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| These four are still waiting patiently for new and bigger pots |
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| More Babies discovered in the underbrush on the table. Yay! |
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| Tiny sedum plants in back of other baby plants-make big to see |
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| Yet more babies but these I knew about |
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| Repotted and ready to go |
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| Curious mother dove wants to know what I, human and noisy, am doing in HER nesting area. She has claimed it for years now. |
What I'll do, once a baby is established, with it's own root system etc, is transfer it with some of it's mates into a larger pot to make a full plant. That frees pots for other plantlets.
My original donkey tail sedum, from which the tiniest new plants have come, used to hang in the shade from a nail. The hungry birds (mostly house and chipping sparrows and finch) came in and denuded the long, beautiful stems. I'm still dealing with that, though the sparrows have mostly gone away because my neighbor no longer has big aviaries. I'm not sorry to see most of the sparrows gone but I miss the chippies and the Finch.
What kind of soil do you use? Do you mix your own?
ReplyDeleteAre those bonsai pots?
It occurs to me that my succulent collection is starting to grow, of it's own volition. I had started a cactus collection long ago, but my first plant took to jumping off its perch and attacking people.
I can't believe how tiny those sedum are.
I'm going to try a few succulents for my patio - only a few because I am going to use a plant saucer as a display and it will have to live in the shed over our long grey winters. If this one lives through the winter all right I'll try more.
ReplyDeleteHi K! All the pots I use have drainage holes, because they are outside. One is a bonsai pot. The dark brown flat one.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like you had a Cholla, or "jumping cactus". They like to go on the attack. Such naughty things! We give them their distance when rock hounding out where they are.
Sedum babies are amazing but so are the ghost cactus. They are incredibly little. That is what is down there in the mixing bowl, but those are stems that got overgrown, not babies but they will be restarted in a pot with some of their brethren.
They over winter in a sunny spot if it's warm enough, above freezing that is. People in the UK have jade plants that spend their time in a sunny corner, and are pretty large! I saw one on someone's blog once.. thinking about where.. ??
ReplyDeleteThat reminds me I have to do something about my enormous Jade plant, the one on the hill, the major part of which fell over last winter. It needs some care. Probably will take a hoist, too. lol