The Garden of Eden

[jerrytheplater]

Hey Eden

I use 50/50 Coir/pumice for my mesembs and some of my cacti. Perlite works too. This mix works well. The good thing with coir is that it will wet easily after drying out. Peat moss is very difficult to wet after it has dried out. It doesn't have any nutritive value, so you have to feed your plants. I like the pumice because it does not float out of the mix like perlite does.

I hope you let your plants rest a few days after taking them out of the pots and removing soil from them. The roots you damaged need to callous over before placing them in their new pot. You stand a really good chance of rotting all of your succulents/cacti if you neglect this step.

If you have just re-potted and didn't let them callous, I would take them all out of their pots now and let them dry in the air for at least 4 days before repotting.

[jerrytheplater]

Originally Posted by legomaniac89

Hey Eden, you may want to be careful having those Lithops and Pleiospilos in that soil mix. They could be overwatered very easily with that much peat in the soil.

Times 2 over and over. Your pot is way over sized for your plants. They will rot unless you are very careful with them. Plastic pots slow down the drying of the mix. This can be good or bad. Mesembs need to dry out between waterings. And they need to dry out fast.

[Eden Marel]

Ok tadah! I downgraded from 4.5in plastic pot to 3in clay pot!

[Eden Marel]

I guess a ladybug could not help resist...

[Digsy]

Love those Mesembs! They're next on my shopping list to add to my small succulent collection.

[Eden Marel]

Hehe, I saw some other ones today. But... I had to hold back. I don't want to spend anymore of my living money and I don't got room. I do have a south facing window, but there is a big tree right in front of it, so that doesn't help.

Must. resist. urge.

[Eden Marel]

[jmowbray]

Originally Posted by Eden Marel

Now that's the dew I love to see. I have to get outside and take some pictures of my plants.

[Eden Marel]

Yep I love the look of this dew too... makes me wanna touch it and stare at it all day long!

[Eden Marel]

Well some of my leaves looked kinda droopy/flimsy and/or shriveled up, so I took that as a message that they would like some water. I haven't watered them since I repotted them, so I watered the big pot with the multiple succulents throughly, and gave the mimicry a light helping of water. I think the Lithops and the Gibbaem are dormant so I didn't give it much.

[Eden Marel]

Originally Posted by legomaniac89

Nice looking stuff Eden. Looks like that Pleiospilos nelii (the Split-Rock Plant) has a flower bud on it. Give it good light and you'll see this within a couple days

Well, mine finally bloomed today though mine doesn't look as petal-ly.

[jerrytheplater]

Nice photo's. It's great when your plants flower. Makes it worth it even more.

[Eden Marel]

Originally Posted by jerrytheplater

Nice photo's. It's great when your plants flower. Makes it worth it even more.

Yup, now I am awaiting for the bud on my Anacampseros lubersii to become a pretty flower!









If I attach this Aloe to the end of the stick and whack someone with it...

[Eden Marel]

My newest additions (front left working counter clockwise). The last three Echeverias were on clearance for $0.75 cuz they didn't look too good I guess:

Echeveria 'Perle von Nurnberg'
Echeveria gibbiflora 'Metallica' x E. potosina hybrid

Sempervivum 'Hens and Chicks'
Sempervivum spp.

Echeveria multicaulis
Echeveria multicaulis

Echeveria 'Haageana' "Green Goddess"
Echeveria agavoides x E. harmsii hybrid

Echeveria 'Frosty'
Echeveria pulvinata 'Frosty'

[jmowbray]

You totally paid for hens and chicks, I could have sent you tons!!!