Should I Water Succulents In Winter - Vlog #378 - Growing Succulents With Lizk

Welcome to my garden here in Canberra Australia where at the moment it is winter. For the last couple of months I have been away on a prospecting trip and I just came back a few days ago and of course it's only natural that since this area is undercover when I say undercover there's overhead covering but it's still out in the open where as you can see it is enjoying the beautiful sunny day today that is because overnight we had minus four yesterday it was minus four as well and minus 5.8 so that's almost minus six round it up to say minus six minus five and minus four so two months of no watering a lot of these succulents are really really dry I've already watered a couple of them like this chanel I think or a big bang or super bang bang a super super bang and so it's nice and plump and also this one this is yohua stone should I say joss wash stone probably that's what they're meant to name it but it's just Chinese maybe version so yohua I don't know what yohua means but you are the answer to my lonely prayer maybe and also this one this is maybach so that has been watered and you can see it's all dripping still but behind it I've got some so that one is producing some pups here and you can see from the top plant rosette here that is dry so that needs to be watered and I don't want to take it out and soak it so I'm just gonna water it by hand but the question is since we had three successive days of minus six five and four and also coming on to the next few days we're still going to have sub-zero temperature where we're going to have frost so the question is should I water them or not and the answer is I should because if I don't they are also going to slowly wither away and die then I have to wait until spring to water and I have to keep everything cross so this aeonium is growing at the moment well basically they grow when it's about 10 to 25 degrees celsius that is their growing temperature so aeonium doesn't grow by the season it grows by temperature if you live in an area where in summer you get say 25 degrees max then you can water this plant when it needs it so right now it needs it and also there's a lot of pups growing there and they're not going to grow unless they get watered also that one on the side there that is raindrops or rainbow echeverria which used to be such a beautiful plant I would like to get more plants out of that but that one actually is monocopic which means it flowered and it's about to die so I chop off the head and I'm just hoping now that the top of it will still continue to grow or those new pups but that's not going to happen unless it gets nutrients which is watering water the essence of life these are succulents and a lot of people have this misconception that succulents don't need water they do all plants need water to grow there's probably a couple of plants that doesn't need water just air those are the air plants but still they still need water because they do get moisture from the air they don't need soaking or a lot of water to survive but they still need water also this one this canary this is echeverria this canary is sort of more of growing when the temperature is actually sort of cooler so they don't like too much heat they go dormant as well but during autumn it starts to grow and this one has been growing beautifully but this when I left two months ago I found it hidden behind covered area so it was all green but then I thought I'm gonna give it a chance to color up so I placed it here and it has now colored up beautifully see come on skinnery come color me up you know the song skinny love something like that so when your plants need watering even this euphobia here which this is actually frost hardy so I can actually water that one and a lot more like the rasula here this one has been sitting inside or indoors I just actually taken this out and this one too that needs to be watered as well that's my mother plant and this is now the baby plant which I have grown inside just to see the difference of the coloration even in winter and of course speaking of color this mamillaria bocosana Fred look at you you're so beautiful this is this was my mother plant and that is my baby plant which is taken from this mummy plant here and now it has taken over growth wise the mummy plant this is become bigger than this one so maybe the mummy plant got stress from having to give birth to pups and that is why it's gone skinnier so this one can hang on I'm just feeling it and it's all soft that means it also needs water so we can water this because the sun is out it will give it time to dry up I love it when you don't water succulents for a long time because they get stressed like this and they grow so colorful look at that see this rasula isn't that beautiful and that is really really dry really really light so the soil you can see that it's dry but oh my goodness it is so gorgeous so as that one there look at that gorgeous sundae but if I don't water them they will die so I have to give them a good soaking so it's this one this is actually a good candidate for a bonsai so but so beautiful look at that nice colorful but we need to plump it up first these are echeveria blue curls that I propagated a couple of months ago they are nice and pink and colorful despite the name of blue curls and the reason why is because this has been kept dry for at least two months so if you can see the soil that is really really bone dry now compared to the mother plant which was nicely watered so this is the mother plant sort of more on the greener side compared to the one that hasn't been watered is much prettier as much as I'd like them to remain pretty I don't have a choice I have to water them or else they won't grow so right now they still have a chance of growing even though we're experiencing frost because they are in this protected area so I just need to soak them up drink baby drink so I'm just gonna water this whole pot or container or planta however which way you want to call it with so many gorgeous plants I'm gonna have a closer look or we're gonna have a closer look basically to see what this looks like oh see that echeveria low as well it's so pretty see those pink ones here gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous and Lola in the middle here is gorgeous as well they all look beautiful okay look how beautiful Lola is gorgeous showing all those pink edges now they're growing sort of pink because of the stress of no water and the low how low can you go I will show you a beautiful low later on but anyway this pink crystal as well is just looking so gorgeous it's yummylicious so as the rest of the babies that I propagated here like this one is I think this is canary as well how gorgeous they're all beautiful look how beautiful that echeveria low is so this one got hit by the frost the tips of it so that's why all those little damages because it was out in the open so I just put it in here a couple of days ago and still gorgeous color isn't it so if this is not hit by the frost it's even prettier can you see that so this is the importance of sorry I forgot now we're watering not watering this one because this because this one is already getting watered by the rain and also the dew from the frost or winter dew basically another beautiful echeveria low gorgeous this is just in a small pot I don't even want to take this out because it's already rooted into this pot here so I just need to remove some of the plants here which is the onslaught right now this is the monstrose onslaught I think what's left of it yes it is too and speaking of onslaught I can't help but gush over this echeveria onslaught here beautiful gorgeous look at the pink so this one doesn't need watering and as you can see there's a moss growing on the side here to indicate that this pot is actually saturated and it's very very heavy because it's got plenty of water so this is left out in the open and of course being out in the open every time we had frost they get hit by the frost and they blush and color up like a shy young lady this planter here definitely doesn't need watering because you can see all the moss growing around it it is beautiful I love it so most of the plants that are in here are either propagated from leaves or some cuttings that I've taken and sort of plonked it here and then now they're all growing so those vera variegated so one has sort of I think reverted to non-variegated but that one is still variegated and then this one is another I'm not sure I think this might be a leaf propagation of something I can't remember the name anymore or probably a tiny little plant that I took somewhere that's about to die and put it there and then now this is only a shallow pot and so it's able to drain the unnecessary water away even though it's still wet it's not sort of sitting in water so succulents can take a lot of water provided it is free draining so this is another way of having free draining soil by having a shallow planter and same as this one here this is all planted in coconut coir so coconut coir will tend to hold water or moisture a lot but if it's planted in a shallow pot you can see that the plant is sort of stressed and colorful and beautiful this is by the way Othonocarpensis but they look like grapes don't they they're just so gorgeous I love it I think it's about time that I repot this because it's still cold enough for them to be repotted also all the plants that I've got here are also propagations and they are just dry look at them what is your name I forgot now must be a label somewhere I can't remember you lost your label again so maybe blue surprise or blue peacock I'm not too sure but anywho look at the Sarabonii look at the difference of this Sarabonii grown under there compared to this Sarabonii my goodness look how beautiful that is of course that got hit by something but this one is also dry I can feel the lightness of the pot and if I squeeze it it might break the pot but oh it's just really compacted so I need to tease this and sort of cultivate it basically so that when I water this the water can pass through okay and help this plant to grow as well so those tips are indication that they've been dried for too long and of course the plant sort of just eats itself cannibalizes itself to survive and that's why the older leaves will have that and the newer leaves you can see in the center they are still nice and plump and sort of perfecto anyway guys that's all I've got for this video I have plenty of watering to do and checking up and attending to and next video hopefully I can do some cleaning video where can we can do a little bit of storytelling time so anyway thank you so much for watching guys and hope I'll catch you on the next video