Hey all people! I hope this publish finds you properly. Last week was positively a scorching one starting out at 97° F for a number of days then merely 91-93 for the remainder of the week. A variety of ranges doesn’t make so much distinction nonetheless this can be very exhausting to want to go exterior until after 6 PM. The heat and humidity seem so draining and by no means very motivational. A variety of cases I walked to the shed after which went once more to the house. The crabgrass has taken over the yard nonetheless who needs to mow? I didn’t get refrigerant added to the AC as soon as extra because of I get alongside OK with the ceiling followers. Typically it is cooler exterior than it is within the residence, though.

I have been engaged on this publish since I accomplished the ultimate one and there could also be nonetheless one more in regards to the crops on the doorway porch. I was going to put the rest on this publish nonetheless which can take one different week to finish. I haven’t been engaged on the publish as so much this week because of I seem to have gotten caught re-watching Warehouse 13 as I am consuming dinner. One episode led to a distinct though I watched them sooner than. Now, it seems what I am watching I didn’t see sooner than. Hmmm…

Anyway, as sooner than, plenty of the images on this publish have been taken on August 17. The Huernia schneideriana images have been taken on the 18th because of I ran out of time on the seventeenth. The ultimate {photograph} was taken on the twenty eighth after I whacked the taller Kalanchoe marmorata in half. As sooner than, the plant’s names are clickable and might take you to their very personal internet web page.

x Gasteraloe ‘Transfer’ at 5″ tall x 9 3/4″ huge on 8-17-21, #826-23.

The x Gasteria ‘Transfer’ has accomplished very properly over the summer time season though we had a slight spherical of mealybugs late remaining winter. The mealybugs didn’t truly impact this plant, they’ve been merely on it. It was sprayed a few cases, given a bathe, then monitored. It, along with a few completely different crops, was on an isolation desk the ultimate half of the winter. The weird issue was that this plant turned orange nonetheless its shade obtained right here once more after I moved the crops once more exterior for the summer time season. THANK GOODNESS!

The x Gasteraloe ‘Transfer’ is an outstanding plant and one in all my favorites. I truly like its darkish shade and actually powerful leaves. I’ve had no points with it for in all probability probably the most half and it’d make an unbelievable plant for a beginner. I launched it residence on October 17 in 2017 and it now measures 5″ tall x 9 3/4″ huge.

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Gasteria ‘Little Warty’ at 6″ tall x 5 3/4″ huge on 8-17-21, #826-24.

AHHH, YES! The Gasteria ‘Little Warty’ continues to do properly and has truly fascinated me. I launched this plant residence from Wildwood Greenhouse on May 8 in 2019 when it was only2″ tall x 2 13/16 huge. It has grown to 6″ tall x 53/4″ huge. Gasteria ‘Little Warty’ is a cross between Gasteriabatesiana x Gasteria ‘Earlier Man Silver’ from Australian hybridizer David Cumming. Its leaves actually really feel like VERY worn-out coarse sandpaper and are a combination of darkish and lightweight inexperienced. It is AWESOME! In the event you occur to love Gasteria, you’d love this plant.

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Gasteria sp./hybrid ? at 5 1/2″ tall on 5-17-21.

The Gasteria sp./hybrid ? is fixed to do very properly. The most important plant was 6″ tall after I measured it on August 17. It is nonetheless 6 3/4″ huge and there have been 9 offsets throughout the pot. It’s a GREAT plant that wasn’t bothered by mealybugs at throughout the winter. Its leaves are far too exhausting.

I launched this plant residence from Wal-Mart, unlabeled, in March 2018, when it was merely 2 3/4″ tall. It nonetheless hasn’t flowered so I am no nearer to discovering out whether or not or not it is a species or hybrid. It is attainable a hybrid involving Gasteria obliqua (syn. G. bicolor) or its cultivars. Presumably with somewhat bit G. pillansii thrown in… An educated (one among many world’s foremost hybridizers) suggested me, “I don’t see it as a species nonetheless it does look somewhat bit bicolorish. (I assume by saying “bicolorish” he meant Gasteria bicolor, which is a synonym of G. obliqua). We found pillansii throughout the wild with this milky leaf shade. I’d advocate it is a hybrid nonetheless truly, with out a flower, it is powerful to seek out out provenance and even slim it down. Many growers promote every species and hybrids. It very would possibly properly be from our nursery as we offer crops for Wal-Mart and HD and Lowe’s.”

I suppose it truly doesn’t matter what it is, parentage-wise, nonetheless it may be good to know. It seems such an unbelievable plant deserves a larger title than ‘?’. All I truly know is that it is a neat plant with very exhausting, clear leaves whose edges actually really feel like a closed zipper.

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x Graptosedum ‘California Sunset’ on 8-17-21.

Properly, what can I say? The xGraptosedum ‘California Sunset’ is definitely doing properly. An ideal good buddy and fellow plant collector from Mississippi, Walley Morse, ship me quite a lot of cuttings in 2019, along with this x Graptosedum cultivar. Properly, he didn’t say what it was nonetheless I put images on a Fb group and x Graptosedum ‘California Sunset’ was the suggestion. I checked out images on-line and decided that’s what I’d assume it was. There are a variety of x Graptosedum cultivars… It should be in further photo voltaic than it is getting on the doorway porch for its shade to face out. Maybe in further photo voltaic it wouldn’t get so “leggy” each. I am on a regular basis significantly reluctant to do that for some trigger. My intention “was” to take cuttings and put a pot with a few in it on the once more porch. Properly, I can nonetheless do that…

I don’t have an internet web page for this plant…

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Haworthiopsis attenuata ‘Super White’ at 3 3/4″ tall x 5 1/2″ huge on 8-17-21, #826-27.

The Haworthiopsis attenuata ‘Super White’ (Zebra Plant) continues to be alive and properly. It is one in all three crops from Succulent Market which were hiding in my mattress room over the winter. The other two crops from them bit the mud due to the little critters. This Haworthiopsis is one in all 19 species of Haworthia which were transferred to the newly formed Haworthiopsis genus in 2013. The species is usually confused with Haworthiopsis fasciata, nonetheless that species lacks tubercles on the upper ground of its leaves. Cultivars of H. attenuata are additional obtainable. A variety of on-line sources have this species listed as H. fasciata as a substitute of H. attenuata because of their sources have them incorrectly labeled… Oh, properly. What can I say. I am only a bit blogger and I form of favor it that method. 🙂

I had not grown any Haworthia species since 2009 (which I merely killed being a newbie on the time). When Nico Britsch of Succulent Market provided me a few crops if I mentioned his on-line retailer, I chosen ‘Super White’ to offer it a shot. This cultivar was developed by his grandfather to be additional “white” and is claimed to tolerate lower mild ranges. Since remaining August when it arrived with 5 completely different crops, it has accomplished very properly and hasn’t had a single concern. It has grown to a few 3/4″ tall, which is an increase of 1/4″, and continues to be 5 1/2″ huge. The white tubercles are positively an unbelievable attribute of the species. They appear like thick paint globbed on the inexperienced leaves. It has been powerful for me to get truly good close-ups…

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Haworthiopsis limifolia (Fairy Washboard) at 4 1/2″ tall x 5 3/4″ huge on 8-17-21, #826-28.

I’m uncertain what variety of cases I’ve used the phrase AWESOME, nonetheless this Haworthiopsis limifolia (Fairy Washboard) is AWESOME! Moreover it’s generally called the File-Leaved Haworthia and Fairies Washboard. It measured 2 3/8″ tall x 3″ huge after I launched it residence from Wildwood Greenhouse in 2019 and the clump has now grown to 4 1/4″ tall x 5 3/4″ huge. It’s possible you’ll’t measure solely a single plant when a species is a clumper. 🙂

I truly like this plant’s hard-as-a-rock shiny darkish inexperienced leaves and raised tubercles. The tubercles are moreover inexperienced and the shininess of the plant makes them appear significantly a lighter shade.

I really feel it is best to keep up the offsets with the dad or mum plant when repotting smaller “Aloe-types”. They merely do considerably higher personally. I’ve had small offsets of some of them fall off so I put them of their very personal pots they often develop VERY, VERY slowly and don’t do properly. It is best to be careful and depart the offsets throughout the pot (on the very least until they get fairly huge) They’re “clumpers” so I assume they like a close-knit family.

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Huernia schneideriana (Crimson Dragon Flower) on 8-18-21, #827-18.

The Huernia schneideriana (Crimson Dragon) continues to do properly and has been blooming all summer time season. It is carefree and comfy and easily retains rising and blooming…

Huernia schneideriana (Crimson Dragon ) flowers on 8-18-21, #327-19.

I re-potted it in 2018 and it nonetheless seems OK. It will need a good larger pot subsequent 12 months and new potting soil is on a regular basis appreciated. It isn’t easy to re-pot…

This Tanzanian native has among the many smallest and least vibrant flowers of the species throughout the genus. I am utterly not complaining because of that’s how I made the right ID as quickly because it flowered. I really feel they’re good crops and if I had the funds I’d buy additional species… I’d moreover buy species of the alternative genera of Carrion Vegetation which is what Huernia are. Although their flowers have an odor solely appreciated by positive pollinating bugs, I’ve in no way noticed any scent the least bit. I’ve even taken whiff and smelled nothing… The Stapelia gigantea, then once more, is probably a particular story…

One is probably tempted to mistake this plant for a hernia, nonetheless it is pronounced hew-ERN-ee-uh… Properly, I am sure most people wouldn’t pronounce it improper, nonetheless I have a tendency to call it her-NEE-uh…

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Kalanchoe beharensis ‘Fang’ (Stalactite Plant) at 6″ tall on 8-17-21, #826-30.

The Kalanchoe beharensis ‘Fang’ (Stalactite Plant) has grown 3/4″ since I took its remaining {photograph} on July 21. Now it measures 6″ tall. ‘Fang” grows in one other method than the “completely different” Kalanchoe beharensis and isn’t so stiff. It’s somewhat attention-grabbing with its tubercles on the undersides of its leaves.

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Kalanchoe beharensis (Velvet Elephant Ear) at 5 1/2″ tall on 8-17-21, #826-31.

The Kalanchoe beharensis (Velvet Elephant Ear, Maltese Cross) is such a neat plant. It was 4″ tall on July 21 now it is 5 1/2″… It grew 1 1/2″! I truly like this native of Madagascar… My due to Sandy Fitzgerald for sending it!

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Kalanchoe x laetivirens (Mother of Lots of) at 18″ and 15″ tall on 8-17-21.

I’ve said it sooner than nonetheless I am going to say it as soon as extra… A well-grown Kalanchoe x laetivirens (Mother of Lots of) is an AWESOME plant. I launched my first plant residence from Wagler’s in 2014 and it did good. Then, after giving most of my crops up in 2014, I launched residence the second in 2015. It did good until it started rising weird. By 2017, it was a disaster… The first stem died nonetheless a few of the plantlets took off like mad. One among them grew considerably higher than the others and grew into a strong plant. As quickly because it grew taller, I scale back the stem (probably half) and re-rooted it. It was like, “Ahhhh… That’s the best way by which you do it.” 🙂 I had accomplished that sooner than with completely different crops nonetheless not the Kalanchoe. After I scale back the stem and caught it throughout the pot, it continued rising like nothing had occurred. Then the plant bloomed and produced these two offsets. Being monocarpic, the first plant died.

You’ll be able to start crops from the plantlets, nonetheless the offsets develop considerably higher and faster. “Often” they don’t produce offsets until after they flower which might take YEARS. It’d take A LONG TIME to get them to look good from the plantlets and you may merely want to throw them out the door. As quickly as plant grows “so” tall, slicing the stems in half (sort of) is one factor you would possibly must do. As quickly as they get taller and the lower leaves have fallen off, the crops look weird, they may start rising weirder, and the pot turns into top-heavy. The one issue holding it up now’s the bricks throughout the pot. The plantlets can positively be a ache throughout the neck and might fall off and attempt to develop in any shut by pot. I often take away the plantlets often to eliminate that draw back. They merely develop additional…

In some unspecified time in the future “rapidly” I am going to put all 4 crops of their very personal pots and on the very least the taller one must be scale back in half. Likely, there shall be a publish about it.

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Kalanchoe luciae (Paddle Plant) on 8-17-21, #826-32.

The Kalanchoe luciae (Paddle Plant) continues to do pretty properly on the doorway porch. After I wrote a earlier publish in July, there have been 5 pots with a whole of 16 crops (along with offsets). To say they’ve grown over the summer time season might be an understatement. I do not know what they’ll appear to be after I select their pots as a lot as ship them inside for the winter. They really favor to sprawl to offer the offsets an opportunity to develop. 🙂

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Kalanchoe marmorata (Penwiper Plant), the smaller one, on 8-17-21, #836-33.

You perceive, usually we try crops that merely have factors. Footage of Kalanchoe marmorata (Penwiper Plant) look good so after I seen a member on a Fb group selling them in 2018 I wanted to have one. In any case, it is a Kalanchoe they often do pretty properly. It appeared good when it arrived in April nonetheless went downhill fairly quickly. Come to think about it, I moreover bought a Sedum spathulifolium subsp. pruinosum ‘Cape Blanco’ from the an identical member and it did the an identical issue and finally bit the mud. It was in April so they may have gotten too chilly all through supply. GEEZ! ANYWAY, this Kalanchoe didn’t die, and hasn’t however, nonetheless it has been a troublesome species for me and used to drive me batty. It gew and offset then I had two of them to handle. They develop a few leaves and the lower ones fall off after which they offer the impression of being weird. I scale back their stems in half as wished and regrow them. They appear like they is probably doing larger for a while then they offer the impression of being weird as soon as extra. I am not an individual who likes drama, so I suggested it as long as it lived I’d protect attempting to find out it out. It has been three years and I nonetheless haven’t figured it out…

Kalanchoe marmorata (Penwiper Plant), the taller plant, on 8-28-21, #830-1.

Often the taller plant, which is the distinctive plant (I really feel) appears to be among the best whereas the offset struggles. This summer time season, it was the reverse. The smaller one appears to be larger whereas the taller one appeared plain weird. It grew to 10″ tall and easily had a few smaller leaves on the best… 7″ of stem between the soil and reduce leaves! SO, on the twenty eighth I scale back the stem in half. As quickly because the stem scabs over I am going to stick it in a pot as a lot as its lower leaves. The smaller one is now 5 1/2″ tall…

OH… The Kalanchoe orgyalis (Copper Spoons) grew so tall I lastly took cuttings. I didn’t throw away the stem which continues to be alive and has sprouted a model new division. Out of 4 cuttings, two survived and have taken root. On the very least they seem company of their pots. A sort of cuttings had no situation, nonetheless the stem of the alternative one rotted at first. I wanted to cut back it off as soon as extra and it lastly rooted. They have been on the once more porch in FULL photo voltaic over the summer time season which was moreover an experiment… They’re going to be on a future publish since they’re on the once more porch.

I am going to shut this publish and switch on to half 3 of the crops on the doorway porch.

Until subsequent time, be safe, preserve constructive, be grateful, and get dirty within the occasion you possibly can.