The Succulents and Pottery Compulsion

My daughter Noe got me interested in succulents in early 2016 and ever since we've been on a quest!!! Naturally with so many new plants around, we needed pots to put all of them into. The typical pots you can buy from the big box stores just don't have character that suits these incredibly interesting plants. So we've both been making our own pottery. And now we're branching out into other plants - Aeroids, Orchids and Citrus!!! Check out what our green thumbs have been doing!!!

Saturday, September 30, 2017

Grafting

Noe and I finally got the nerve up to make some grafts of the Gymnocalycium offshoots. After watching a few youtube videos, we felt pretty comfortable and started slicing and dicing.

Emerging Flower - Finally

When I first brought this cactus home (a Gymnocalycium, I think - from Lowes), it had these hot pink flower buds inset. I noticed one of them had FINALLY poked out after months of just sitting there -

Euphorbia esculenta in Flower

This one is popping!!! I had started to think it might be time to give this plant a big trim to accentuate the caudex. I guess I'll wait until this flowering is finished.

My Grand Uncle

Benito Vergara -

Friday, September 29, 2017

Inspecting for Bugs

When I check this plant out, I have to breakout the 1.50 reading glasses and the headlamp.

Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Prolific Portulaca

The first flower spike isn't even finished flowering and right behind it is not one but two new flower spikes!

Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Fred Update - September 26th

As the summer sun is moving further south now, I've taken the liberty to move Fred further up onto the more well lit parts of the bench.

Check the previous post on this plant to see the growth its put on.

New Monadenium Offshoots

Both of my Monadeniums are putting out offshoots.

Some people say these grow fast. I'm not one of those some people. These offshoots have taken quite some time to develop.

Flower Number 5

Tavaresia barklyi flower Number 5

Just opening up!

Adenium Flowers

A couple of my Adeniums are flowering.

Another Unidentified Cactus

I'm going to have to look around for this ID.

Looky Looky!!!!

One of the Pedilanthus plants is pushing out a new shoot!!!

Yeah I know botanists have recently put this in the Euphorbia genus - but instead on going through and editing the posts on this blog, I'm going to stick with the old name. I'm just glad this showing more growth!