Succulent Bumps - Vlog #393 - Growing Succulents With Lizk

This is Echeveria madiva. This plant has to be one of my favorite succulents because of the form. I just like the way it reaches out and trying to touch somebody. No, I just love the curliness, the shape, the flick. I love everything flicky. No, but I just love it. And a few years ago I had a Bumpy Madiva that I just love so much. I was obsessed with this plant that I wish to grow more Bumpy Madiva, but sadly it passed away. Recently, I have acquired a couple of Bumpy Madiva, but this Bumpy Madiva is still very, very young. So it only has a little pimple on the side there. I couldn't even call it a bump. But anyway, where's the other one here? That one has got more bumps. So it's going to take maybe another three years before these little ones would grow into that big Bumpy Madiva that I lost a few years ago. So in this video, we are going to talk about bumps. A couple of days ago, I went to my local hardware store and found this Bumpy succulent here, which I don't know the identity because of the way it's growing, it is a hybrid bump. It looks very similar to Echeveria raindrops. And these raindrops here is one of my oldest raindrops. And these raindrops here is one of my, well, actually, this is my youngest raindrops. And you can see that inside there, it's sort of losing its drops. There's still some drops there. But I think this one, the new leaves is forming. Looks like the drops might drop out. So anyway, Mary Matthews left a comment requesting, well, actually, it's a request, if I could show the difference between two Bumpy plants that you can see here. But before I go to that, I just want to show you my other bumps in my collection. So this is Emerald raindrops that I recently bought as well. And it's growing lots of baby Emerald raindrops, which is just so exciting for me. So this is Longissima bumps, which is actually now babies because the mother plant, I chopped off its head and now it's grown to babies. Very similar to the Emerald raindrops. I believe it's possibly the same plant as well, but it's just given different names by different growers. And I can see a little bit of mealybug on the side here. So I'm going to get my little barbecue stick and I'm just going to go here. I could spray it with methyl as well, which is what I'm going to do later on, but okay, just reach into there. And yep, that is still a living mealybug. So now I'm going to spray it. I'll just pick up the dry leaves because that goes to show that, oops, flicked it. Anyway, this needs to be watered. And when it's dry and thirsty, the plant suffers. And of course the mealybug comes because they say, wait a minute, this is screaming for help. And somehow the mealybug can sense it. So they go and attack the plant that is in need of watering. So water your succulents, please. That's just what I'm going to do later on after I make this video. So now squirt, squirt, squirt, cover the whole thing. Okay. This is another of my bumps called Rosima, but I believe this is also the same as Longissima bumps or Emerald Raindrops. This is a Polydonis Christmas bump. Looks nothing like the Rosima or the Longissima bumps or the Emerald Raindrops bump, but I'm sure there'll be other plants that will form little bumps like this of a Polydonis hybrid. There are also other bumpy plants like this Ice Angel, which is not really so obvious, but the plant is just sort of fat, basically the leaves, because this is the plant's way of storing water. So first they get edema like this Agavoides here. I forgot your name. Okay. Contopec yellow green. So this plant has experienced drought. And after experiencing drought, we had rain. During winter, it started taking in water. So it took too much water. That's why now it end up looking like this. Even though some people would say this is ugly, I think it's quite beautiful. But then again, it would have been better if it just continued to have edema on the surface, but it did not. It stopped there. So now it's come out of it and now it's growing healthy leaves on the top there. So this is basically how on some plants or some succulents, the bumps form either by too much water or taking in too much water, or also insects like mealybug, like the case of this Royal Flush. So I had two plants here before. And of course you can see the other one has gone to heaven, to succulent heaven and that's dry up because I forgot to water it. But then now I was able to revive this one. But then when after being revived, it started forming all these mutated shapes or unusual shapes or monstrose basically. And some of them will form eventually a bump like the Bill Gates here, which is just sort of a little funky, bumpy, mutated plant. Look at that. Isn't that gorgeous? So it looks like the ice angel, but this Bill Gates, I can't remember where my avocado cream is, but they do have similar look. So this is my avocado cream here, which has got some dirt, of course. And this avocado cream is growing lots of babies. Oh my goodness. See, but that needs to be broken off and replanted. So this avocado cream mutated and formed into Bill Gates. So this is my theory anyway. This is what I believe happened to Bill Gates. And then I'm going to compare this with this avocado cream here as well. So this is a stress avocado cream. So there you go. So from those leaves form this baby inflated is the term I'm looking for, inflated leaves. And so now it's set, grown into Bill Gates. Silly me. I was looking for avocado cream and it's sitting right next to it. There you go. So this is another avocado cream that I've got, but that one is just gorgeous there. See, there you go. So I don't even know where my plants are because my brain is all over the place, but never do mind. Let's go back to our bumpity ones. So this plant is called super milky. You might say that's not bumpy. Well, actually it is. It has a reverse bump. Instead of the bump on the surface or the front of the leaves or the top of the leaves, the bump is on the back. So you can see the back there. So that one leaf there has got the bumpy, see that bumpiness there. There you go. So these are now babies or leaves I've taken from this mother plant here and they are growing some funky, bumpy, or should I say the hunchback of Notre Dame is what's supposed to be the name of this plant because a big hump in the back or maybe camel. So maybe pink camel would be a good name for this. So these are now examples of a couple of humpty-do. There's actually a place in Australia called humpty-do. So this plant is called ice amber and you can see that this one doesn't have a hump, but it's very compact and beautiful sort of pastel color, isn't it? Gorgeous. It's a gorgeous, gorgeous plant. And I got a double head. On the other side, it's not as pink. It's more green, but nevertheless, big possibility that this ice amber, ice amber, I believe that this plant could easily mutate and turn into this dream heart bump. See, it's got the same shape of the leaves and same coloration, but look at the bumps of this dream heart. And actually I'm going to save the leaves in this one in the hope that I will get some seeds. Okay. That's what I'm going to do with this one. And I am just going to cross-pollinate it with itself so that I can have little bumps like this, or that's what I'm hoping actually. So I want to grow some more bumps from seed if it is possible. So maybe hopefully next year, I'll get to see some little baby bumps, baby bumps. This is my Beyonce rainbow that I chopped off a few days ago. It's still got a barbecue stick because it hasn't formed roots yet. So I'm waiting for it to grow some roots. But for the meantime, it can sit here and grow roots. And hopefully it doesn't revert back to non-variegated because this, when it goes non-variegated, will turn out to be looking like this. So this is my Beyonce rainbow that has reverted or variegation went away, but you can see that it still has the same look as the Beyonce, except as it matures, it starts growing back into its original non-variegated form, which is a heart's delight. So this wide leaf here in the bottom, so eventually this one's on top will get bigger and bigger and bigger and cover the whole surface of the leaves, turning it into heart's delight. So you can see this heart's delight now. So when the leaves are still young or new leaves form in the center there, they don't occupy the whole leaf. But as it grows older or matures, it starts invading all the surface of the leaves, turning it into this big bump. This is the plant's way of storing water. So that's the reason why they have the bump, so they can store water, thickening up the leaves. And the thicker the leaves, the more water it can store, the more it can survive spells of drought, especially since I haven't watered this for a while. And that's why even this is actually cuttings. I took the cuttings off my heart's delight. So now it's gone very, very pretty, and hopefully it will grow into a delightful heart's delight. Also forgot to show you this one. This is Obsidian, one of my latest bump plant haul or acquisition. So from my last plant haul. So these two have bumps and which I believe this is also this Obsidian. Looks very, very much like the Rosima, which has a wider leaf. So it probably has the same parentage as the Longissima bump or this Rosima bump. So maybe these three, that one, Longissima bumps are related or same plants, but it's just that when grown from seeds, they are going to look slightly different, which now comes to our topic for this video, which is the difference between these two bumpy plants. One on the left is called Echeveria Mexican Tears. Mexican Tears is growing flower stalks right now. So I'm tempted to not remove the flower stalk as well. So I can grow this from seeds and maybe hopefully grown from seeds, it will also maintain its bumps. So this is quite compact. So the leaf arrangement is very, very sort of close off. So maybe it became close off or compact as it matures. But I also have an immature plant, which is this Mexican Tears here. And you can see that between the two, this is, hang on, I'll just move this other one here. And you can tell from that one that is still a young plant. So the level of the pot are almost the same, but you can see that one is still a little baby. And the other one on the left is the mama. But this is not the mother plant. I'm just saying mama as in more mature than this one here. But I can tell that this one still maintain its compactness or close off, you know, the arrangement of the leaves and it's more compact. And you can see very, very, very much whether it's a young plant or an old plant, they actually sort of look the same. And the bumps in the bottom looks to me like it's getting bigger as well, just like the Heart's Delight as it matures. So it's becoming wider, covering the whole leaf. So you can see there compared to the top, the top is only smaller, much smaller. Now, Mexican Tears compared to Heart's Choice. How do you tell the difference? For one, Heart's Choice is tend to be grown with the bumps more defined. So that's one. But then, of course, as it matures, it does the same thing as the Beyonce Rainbow here that has reverted. And you can see as it turned into a Heart's Delight or the bump covers more of the surface of the leaves. And while they're still young, they're still small. And this one, you can see that also the leaves of the Heart's Choice is much pointier compared to the Mexican Tears, which is rounder. So you say Mexican Tears, rounder leaves. And the tip is not as pointy. So if I go like this, no spiky, spiky. Now, this one has more spikes. See, it's more like vampiric or Madiba-like, basically, like the pointy Madiba. And the arrangement of the leaves, this one I have to go on the other side because it was perfect about a week ago, but then it rotted the bottom. So I have to actually keep it away from out here and put it somewhere a little bit protected so it doesn't get rained on. And of course, half of the leaves is gone. The other half is still here, but you can see that the stack of the leaves, the way it grows compared to the Mexican, like a pagoda. And this one is sort of more loosely. So that's how you tell the difference. When this Heart's Choice is still small, it sort of looks like this Mexican Tears that I've got here. So this Mexican Tears, I got this at the same time as this other baby Mexican Tears there. But you can also tell that this is a more compact leaves compared to this one because this one here, this is a baby Heart's Choice. I'm getting confused now. Okay, so this Heart's Choice is still a baby and you can see how pointy it is. But this Mexican Tears is also having pointy leaves. So maybe this is already a cross between Mexican Tears and Heart's Choice. So baby Heart's Choice, baby Mexican Tears, mature Heart's Choice, and mature Mexican Tears. So now can you tell the difference? So pointy and loose is Heart's Choice. Rounded tips and more compact, pagoda-like is Mexican Tears. So anyway, guys, I think that's all I got for this video. I'm getting thirsty. I need a drink. So that's my succulent. So I better go ahead and give them a drink. And also I need to separate these babies, not separate the babies, but remove some of the leaves because this one here, this Emerald Rainbow, is continuously producing more babies again. But they need room to grow. So I best do that. And I'm going to bid you adieu, adieu, adieu, adieu, adieu again. And thanks for watching, guys. And I'm sure you would enjoy watching this beautiful baby. See, look how gorgeous that is. Oh, my goodness, Brenda, that's the original head. So I tried to keep it. Well, actually, some of it, some of it is already gone. But now I have to rearrange a lot of my plants here because I know, I know the birds agree with me. And this one too, my pirate's treasure needs cleaning up. And the center is becoming more variegated, which is just so gorgeous. But see, that looks like really bad central as well. So I got to bring this inside and clean it in the quiet of whatever quietness I'm doing it in. Anyway, guys, that's all I got for you. Okay, really, bye-bye. I'm getting distracted. I'm looking and looking. So I've been doing lots of repotting as well. And so now I'm going to have to do lots and lots of cleaning. But before I do that, not cleaning, watering, that is. I'm even forgetting what I'm doing. I have to remove this. There you go. That's one of my... Is that ester? Yeah, I think it's ester or moon godness. Never mind. Okay, bye-bye. Oh, yeah, I have to repot you, Tinkerbell. Sorry. Now I will repot you if I don't forget again.