New Succulent Variety, Updates & Growing Tips - Vlog #395 - Growing Succulents with Lizk.

Seven months ago I bought this plant called Echeveria rumba which is a hybrid of Echeveria topsy-turvy and Echeveria affinis also known as black knight. So black knight and a topsy-turvy is what you call a rumba. Now this rumba is different from this rumba. So which rumba or rumba do you like? I bought this rumba a few weeks ago and when I got it actually I was a little bit confused because I've had this Echeveria rumba here in my mind of what a rumba supposed to look like. But then again I saw this one and I thought it looks very similar to Echeveria dark Veda and of course my dark Veda looks nothing. Well it looks similar but it also looks different. So this is now my dark Veda crested and that one is the normal form. So you can see the coloration is very very so rumba on the left and dark Veda on the right. So it has the same flick because also dark Veda is also a hybrid of topsy-turvy or ronyonii really if I remember correctly. So but anyway it's a beautiful plant and I actually went to my local hardware store today and of course I saw another rumba there. I was almost tempted to buy it because I really really like the shape of this flickiness. I like things that flicks and mutates and monstrous and crested. So that's the reason why I have an affination for plants that looks like this. And of course the plant of the day or the buy of the day actually for me. So this is now weekend and of course this plant here is Euphobia millii. This one is called Lucky Lady crested and I have been after this plant for a while but I have never seen them even available online. You only have the standard form but never a crested form. So this one you can see at the back look how gorgeous the cresting is. Okay I'll just pull this one back here. Look at that. Can you see that? It's gorgeous cresting and I just absolutely love it. So this is not for the faint-hearted. So a lot of these Euphobias can actually be toxic to pets and also toxic to humans. So it has a sap. So if I pull one of the leaves which as I'm not going to do they normally have a milky sap that when it gets your hand and then you touch your eye you could go blind. I haven't tried it before so it's not guaranteed that you're going to go blind but I wouldn't go about trying that. Just take my word for it. It is apparently harmful and a lot of people are actually sensitive to it. So even if it touches your skin it might itch or burn basically. But to me I'm made of asbestos I think because it doesn't seem to affect me. But nevertheless I love love love my Euphobia Lucky Lady Milii which now I have to grow somewhere warm. But for now I have to keep it here to acclimate first. So this is sort of open but yet it's got covering so that way it's not getting direct sunlight so it doesn't burn. Now my latest acquisition as well. This one I bought this a few weeks ago. This is no name it just says Echeveria species if you can hang on where's the label up the top here. So no name but there's that yellowing on the tip there maybe a damage or something but I thought it might variegate and also the tip there is looking monstrous so there's a possibility that this could turn out to be actually a Madiba or Black Madiba. That's why I got it but then I haven't got a Black Madiba but it also looks like Best Baits if it variegates. So that's why I gave it a name Best Baits because my Best Baits died a long time ago. So this one hopefully can either turn into a Black Madiba or a Best Baits. Only time will tell. I have another plant here that I don't know what the identity but I look online it looks very similar to a Muesli. So you can see the spoon like shape. Look at that isn't it? It's just gorgeous so you can actually probably put water there and it will not tip out or eliminate or spill over. That's the word I'm looking for but I think it's a beautiful plant and I haven't got one that looks like this so I thought I might as well buy it and also this one is I am obsessing a plant called Wild Horse online that I saw and then this one looks very very wild because look at the shape of the leaves. That's like a Siamese Twin Leaf. Not only that also that one there and of course it looks like it's going to variegate and see the middle as well. There's some form of variegation so I don't have a Wild Horse so that's why I named this Wild Horse that way I don't get confused because if I don't give them a name chances are I will just neglect them and overlook them and forget about them and then of course they're gonna die. So that's why I thought Wild Horse at the moment is an appropriate name for it and hopefully it will go wild and color up like the variegated Wild Horse that you see on this insert photo here on the left hand side but anyway hopefully it is actually or or it will turn into a Wild Horse. Ramses IV. This is my hybrid that I grown a few years ago now. This is across between Egeveria Amestro which is just so gorgeous. Where are you Amestro? There you are. Beautiful. So that's the mummy and also Rahoya which I can't find anymore but somewhere oh there you go I think it sort of looks like similar to the Tequila Sunrise here. I don't know where my non-variegated Rahoya is but this is a variegated Rahoya. So being two Agavoides plant you would think that this Rahoya will have many faces which it had many many faces but now of course I have neglected them and I only have a few left. So this is my Ramses IV. I'm just looking at the back here what is that white thing showing on that back there I don't know what that is but anyway so it's still changing and then that one is sort of I don't know what it's doing there but it's small but needs to be clean and of course probably needs more watering and more soil and a bigger pot as well now this has a bigger pot or what's left of them which is these Ramses III Agavoides because they're both Agavoides the mother plants that is and now that one there is I don't know looking more like a Rahoya but I don't see any signs of being an Amestro and even that one there that's already changed into something else so maybe in the process of pollinating them something snuck in another bee carrying or maybe a bee carrying a pollen from another plant has snuck in has impregnated the seed pods turning this into different looks so maybe there's a milkman involved so anyway so Ramses IV, III and Ramses II has definitely now shown some promise here but then now this is actually looking different well it has colored up so this is Ramses II before and now Ramses II after so she has always been the most colorful one of the lot but now you can see the spiky pointy tips that is now showing on this Ramses and also the leaves has also gone slimmer so probably because it's been on a diet for a long time that's why it looks very different now to Ramses IV so the two of them now look they look similar in shape so Ramses IV here is also pointy on the tips but the tips is not red and then Ramses II is pointy and red tips but because this is grown out here in the sun and this one I just brought it out here in the sun and it used to grow in the shade so there you go so the difference of location again makes a difference between the two plants so look at that you would not believe that they both came from the same mother and father while I'm on the update here last autumn I think I have to check the date exactly when I done this arrangement here this is my Sedum green turtle eggs which has now colored up it's all growing nice orange on the tip there look how pretty that is and this one's all yellowing and lemon liming color and of course I am interested in the babies that I grew from them at the back here so you can see oh that one has lost the leaf but there's a little bump there and those ones as well they're all growing look little turtle eggs and even those are that one is on the plant and those two there as well oh look at that one look so it only took I don't know five months six months for those babies to grow but this thing now is looking very very pretty with my I forgot your name telefiastrum something sunrise oh my goodness my brain is not really anacamceros there you go telefiastrum sunrise welcome to my disaster zone so this area I haven't had the time or the energy to clean this up because I'm a very busy lady no my shoulder is playing up so I haven't I've been out of commission for the last couple of days but going through here I have discovered something wonderful this is the last two plant of my Echeveria coolview I went to a garden once or should I say pristine garden that belonged to this lady and anyway so this one now I'm harvesting because look at that beautiful and she had an Echeveria coolview that variegated it's planted on the ground and then I said how did you make it variegate and then she said or I thought it was a variegated plant to start with she said no it's not variegated it's just because it's been grown under the shade and so now it variegated so if you want an Echeveria coolview or if you have an Echeveria coolview I highly suggest that keeping the plant in a shaded area and bright no direct sunlight there is a bright area but no direct sunlight so even out in the open so like this one's here and this area here is covered by of course you can see I got shade cloth above and also I've got the plum tree that is flowering right now and also I've got this box here which is sort of protecting the coolview here so that's one way to variegate succulents so if any of you are like me who are obsessed with variegated plants then and also someone asked me before how do you make succulents variegate well you can make them variegate by not feeding them too much if you starve them no nutrients no fertilizer and keep them somewhere bright but sort of protected no direct sunlight that is then chances are the plant will variegate like this coolview now so I'm actually gonna bring this inside and repot it and of course am I gonna put this out in the open no I won't I will plant this somewhere where it's bright but no direct sunlight so that way it can continue to variegate and hopefully will produce more variegated coolview for me oh dear welcome to my grow lot this is warm it's hot actually and it's 26 degrees celsius in here isn't that just absolutely beautiful now what I've got here is I've got some plants of recent plant haul that I was keeping in here and I thought since it was still cold a few or a couple of weeks ago I thought I might as well put them here but I found out that some of the plants that I kept here are actually losing color so I thought I better bring them outside but in saying that I also have okay see the cubic frost crested this is part of my plant haul from a AH succulent that is and hang on I'll just step over here and this purple champagne here has lost its color so I'm not very happy with that now also the purple champagne here which is the monstrose one he still has still maintained his color but I would like to bring this outside because I think this is also gonna lose his color see look at that oh look how dull it is compared to how it was I remember it very very more warmer tones than what it is now so I'm gonna take this outside and I will find a spot and even this one this is from Let Love Grow My Amanda has lost its color as well so nice and white but I think it would look better if it's somewhere grown outdoors right now especially that now it is spring has sprung but the only good thing of having a grow tent and growing things under a grow light is that I planted some wing beans now they're already sprouted so maybe another two weeks I will grow them put them outdoors and see the fungus gnats on those sticky paper so that's all fungus gnats from the soil I don't even know where they're coming from because when I check the soil well I cook the soil and everything so I don't know where or what's happening with the fungus gnat situation they seem to be everywhere anywho oh this cute little thing by the way this is a little plant from West Rainbow that I found with my plant hole from Let Love Grow and now it's growing as well I think I better bring this outside as well but for now I'll leave it here because my hands is full and so let's go outside and check out the rest of the gang I should really be putting this plant somewhere here but anyway so this one came from the Liberia came from inside the grow tent as well so I just took it out yesterday or two days ago and look how pretty they look now here it would be only a couple of days and even that butterfly or purple butterfly it has actually colored up a little bit more so I think the edges has become more defined the coloration so it's sort of pinkish and I think that will look more purple or darker once it spends a little bit more time outdoors here but right now I got no room so what do I do I have to move things around and when you move things around okay that cotyledon goes dormant in summer the growing season is when the temperature is cool which is between autumn winter and spring and as spring warms up turns to summer that cotyledon will hang on I need to move that plant and it's a little bit heavy for me hang on I just do left hand hang on just a sec I'm here I need to move you I'm sorry oops oh I just hit the other pot and I'll move this one down here okay okay oh good now you poor thing what's your name Calisto I'm sorry Calisto you need to be propped up but for now you can stay there and then I'm gonna put my monstrose purple champagne over here that is so gorgeous so I still got enough room to put the other purple champagne here but I'm not gonna put them next to each other I think I think I'd better find a spot so that one can go here sort of propped up like that hang on I'll go get some proper so Calisto is now propped up and I've got enough room to put my amanda oh Mandy ah look how pretty that looks I've got red I've got sort of orangey I got yellow I can see I got white I got green variegated and a whole heap of other gorgeous was that torquata variegata so pretty anyway guys I think my battery's winking at me it might be a short video but I hope you still enjoy this anyway oh that one is sort of a little uh rotting leaves maybe more rotting leaves that indicates to me that needs to be watered I think that's dry yep that's dry so when they sort of thirst tea they also will rot and speaking of rot one of my past few months acquisition is a plant called sienna so this is symponium sienna that I bought in May so that's about I don't know six months ago so now is that six months ago never mind now this one is supposed to be frost hardy this is a cross between sempervivum and ionium but I find that the whole plant was really growing well before and then when I took it here I actually bought this in Victoria so when I brought it to Canberra it started rotting as you can see the leaves are just sort of falling off but hopefully it will recover in time for summer that will go dormant again so I don't know what's going to happen because they normally go symponium will go dormant in summer since ionium and sempervivum goes dormant in summer but it has so many leaves now I mean new plants that has grown here look at that so I am still hopeful that this plant will recover and grow but for now I am brokenhearted because all the leaves is just falling off see so hopefully we still have enough time or cool days for or during spring that this plant can actually recover and grow and hope it doesn't die on me so anyway guys if you have a symponium or have experience in growing symponium I would really appreciate it if you can leave a comment as to how you grow your symponium because this one this is my first symponium there's another symponium available right now actually at my local hardware store that I wanted to buy but I'm not too sure so I thought I'll leave it for a while and see how this plant goes first before I continue buying some more symponium that might have a chance of dying on me so I'll keep it here somewhere protected in my 50% UV shade cloth area and hope that it doesn't die anyway I already said goodbye but then I saw something interesting this PV and silk variegated a couple of weeks ago I chopped the head off so that is the body and the head is over here oh my goodness now this one now I can see I don't know I'm going to do a close-up so you can see those tiny growth there so it's promising looks like on the left as well looks like hang on it's gonna have a few babies that's gonna grow on it so I am quite excited and of course my supposedly mother plant that I already chop chop chop the whole lot of babies from that one of the biggest one is this one here now I just want to see if that little baby here I'm not supposed to do this but let's go check if it has rooted and have you rooted oh yes okay can you see the little hang on tiny roots over there so I think I hope you can see that so it's just starting to root up so that little red dot there so that's roots babies growing okay I'm putting you back I'm sorry now I just need to water this and then that way it can go in its own merry way and continue to grow oh yes this one is my pink witch that was part of my plant hold before and I don't know if you could remember I'll put a photo here side by side so that was the first pink witch crested that enticed me to buy this big pink witch crested but now you can see the two of them this one on the left has now colored up of course it was already actually colored up this one on the left but that one on the right was all green before and now look at it it's looking beautiful I didn't mean to buy this plant because it looks very similar to a lot of other succulents that I already have in my collection but then when I picked it up what did I see I don't know if you could tell there in the bottom see that little mutation there or mutated leaf so there's one face two face so I should say a two-faced leaf and also this one is called sia dadu so I will do do you and that's why I bought it because of that just that one leaf mutation prompted me to buy this but anyway I'm sure it is a beautiful plant and it's flowering right now and of course what do we do we have to remove the flower stalk oops there you go so it doesn't infect the other parts of the plant just in case it will have mealybug so this is sia dadu but anyway guys as I bid you adieu check out this peridot which is now nicely coloring up so I hope you enjoyed this video and I'll see you on the next video bye bye for now