

What cristata was this again, probably it also dodged the disaster because of its smaller size

The Ji Lotus series also performs well, probably because the leaves tend to be smaller

Ice Jade is relatively pitiful, several pots were pounded to death. The rest are also no longer in condition...

This one too, I instantly cannot remember the name... Olivia?

This Brave Cristata was nearly pounded to death. At the time all the leaves were like pickles; being able to come back to life is a miracle

Echo's leaves are also on the smaller side and relatively firm, so it is okay

Jade Cup's face is speckled...

Pansy performs well

Peacock Cristata, a bit blurry...

Prism, placed under the large Aeonium, received the Aeonium's protection

Shortbread Duck is also fairly hail-resistant

And Daniel is also a little expert at resisting hail

Soft Seat is quite pitiful, this pot already counts as lucky and still had quite a few leaves pounded to mush

This Anna Rose was too beautiful before, and will need some time to recover

This pot of Little Anna is not bad

Sasha Cristata had one head pounded off, but it is not obvious

Sunset Glow also performs well

Paper Pinwheel

Pink Blue Bird really surprised me, it looks completely unhurt, and its color is getting redder and redder

Debbie Cristata is more hail-resistant than Debbie; the Debbies without cristata basically all became bare stalks, while the cristata ones are not obviously hurt. Could this be the power of unity?

Benba is also quite pitiful, this pot can barely be looked at

Cream Yellow Peach

Raindrop is also hail-resistant

Blue Surprise

Is this Morning Light or Morning Dew ╯╰

Orange Dream Dew I guess

Silk Veil

Lawrence

Little Blue Clothes

Nana Little Hook

Green Star Beauty

Yangjin

Moonlight Goddess

Lemon Prince

I had originally taken the miserable photos of the terrace being pounded, as well as pictures before the renovation and during the renovation. Then, last weekend when I went out to play, my phone fell into a pond, into the pond, the pond, the pond....

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