Growing Succulents Indoors | Vlog #335 - Growing Succulents With Lizk

Good morning my lovelies. In this video I would like to share with you my tough indoor succulents that have survived the frost, the winter here in Canberra Australia and also some of my indoor plants that I haven't killed yet. I just came back from a trip and of course I haven't seen my house for a while and luckily my plants are still alive. So I was only away for three weeks this time because I also came back from another trip a few weeks ago prior to this past three weeks. Anywho, I had a lot of plants that died but these ones are the ones that survived. I'm a survivor. Of course Freedom Bells is a newly bought one but these ones here have survived the winter frost. Mostly Euphobia and of course, what's this one? Phycocereus. This is so gorgeous. This is one of my last plant haul and also this one. This has actually grown so long. What is your name? Hello baby girl. I don't, I still don't know the names of, I'll put it this way, I don't know them by heart. So it's Serigia. So Serigia, you can go back there. This one, poor thing, you can see the leaves are dry on the tip because it needed some watering. So I did not water this Pachypodium last winter because I was afraid that it might get killed by the frost if it's wet and luckily I did not. Although it has suffered some dry leaves. That's the reason why it survived the last black frost that we had because I had a few plants in here that also died because they were watered or they were wet. So this Pachypodium here as well, I just love this one. Look how beautiful this one is. This is probably the oldest Sondersii that I have and as you can see that needs some repotting because the soil or this cordex here has gotten so big. It's so cute. It's like sexy legs, isn't it? Anyway, so I need to repot this, give it a bigger pot so it can grow better and also there's Oxalis triangularis. Actually this one, I took this outside while I was away because it needs a lot of watering. So of course it got hit by the frost but it's just coming back again. So this one are all sort of dying. Anyway, there you go and it's flowering. So new growth. That's actually on its way again to recovery. And speaking of repotting, this Ledybordia as well needs to be repotted. So this one actually, I just bought this a few months ago. It was only very, very cheap because I had a lot of Ledybordia before. This grows like weeds and it grows really, really fast as well. So it needs room to move because all the bulbs, there's new ones growing there. So if that is placed in a bigger pot, this can in one season. So by next year, I would have quadrupled the amount of Ledybordia that I've got here. So and this one as well. What is your name? I forgot your name now. Okay. I will remember, but it's a beautiful Peperomia. So I only ever bought two plants and I have propagated quite a lot of this plant and I have given away so much as well. And these are, I only have two pots now that have survived. So I better start watering it because it's actually really, really dry right now. This one, Pegasini. Oh, you're so gorgeous. Look how beautiful. I love this. It's like five fingers. So when I got this, it was only like about to that size. And now look how long it's grown to almost like half a meter. Look how tall it is. Look at that. It's a little bit dark in here, but ain't it you. Of course, my obsession, Euphorbia millii. I love this plant so much, but it doesn't like the frost. So luckily this one has survived. So this is the last one of my millii that has survived. Update on my gem orchids. I remember paying $25 for one teeny weeny about the size, just one stem. So there's two types in here of Ludicia, this color. I have to go check. So there's two types here. So this is sort of the reddish type. And then this other one here is more of the greenish type, but they're flowering right now. Isn't that gorgeous? Isn't that beautiful? And you need to sniff it. It has a nice mellow scent, but it's just so gorgeous. So I'm just wondering whether I'm, I'm smelling my perfume or this one. So it's actually really, really nice. Okay. Hang on. Ah, nice scent. Ah, so as you can see now, look how big this bowl is now. Look how many heads I've got. So I think it's also time to propagate them because it's growing season. Look at all those little babies coming out. So many. And also the soil that I put in it is basically an orchid soil mix. So it's very, very fast draining. So I have to water this more often or hang on. I'll just check the bottom. Yes, there's a little bit of water in there as you can see the bowl. So, but I think while I was away for three weeks, I actually sort of filled up the bowl and I think it's getting the moisture from the bottom of the bowl. And so it has survived. So look, there's only a couple of dry leaves here, which is not really all that bad, but otherwise it can survive maybe four weeks, one month without even watering. I'm sure as you can see, it's just flowered. It's just bloomed. One plant that I highly recommend, but this has to be kept indoors. And as you can see, I get a lot of light through that window here. It's always been in this corner of this room and it just seems to love it and thrive. One corner of inside here where I really want to show you are my propagation area here. So this one's here. So I've got a couple of these Codex swarming plant and I just given it a drink yesterday. Still got some moisture, but it was dry as well. So you can see that the stems are all very skinny. I've actually snipped off a couple of the dry stem and all of a sudden, it's like overnight, this new growth sprouted out. And also this other one, that's my elephant's foot here. I forgot your name now, but anyway, something dyskidia, whatever, elephant tippies or whatever your name is. But anyway, you can see that that has been really, really dry. Poor thing has been suffering. So I've given it a good drink as well. Now this is Echeveria carnicola. I forgot to put a date, but this is well and truly about two months ago when I harvested the leaves during winter because my carnicola flowered. And of course you can see the stalk there. Those are the stalks. And let me see. Hang on. Let's check this out first. Do you have all pups? No, it's not. I thought the stalk has got some babies, but these are all inflorescent flowers or inflorescence leaves. And no, no, hang on. Wait a minute. That one's got roots, but needs to be potted up. I mean, put in soil and look how fast they're growing. They're like crazy. And this one, I like this one. There's like two plants in one leaf. Look at that. It's so cute. So they're all just been sitting here under here. And then that one, I forgot what you are, but anyway, I think this is, I can't remember. What's your name? Oh, Margaret Rose. That's it. Yeah. The 8th of June, June. There you go. What month is it now? July, September, maybe October or three months. Oh my goodness. So it's almost three months and all those little babies as well. Some died and some survived and that one has got mealybug. So roulette June as well. So you can see that's a mealybug in there. Look. So that's got a mealybug and now a dead mealybug. So the mealybug will eat the little babies as well. So some of them are actually loved by mealybug compared to others. And in this corner, what are you? So white stone, but byakoran, only roots, but no pups. And the other side here, this is actually superbum that I harvested from, I can't remember whether it's a flower stalk or whatever, but you can see that a lot of the, oh, hang on. There's a name. What's your name? I wrote on it. Okay. I just figured out that one is actually strawberry ice. Oh my goodness. Look at you. So look how many strawberry ice, but it doesn't look like strawberry ice. This one is strawberry ice. So I think I put a couple of strawberry ice, but the rest of them are superbum. So that one, the thin leaf one is strawberry ice. And do I have another strawberry ice in here? I think that one there might be strawberry ice as well, but the rest of them are superbum. This corner now, I'm slowly filling up with these plants. So something sedarina, I forgot your name. What's your name? I can't remember all of this. Oh, it is also lediboria. So, oh, you're related to that other lediboria. So this one used to have some spots in it. Look, see the spots? Ah, look, the spotted lediboria. And if it's grown where there's not enough light, they will lose their spots. But if it's grown where they're exposed to light, then they will start showing their spots. So they're meant to be grown somewhere outside where there's plenty of light. But anyway, this one here hopefully will come back, come back your spots. Of course, I've got this messy plant, my string of hearts, serrapegia. Where are you? Hang on. There you go. It's in the corner. I need to move you over here. And growing this, this is a beautiful plant, but it makes a lot of mess. So I thought I'm going to repot that. And this is the last of my serrapegia that was given to me or variegated one. This was given to me by my friend Jem. And so I haven't killed it yet. So which means that I need to really propagate that. And also put a pot in the bottom there. That way all the flowers will drop into the pot and doesn't make a mess. So I have to sort of vacuum that every second day when they're blooming or they're flowering. Check out this beautiful ZZ plant here. This ZZ plant died on me. I almost given up on it until someone suggested that they will grow back. New growth popped out. So I'm happy. My ZZ, my ZZ plant. It's gorgeous. So I am going to leave it there. I just need to chop off that tip there. But otherwise, look at the new growth. Life. I can't believe there's life. Oh life. Goes to show you should never ever give up. Never give up. Give plant a chance to grow. So this corner here now are plants that haven't died on me. Pothos, of course, is very much alive. But when I left, I actually drowned it. I gave it a lot of water and then I used still heavy. So I haven't watered it till I came back. But I drowned it. So I thought to myself that they do like water. So I was not wrong in my decision because this is still alive and thriving. And also my Monstera Standeliana Variegata here, a variegated one, that I started from a small, oh sorry, from, I hit something, from a leaf. I bought it for $15. And someone took a couple of the leaves, well, taken some plants. So it was broken off. So I asked the lady if I could have a discount or can be discounted. And it was sold to me for $15. So anyway, and now look at it. But this is ready three years at least. Look how tall that is now. Hang on. There's a dry leaf in here. So this is the state of my plants indoor. And of course you can see a whole heap of mess in there, but that's organized chaos. There's a reason for that. And of course I got some, okay, Syndapsus here, Pictus. They look very much the same as Pothos. I think Syndapsus and Pothos are one and the same, isn't it? So anywho, there's other plants that died. So this one here, my Pachypodium varonii, red, both of them are dead. So I put one each, only a small plant, but the rest of the gang, Peperomia graviolens. Yay. See, there's another one here. So that one needs watering as well. Oh, fallen off. But you can see it's got roots. Look, it's got roots. Okay. I need to put you there and give you some drink. Now this cactus, moon cactus, Myhanovicii, Gymnocalycium. There you go. I'm forgetting the names. That's the last of my variegated one that's died. So anyway, Oh, look at this thing. Aha. What, what do I have here? I've got Euphorbia millii, not millii, Flanniganii. I will show you something amazing. So this is Flanniganii crested. Oh, I'm terrible. So this might look devastating, but there's still hope. If I put that in soil, that will still grow because in this corner on my windowsill, do you see what I see? Look at this one. So this is also Euphorbia flanniganii. Okay. So both of them are Flanniganii and I'm getting distracted. So coriander, you can move aside. Now this one now, it was in the same state as these other ones. I think I have, I've done a video of harvesting them and can't remember a long time ago. So that would be at least almost a year ago is when I harvested these poor things and I forgot about them or I didn't have time to pot them up. My brain was just all over the place. And I think that's a little bit of millibug in there as well. So this one now I'll just put it in here along with a pothos, I mean a pothos, a Hoya leaf that I'm hoping would actually grow because it's got a little node there. So I'm letting it dry up and I'm going to put that in water. So anyway, so that was the same state and look at it now. These ones now have grown roots, look, grown in water. Who says that succulents don't grow in water? So this is the oldest. So after drying them out, like really, really drying them out, like almost dead dry, then I put it in water and of course roots starting to grow. And hang on, I'll just smell this. Oh, the water's not stinky. So, so I changed the water every second day and or third day. And then now look at that. So now they're ready to be potted. So I got a one, two, three, four heads in there and then a five, six, seven, eight. There you go. And then now those two as well, I have to pot them up. So also, okay, while I'm here, I'm just going to show you this three-year-old This was a gift from Nora Guardian 89 when I bought some plants from her. And this was also wrinkly, dead, almost dried out. And of course, instead of putting it in soil, I put it in water. And just for curiosity's sake, I just want to find out if they're going to grow in water. And it did. And look at that from a tiny, teeny, weeny little thing like about that size to look how big it is now. And that's three years in there. So that water is getting sort of mossy again. So I have to change that. And of course this one, Sanseveria, how are you doing? You're still alive. Do you have roots? Yes. Okay. Success. Can you see the roots there? So those are really roots popping out. So that needs to be potted up as well. And speaking of Hoya leaf, like this leaf here, this Hoya here is Hoya Royal Hawaiian. And this plant started life as almost, I think two leaves, not one leaf like this. And there's a tiny, tiny little node as well. So when I started, this is now four years ago. Oh my goodness, four years. So it took to grow into this beautiful, magnificent snail compared to how it was anyway. But I've always kept it in this container here. So I just top it up with water and gave it some liquid fertilizer, actually Thrive. I've been feeding it Thrive fertilizer and it seems to like it. And sometimes I would give it some orchid fertilizer and it doesn't care. So anyway, but really I should really pot that up as well. So I will be doing a whole lot of potting videos in the coming videos, so coming weeks and months now that I'm here because I won't be going prospecting for a while. And speaking of prospecting, this is or are the rocks that I just collected from my trip. So this one are quartz crystals and this one needs to be cleaned up still. So I just wash it off with water, soap and water, so I can do a video for my other channel. But the rest of this is just mainly specimen from the area that I've been to. But a lot of these crystals here, the real crystal heads, I'm going to make them into jewelries because they are so pretty. I mean, crystals, quartz crystals are not worth that much, but still it's one is only limited by one's imagination. Once it's all done up on a pendant, there's always someone who would appreciate that. Anyway, guys, that's all I got for this video. I thought I'll just show you the state of my indoor living right now. And of course, since it's only me here, it doesn't matter if I make a mess because look, I've been sitting here listening to music, the air supply, basically music while I'm cleaning the rest of the quartz crystal that I've collected. And you can see that I still have this one to brush up and clean up. So anyway, guys, that's all I've got for this video and hope you enjoy this little show and tell or how I grow my indoor plants. And speaking of indoor plants, I need to show you this one as well. So I got rocks that's actually found by my husband in one of our trips and that came from Western Australia. Beautiful amethyst crystal. Look at that gorgeous. Anyway, so it came from it was actually a one big geode and he smashed it and that's what he kept. So and this one here, my vanilla orchid that is four years old. This plant has gone through a lot and I think this was one of my birthday present in one of those years, many, many years ago or my husband's birthday present for me. And this thing likes to be wet. So I just spray the mossy better doing. I normally do it in the sink, but I'm just showing you so you get an idea of what I do. And of course, I give it a good drink and to fertilize it. I use orchid fertilizer. And speaking of gifts, this is a gift on one of my birthdays. Was it from hubby or myself? It doesn't matter. So I actually done a plant haul video featuring this plant and it was only a small plant before. But look how much it's grown and look how many hard hoya variegated I can take from this one. So look at that. And it's crawling up and crawling up up to the top. But then up to the there, there's still no leaves, but there's new ones popping out. So you can see one, one leaf, another leaf and another one. Look at them. So I have to keep watering this. So that way I can keep up the nutrients for them to grow and grow and grow. So anyway, guys, this is it. Really, this is all I've got. I hope you enjoyed this little show and tell of the state of my indoor plants. So I'll see you on the next video and I'll continue watering this one. Okay. There you go. But isn't this lovely? Isn't she lovely? Look how beautiful the color is.