Cold Weather Make Succulent Color | Vlog #329

Good afternoon my lovelies. It's a beautiful windy day again here in Canberra, Australia. I'm just amazed to see this beautiful Sedeveria latitia. Look at all of them. They have been spared by the frost because I kept them here, but look how gorgeous that is. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful color. So many deaths from the frost, but now this latitia has brought me back to life. Life! Life! Ionian black swan. This thing has now survived. Look at the color. Is that beautiful? Might not be as pretty as my Ionian pinkwich, but this one deserves a place on my table basically. So also that garnet there looks just looking lovely, but these ones now I think they are due for a head chop. So this one, let me see at the back, that has endured the frost. You can see that, but now I'm just gonna chop this off. I'm gonna be terrible mother. I'm gonna chop you off. There you go. Oops! Gone. Off with its head. So I'm leaving a couple of leaves behind. So hopefully that will grow there, but I really need to do that because that's the only black swan I've got. And now this black swan, I'm gonna let this dry up a little bit, maybe pull off a couple of the leaves in the back, but I'm sure that will grow some roots and also the leaves waste not want not. Who knows? It might even grow some babies on in there. So now I'm gonna let you dry up and in a couple of days I'm gonna plant you up. This morning glory is not looking glorious. So there's a lot of dry leaves in the back. So I'm just gonna pick this up. Hang on. I need a container. See? So I can remove the leaves, clean them all up, and at least make them look a little bit decent because they are looking devastating right now. But anyway, so I'm gonna continue with that one later on. But you can see what I'm doing, just cleaning up. Oh, it's terrible. Terrible. So we won't be having frost anymore. I mean, I'm hoping we don't get the drastic heavy frost. Minus one, minus two, minus four is okay, but that's the forecast for the next couple of weeks. So hopefully this one will survive. And at the moment, I just had some lunch. So I am feeling a little bit tired. I don't know if it's just me. After eating, I'm like a little pig. I want to sleep. And this beautiful Doris Taylor here, I have been looking at her and she has endured the frost as well. But she also needs a good cleanup. So this is one of those hairy echeverias that is just so gorgeous. So this is one of my oldest plants because I got these around 20, a long time ago. So this is probably eight years old. So my original mother plant has sort of gone leggy and then I chop it off. And then now I planted it in this little small pot and then the leggy part or the other half of its body is somewhere. I don't even know if it's grown some pups, but this one has endured being in here. So I just noticed it today. And look at those hairy, fluffy. So it has its own cardigan to keep it warm from the winter frost. We've had some rain last night, but this greenhouse here, it did not get wet because it's all covered up. And of course, my babies, chubby, chubby babies that I had growing here for about a bit over a month. And as you can see, the soil has dried up. So I want to water it. Give it some loving. Lots and lots of loving. Just need water so they will continue to grow. And I'm all choked up. Hang on. Okay. So that's enough. And look at you, baby. So pretty. Oh my goodness. They have definitely grown. Might not seem that much, but maybe give it another six weeks and maybe that will fill up this whole pot. This is another mini greenhouse that needed to be watered because I haven't watered them for a long time. Very, very long time. So we'll open this up and I just want to feel, ooh, nice and warm. Just like the doctor's order. Or okay. Should I say doctor's orders? Nevermind. Obviously. Now this black swan now, I am going to put this in a pot here, which I have to put a label first or else I'm going to forget. And also a lot of the plants that are here are frost sensitive, but they have survived. Also this one, I think this is Mardi Gras. I need to clean this up as well. So I'll just pull off some of the dry leaves. And of course, maybe I need to chop, chop, chop. Oh, look at this one now. Hang on. This is interesting. You see the devastation. Got hit by the frost, but new babies popping out or coming out on top of that. So which is really good. So maybe if I pinch, I think I'm going to pinch. Which one do I pinch? I'm going to encourage them to grow. So this one's facing me. So I think I'm just going to take this off. There you go. Don't be afraid to gouge out your Ionium. So this is Ionium Fiesta. Okay, baby, that's enough. Maybe a bit more. I'll put the leaves there as well. See if they're going to grow. But if it doesn't, it doesn't really matter. Okay. While I have the watering can here, I might as well water these babies up because they are quite thirsty. So different succulents that are quite tender from the frost. We are still going to get some frost because it's not the end of winter. We still have another month. June, July, August is winter here in Australia. So it's only almost the last week of July. So basically, I'm tipping this out and watering them. And this Trasula Isabella, I love that one because one of my daughter's name is Isabelle. So I always wanted to not kill that plant. Look, it's beautiful, beautiful. It's variegated. And of course, what do you know? The frost always gets to it. So this year, I'm glad that that thing, I only bought that a couple of months ago. In autumn, that is. And of course, I make sure to not let it suffer. Okay. So what else can I water? So I'm going to go through that later on. So that way, I'm not wasting your precious time watching me water these beautiful babies that are protected in here. I've been away for the weekend. And of course, I went down somewhere where there's a bunning store. And of course, what do I find? Two champagne, purple champagne, just sitting there. There's actually a couple more, but I thought I'd just get two. And they were really cheap. They were like $13, $12.98 from my local Bunnings hardware store. And right now, they're going to stay here. They are quite frost-hardy, so they will survive, hopefully. In past years, I've always seemed to manage to kill my champagne, except one that I planted in a terracotta pot that actually survived a long, long time until I decided to move it. And of course, something happens when you move things, they die. And this one, I forgot about this. So this is, I think... What are you? You're not... Oh, Alice Evans. This is not very, very frost-hardy at all. So I might as well put this here. You can go there. And you can sit pretty in there. Hello, baby Romeo. You are now picking out. So this one too, I only got this a few weeks ago as well. And yes, there's another baby in there, but the main baby has already popped out. So this needs to be... See, can you see on the side there? That's still going to come out. So I'm so happy with that one. Anywho, I'll move you around, back to your position. And of course, this was or is my latest plant haul, mostly variegated and cheap from Red Hill Garden. And of course, I put them out here and I haven't really looked after them. I just plant them here and they seem to be doing really, really, really well. And of course, this one. When are you going to grow? I think minima is quite a slow-growing plant. Even though it's beautiful, I am in two minds whether I should really grow them or not, because they're just so slow. So minima has always been slow with me. So maybe I need to put it in a much healthier soil. So this is like an advanced soil mix that I'm using. And maybe it doesn't like it that much. So hopefully I get to change the... Well, when winter's over, I will be doing a lot of soil change over in spring. And this one, oh, I just want to show you this one. This is Macintosh. Macintosh. There you go. Echeveria Macintosh. I bought it as a cluster. And look how beautiful the color is. Gorgeous. Funny enough, we had a friend come over here, which she's not into growing succulents, and she saw this plant and she said, oh, your plant's dying. So I said, no, what's all those marks? And I said, oh, it's just the natural way of growing the succulent. She thought that those red spots are scars or something like that. That was the same with me when I first saw an Echeveria Riga. The Echeveria Riga I saw had all the blotchiness on it. And then so I thought, now I think that's deceased, so I'm not touching it. So I didn't buy it. And then I spoke to the professional grower and she said, yeah, that's how Riga grows into those spotted, spotted like freckles, basically. I've got this Echeveria here that is growing, cascading. And I lost the label. OK, so look at this. And I think in the bottom there's some broken off, I think. Oh, look at that poor thing. So I think I need to stick this into the soil here that I prepared earlier. And look at that. Look at the way it's just cascading on the side. I think it's quite beautiful. So maybe I need to put it somewhere sort of raised up and hopefully, look, it's breaking off, actually. So there you go. It can't handle its head. So maybe I need to. Oops, I just broke it. So maybe I can break that one off and then I'll just put you here and hopefully you will take root, crawl into the soil and take hold of the soil. Thornacopansis is looking lovely. Look at this color. Oh, my goodness. I wish all of you would color up like that. Beautiful. So you kind of look like an opal. So anyway, this one now, while they're still growing, look, a nice full head. That's what it's got. So maybe I need to put some into the soil again to encourage it to grow or maybe take cuttings while it's still cool, because the minute it gets warm or temperature goes up, they will stop growing or they go dormant. Echeveria coralina, you are giving me so much pleasure right now because look at all the babies that are growing in there. Look at that. Going to form into a cluster, but is there more at the back? I don't think so, but I need to remove all these damaged leaves from the frost, but you can see that it has withstood the frost. It has survived. I am so impressed. So anyway, from one plant to many, many plants. So well, that's the main cluster, and then I've got all of them here. So that one, that one, coralina, coralina, coralina. You're so pretty, even that one. So even this one's producing pups on the side. So by next year, it would be quadruple the amount of coralina I'm having. And also this nice trout planter that I've done a few weeks ago as well has managed to grow all the babies here. I don't think there's any plant here that I've planted that died from the frost, so which is good to know. So, but now it's just a matter of a waiting game to see how fast they grow or how fast they would thicken up. But anyway, this rogercia as well, cressula, look how beautiful that is, the variegation. And speaking of variegation, look how beautiful this purple delight. Oh my goodness. It's like blood spotted purple delight. So this came from a variegated plant. So the variegated plant has been chopped off and planted somewhere. And I think it's still variegated, but the stem grew all these pups, look, from the bottom, thickened up, but look how beautiful they are. Oh my goodness. So that's a reverted purple delight. Beautiful. Look, and I hope the color stays because even the baby one, you look how chubby and cute that is. Oh my goodness. I love it. This ladies and gentlemen is the last of my whimsies. I still have a couple lying around, but this is now the last that I took a cutting that is starting to grow some whimsical colors on it. So I've given it lots of fertilizer as well. So hopefully this will grow because this plant has been a struggle for me. It has never, ever flowered, therefore no seeds. Because I was hoping to get some seeds so I can grow a lot more, but this can only be propagated via cuttings or via leaves. But I find that the ones that are grown from the leaves tend to lose its beautiful color. So now maybe it's the cold that is sort of spurring on the color again. So maybe in past years it's not cold enough, but now I hope it will come back to its former glory. So this area here hasn't been watered for a long time because of the frost. I really avoided watering it, but then now I can really feel that the plants are getting softer and not good. So I need them to grow. So even my Pridian Peak here is quite soft. So now we're gonna pass away while there's still time. So it's about I think two o'clock in the afternoon and tomorrow morning forecast frost. So I don't know whether it's going to be minus four or something like that, but I don't care anymore. I've just been waiting and waiting for the right moment. So this morning was basically... we had rain yesterday so I don't need to water the rest of the garden, but this one still needs to be watered. And I will be planning to go to my greenhouse away from here and work on it and start clearing it up. And of course I want to go there when the owner is there so that he can help me take out all the equipment that he's got in that greenhouse. Oh sorry, why am I watering this area? They have already been watered. But anywho, behind me I... hang on... down here even though they're all watered and Gasteria and Aloe I think over here, they still need watering. And of course the greenhouse here, there's not enough water... more watering that I've done. So I'm just gonna drown them all up. And anyway guys, I haven't been uploading videos for a while because well, not as frequently as I used to because I am busy with a lot of other things. So also the move to Wagga Wagga that is. So that's about 250 kilometers away from where I am. So I'm still trying to figure out how I'm gonna navigate moving a lot of my succulents over there. But I can't do that unless I of course, I clean up the area first and see what I'm up for. So hopefully this weekend I'll be able to get a better perspective as to how much space I'm gonna have in that greenhouse and sort of what setup I'm gonna have. But I will be doing a video as well. So have no fear, you'll get to see the work that's gonna get into it or that's involved. And of course I have to follow the wishes of the owner. So that's something as well that we still have to sort of work out a little bit as well. So I'm still not quite sure, clear basically, as to the contract. So I'm hoping that I get to stay there for about a year and a half. If ever they decide to sell the property then I might have the option to buy it. But if not, then I can also pull out depending on how things progress over there. Or they might end up, I might end up growing a lot of succulents and they might decide to charge me double. I don't know. But anyway guys, that's all I've got for this video. I will continue watering this because it's gonna be another week before I can water them again. So hopefully, but they really need the watering now. So what's that saying? There's no point. Like the grass is useless if the horse is dead. I can't remember. I can't think right now. So while the horses are still alive, I better give them some drinks. Oh look at this aloe here. Ah nobili. Look! Hello beautiful. I need to trim you as well because there's a lot of new growth coming out of there. So those the old plants need to be chopped off to make way for the baby nobili variegated to pop out. Also this one here is also, hang on, another aloe variegated. You can see that. I don't want my camera to get wet. And of course this also needs to be cleaned up. So I think this will be a good project for us to do. I'll show you how to clean up nasty succulent like this one. Anyway guys, that's all I've got for you. Thank you so much for watching and hopefully I'll get to see you on the next video. Yes, I just want to show you the enchantress. The blue enchantress. Look how pretty. Look how beautiful the center is. Oh my goodness. It is starting to look enchanting. How about that for gorgeousness? Is there another plant more gorgeous than the Leticia during winter? I don't think so. This is only half gorgeous because normally they become more gorgeous when they are a little bit more mature. So but I'm glad that this Leticia now are looking happy in here. They haven't been hit by the frost or affected by the frost. And so maybe this are, or this is the plant, might be the best. The first plant I'm going to take to the new place to basically grow.