Yes, P afra (Jadelet) tolerates full sun better than the yellow tipped jade varieties like Hummel’s sunset or Hobbit (the mutant one) which will get sunburned tips if left in full sun at noon in Sydney 🪴
After learning about the dorstenia, I was thrilled to find one in a local specialty nursery in Portland, Oregon, USA. It's just a baby plant, smaller than my thumb, which still cost me $25! I'm so happy to have her now, sitting next to my baby euphorbia platyclada. Euphorbia is my favorite plant genus because of the wide variety, and they look like they came from another planet👽! Thank you for another interesting video🙂.
Love that baby dorstenia! I’ve found adromischus cooperi to be very easy to care for for a beginner. Shrivels right up when thirsty and also found at ikea 😁 Great video as always. Take care!
Love your videos. The info seems bang on, have def killed multiple lithops! Also my top suggestion for folks who kill plants: haworthia. Sun shade wet dry, my kind of plant. I’m adding euphorbia crown of thorns. Pretty common ya, but I got a giant red one and a miniature yellow one and neither have ever STOPPED flowering for several years. Nice!!
That Kedrostis is like my Boweia volubilis, a nice fat green bulb that sends up a ferny vine, tiny green flowers, then briefly rests, nice. Dorstenia is on my wishlist, now I think I’ll get some seed! Enjoyed this as usual…🌿🥸
Those dorstenias make me think of plumerias, given the leafing pattern and pedal scars. I wonder if that was parallel design in response to similar growing requirements. You've sold me on the lapidary plants. ^_^ Now I want one. And when it's big enough, I'll set it in some of the quartz that fluoresces under ultra-violet light, and test whether it takes on some of the same fluorescing minerals over the years it grows.
My favorite group are the Burseras of Mexico. Not only caudex plants with delicate pinnate foliage, but their dried sap makes a fragrant incense like their middle eastern relatives, frankincense and myrrh. Most popular are Bursera fagaroides and Bursera microphylla, but there are over a hundred other species.
My current record with Lithops is 1-1 with the loss being a plant I bought decades ago that quickly rotted away. My win is a plant I bought about a month ago which had two flowers on it so I couldn't resist. I haven't killed it yet but I just repotted it so we shall see.
Good luck! I’ve killed far more than I’ve kept alive over the years, so a 1-1 record is sensational. Somehow my first ever Lithops - the first succulent I ever grew from seed - is still kicking along. Maybe because it has some sort of sentimental value 😂
I have the haworthia you showed in video. The one thing that puzzles me is that it does not need to watered frequently,but when I do give mine water the plant think it is too much and turns up dead and a jelly heap😢 . This plant is my favourate but so not understand why they do that
@AridZine Which inorganic material can you suggest I use. I use regular potting soil because our garden soil suck a lot it is as if our garden soil is clay
You’re right, been researching my zebra Haworthia and this is reind (sp?) coac (sp?) is a tighter ball with shorter leaves. Check listing in World of Succulents succupedia 5:23
I am absolutely not sure! Went by the label and did a cursory check online to see if it looked right… but I will certainly defer to anyone with better knowledge of hard leaf Haworthias, which is definitely not an area of expertise for me!
@@AridZine If you don't find it in the next three weeks, when you do find it, you'll see that it has already sent out roots without being in contact with the soil.
Whawhahahaha how to propagate a succulent....... Just cut it and lose it (I did lose it for sure) and maybe find it again in few years. Can´t fault you, doesn´t get more beginner friendly.😉
You are really making me wanna start growing caudiciforms! The dorstenia is going on my wishlist.
I know caudiciforms aren’t everyone’s cup of tea… but there are some absolutely delightful plants among them.
Crassula jade or portucaria afra are definitely great succulent starters for beginners.
Yes, P afra (Jadelet) tolerates full sun better than the yellow tipped jade varieties like Hummel’s sunset or Hobbit (the mutant one) which will get sunburned tips if left in full sun at noon in Sydney 🪴
Absolutely - very hardy!
After learning about the dorstenia, I was thrilled to find one in a local specialty nursery in Portland, Oregon, USA.
It's just a baby plant, smaller than my thumb, which still cost me $25!
I'm so happy to have her now, sitting next to my baby euphorbia platyclada.
Euphorbia is my favorite plant genus because of the wide variety, and they look like they came from another planet👽!
Thank you for another interesting video🙂.
Ah wonderful! Enjoy the weirdness of your new little Dorstenia!
Nice video ! You have a wonderful diversity of plants. Thanks for sharing again 😎🤙🌴🌵🌱🪴
Thank you kindly
I remember back in the 1980’s seeing Lithops and Lapidaria’s growing in some spectacular Green Houses in San Diego California🌵
They’re all amazing plants, I’m sure that was spectacular.
Love that baby dorstenia!
I’ve found adromischus cooperi to be very easy to care for for a beginner. Shrivels right up when thirsty and also found at ikea 😁
Great video as always. Take care!
That’s a great tip. Haven’t really grown Adromischus but they do look fascinating.
I was gona say kalanchoe mother of millions or thousands are the true weeds of the succulent world😂 great video as always🎉
Maybe too easy to grow! 😂
Great video thank you
Glad you enjoyed it 🤘🤘
I started out growing orchids... about as far away from succulents and cacti as you can get. However I am finding your channel fascinating. Thank you!
Orchids is a whole other world. I have a couple, not in my greenhouse, but I don’t know the first thing about growing them
@@AridZinethey avoid me because words out I’m a murderer…☠️
😂😂
Love your videos. The info seems bang on, have def killed multiple lithops! Also my top suggestion for folks who kill plants: haworthia. Sun shade wet dry, my kind of plant.
I’m adding euphorbia crown of thorns. Pretty common ya, but I got a giant red one and a miniature yellow one and neither have ever STOPPED flowering for several years. Nice!!
Excellent suggestion - very true! Beautiful plants too.
That Kedrostis is like my Boweia volubilis, a nice fat green bulb that sends up a ferny vine, tiny green flowers, then briefly rests, nice. Dorstenia is on my wishlist, now I think I’ll get some seed! Enjoyed this as usual…🌿🥸
Bowiea… great plants! And Dorstenia are wonderful to grow from seed. Pump them full of fertiliser and they can grow quite rapidly.
Those dorstenias make me think of plumerias, given the leafing pattern and pedal scars. I wonder if that was parallel design in response to similar growing requirements.
You've sold me on the lapidary plants. ^_^ Now I want one. And when it's big enough, I'll set it in some of the quartz that fluoresces under ultra-violet light, and test whether it takes on some of the same fluorescing minerals over the years it grows.
Now that’d be an interesting experiment!
Make a vidio of how to make a bonsai succulant or adeniom
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Not an area of particular expertise - but I could do a pruning video!
100% - both great starter plants.
Great thank you and keep going this ausome videos
My favorite group are the Burseras of Mexico. Not only caudex plants with delicate pinnate foliage, but their dried sap makes a fragrant incense like their middle eastern relatives, frankincense and myrrh. Most popular are Bursera fagaroides and Bursera microphylla, but there are over a hundred other species.
I’ve actually got a pack of Bursera fagaroides seeds ready to sow… when I have a spare minute.
My current record with Lithops is 1-1 with the loss being a plant I bought decades ago that quickly rotted away. My win is a plant I bought about a month ago which had two flowers on it so I couldn't resist. I haven't killed it yet but I just repotted it so we shall see.
Good luck! I’ve killed far more than I’ve kept alive over the years, so a 1-1 record is sensational. Somehow my first ever Lithops - the first succulent I ever grew from seed - is still kicking along. Maybe because it has some sort of sentimental value 😂
I will go after some of those.
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I have the haworthia you showed in video. The one thing that puzzles me is that it does not need to watered frequently,but when I do give mine water the plant think it is too much and turns up dead and a jelly heap😢 . This plant is my favourate but so not understand why they do that
It could be your soil mix - I use at least 80% inorganic minerals in my Haworthia soil.
@AridZine Which inorganic material can you suggest I use. I use regular potting soil because our garden soil suck a lot it is as if our garden soil is clay
Pumice or lava rock, if you can get them are great soil additives
Michael do you know where I can get some Caudicey form plants from
If you’re located in Australia, I might be able to point you in the right direction. Not familiar with overseas vendors… unless you want to buy seeds?
You sure that's a Haworthia Coarctata? Seems more like a reinwardtii to me but I cant tell.
You’re right, been researching my zebra Haworthia and this is reind (sp?) coac (sp?) is a tighter ball with shorter leaves. Check listing in World of Succulents succupedia 5:23
I am absolutely not sure! Went by the label and did a cursory check online to see if it looked right… but I will certainly defer to anyone with better knowledge of hard leaf Haworthias, which is definitely not an area of expertise for me!
Good to know! I’ll relabel this plant. I just went by the seller’s tag.
I'm still laughing at the disapperd Crassula Ovata ahahahah you will have a new plant somewhere for sure in a few years ahahahahah
Still don’t know where it ended up 😂
@@AridZine. My comment just disappeared… anyway I just noticed my Jade looking ratty, I’m now encouraged to give it a haircut, thanks! 🌱🤗
@@AridZine If you don't find it in the next three weeks, when you do find it, you'll see that it has already sent out roots without being in contact with the soil.
definitely not a Tylecodon Singularis unless you want to feel deep pain when it sun burns slowly everyday and shrivels
Ohhh nooooo honestly don’t get me started on Tylecodon. They’re my succulent black spot. I’m terrible at growing them!
@@AridZine same hahahaha
Whawhahahaha how to propagate a succulent.......
Just cut it and lose it (I did lose it for sure) and maybe find it again in few years.
Can´t fault you, doesn´t get more beginner friendly.😉
Still don’t know where it ended up! 😂
Noticing my jade does look awful, I am encouraged to give it a haircut now, thank you! 🌱🤗
🤣🤣🤣 there it is -the lost comment mentioned earlier! 🌱