My cactus & succulent houseplant collection

Hey guys, today we'll be taking an up-close look into my succulents. So that's what this is, a one-by-one tour of my succulents. As I was moving these around to show you, I did notice a lot of care things I want to do. So I took note of each of those and all of that will be included in my next plant care with me video. It will be up ASAP as possible. Let's get started. Where normally these are scattered kind of all over my house. I keep a little bit here, a little bit there, a little bit everywhere. During the summertime, I do move a large majority of these outside onto my covered deck where they get some pretty good sunlight. And then I'll just move them back in for the winter. What separates them from other plants is they've developed systems, whether it be in their leaves or their root systems or their stems to store excess water so that they can survive periods of drought. A lot of plants are considered succulents. Aloe, Echeveria, Jade. There are also a lot of semi-succulent plants. Holiday cactus. Peperomias are semi-succulent. They have really thick, fleshy leaves that store water. I'm really excited to show you all of my succulents. I have a whole bunch of them here and then also a lot of them on my shelf here. I actually think I'm going to move these ones out of the way for a minute so we can get in really close and one-on-one. I love my succulents because they just, I can count on them to always look good. You know what I mean? To always look decent. Okay, we're going to start with what I'm going to call oddball succulents. Myrtillo cactus, Geometricans, Booby cactus. This is one of my more struggle succulents. It's just looking really, really sad. I don't know if it got burned or too cold or maybe has a little bit of rot. Like, what is that? You see the brown spots? In the summer, I thought it was sunburned and now I think it's too cold. This is definitely one I'm going to be checking the roots of. I don't know, I'm really having a hard time with it. I just hope that an unpot will help me figure the issue out for sure. Otherwise, this is a really pretty cool one. It looks like boobies! We're back! Here are all of my oddballs. The rest of my oddballs. Starting here, we have Euphorbia lactea cristara. It's definitely grafted, but I don't really know too much about grafting. Anyway, I like the shape of it. I've had it in this pot since I got it years ago. Some of you may remember Ryan bought it for me as a gift and it was one of those glued down succulents that you find at the big box stores. We freed it. Still have it, but I don't really know what's going on down here. It's been a long, long time and not much has changed with this plant. So I'm also going to unpot it, check the roots, and then pot it into something different because I just don't love this generic purple planter. I just don't! It looks like a tree. That's what it looks like. If you squint your eyes and hold it out far, it's a tree. Shady tree. I don't know if me and that plant are exactly getting along or not. Maybe not. But it hasn't died. So that should tell you something about the longevity of these plants. Anyway, this is a Euphorbia milii or crown of thorns. And this was one of the like starter plants for me that when I saw the plant, I just instantly was drawn to it because it has a lot of character. It's a really unique shape. I love the leaves. They get a little bit sun stressed, but especially more than anything, I love the blooms. This one blooms so much. I'm starting to pay a little more attention to the blooms so that I can learn like when they happen, when they don't. So far, end of summer through now, it's pretty much constantly been blooming. I have to water this one quite a bit because it's drying out a little bit too much with how much light it's getting and how porous of a mix I use. And I quite like this little setup we got going on here. So I'm not going to repot it today, but I will sometime in the near future, maybe in the spring, early spring or something. I'll get around to looking into it. This doesn't belong in this category. I'm taking this one out of this category. Next is what? Trigona. This is a Euphorbia trigona variegated. It does grow, but for some reason it doesn't get those leaves or, you know, the leaves that they typically have start to grow in and then fall off before you can even barely see them. So I don't know why that's happening. Maybe it's a humidity thing. I have started to water this plant a little bit more lately. We will see if it works out. I would appreciate some tips. But the plant itself is growing, just no leaves. Kind of weird. I'm probably going to have to unpot this one soon or I think it might get stuck in here and I would hate to have to break this planter in order to get it out. The little arm. I think that's so cute. I love the weird shaped plants. This actually isn't my favorite succulent in my collection. This is a Euphorbia. Is a Euphorbia obesa? Let me check. Yeah, and I don't know about this one. I kind of like it kind of makes me uncomfy. But when I get up close and look at it and see all of the different markings and color variations that the plant puts out over time, I love it. This is one I probably will always keep because I'm in it for the long game. You know what I'm saying? Like it gets really cool kind of Chevron looking stripes. And right now it's growing in super, super blue. Kind of a cool one. But every once in a while, it looks a little sus. You know what I'm saying? Last of my weirdo ones that I didn't really know how to categorize is. Tephrocactus geometricans. This is one of my favorite cacti and overall succulent, honestly, because it is so unique. Another long game plant. This one grows incredibly slow for me. I've had it for kind of a long time. Ashley from Plant Me, Ashley actually gave this to me years ago. It's been fun and it did put out a new ball since then. It has been a while though, but I don't know. I think I'm I think we're kind of starting to figure each other out. I have a photo from earlier this spring when the ball first started to form to now. And you can see like it's exciting, but you got to be patient for it. And it'll be fun to see what it ends up looking like years and years from now. This one is looking pretty dusty. So I'm for sure going to be spraying this one off in the sink. A lot of my plants actually will probably end up sprayed off in the sink. So I'm going to start this category of succulents off that they're semi-succulent. And then this category is going to morph into true succulents, kind of more hangy look style like these ones. I'll have to put the name of it on screen. This is my little propagation, succulent propagation planter that I keep a lot of little props in. This is definitely one I have on my list to pot. It needs to go into a pot and it gets these little leaves on the tips of these like weird branches. That is so cool, but top heavy. So I yeah, I've had a hard time. It's like not my favorite succulent, but it's one I'm interested in enough to see what it'll turn into. You know what I'm saying? But yeah, okay. That kind of was part of the last category. So for the semi-succulent category, let's start off with a couple of the more well-known semi-succulents, or yeah, well-known popular semi-succulents, which are Hoya. I only have two of my Hoya here right now. Hoya ybergii, the leaves are a little bit like freckled. And when the leaves get sun-stressed, they turn a pinkish color, which is really pretty. They can actually get pretty vibrantly hot pink, although that has not happened to my plant yet. We will see what happens in the future, but that's what's going on with this one. I need to figure out some sort of trellis so it can grow, I don't know, a little bit less floppy like that. This is a Hoya species, Ganongading, which absolutely one of my favorite Hoyas I've ever had. That's why it lives upstairs with me because not all of my Hoyas do. I really, really like this one. I think it's so pretty and yeah, the leaves are definitely really thick and sturdy, and I don't know, it's just a strong looking plant, which I love that. It can dry out quite a bit between waterings, and the plant won't just kill over. I don't know, I think that's, I think it's a good one. It's a good, pretty cool one. This is a Ripsalis, which is probably the most unique shaped of any plant in my house. These little sections of the plant will shrivel when they're thirsty, so they hold water. This one does need a little bit more frequent waterings. I do think it appreciates that, but yeah, it's not like so needy that I'm watering it more than once a week. This is an Asconanthus, a lipstick plant, and this is the Thai pink variety. It's a really pretty like buttony hanging plant. I love it, and I thrifted this planter in one of my videos. I think it looks so good. I've been really in a thrifting mood lately. I've been sick, so I haven't been able to, but I think I'm gonna go thrifting soon. Get away from these crazy kids. I just realized I completely forgot to talk about one of my favorite semi-succulent plants, and that is my Schlumbergera truncata, Thanksgiving cactus. This is so different from any other plant I have, because I mean like look at these little bracts, I think is what they're called, bracts. Leaf things are so different shaped from any other plant, and it also blooms. Y'all know how much I love blooms, so one of the best semi-succulents. Okay, this little guy here is a, what is it, donkey tail? Mine is pretty small, so it doesn't look super hangy, but the older these get, the longer they get. I'll try and find a little clip of this one from when I first potted it into here, what it looked like. It's been a year and a half now, I think, and okay, it doesn't look like much, and it's not much, but it's something. It has had some growth, so you know, maybe I'm not the best at keeping this plant, but hey, it's still here after all this time. Okay, next up is a Peperomia Hoffmannii. This one, it's one of my favorite hanging plants, because it does just look so full, and like kind of soft or something, I don't know. I think it's really cute. This is actually too long for the stand now, so I want to find somewhere new to put it. I may end up trying to do that, finding a new spot for it a little bit later, so that I can like truly appreciate it in all of its hanging glory, because right now it kind of sits like flat a little bit. It like sits on the shelf like that, and I don't love it, so we'll find a spot. The next ones I'm going to show you are like pretty typical succulents that if you Googled succulents, I think these might come up. First up is Crassula ovata, one of my favorites. I mean, this plant are like spiritually connected at this point. I love this plant. I've had it for kind of a while, and it's just a really easy overall tolerant one. I can really tell when it needs to be watered, because even just looking at it here, you can see the leaves just look less plump. They look a little shriveled, teeny bit wrinkly, especially on the back. They're pretty bendy and flaccid. So my goal this year is to get this one to bloom. We'll be trying some things out. What is next? This agave. I actually don't really love this one, because it is pretty poking and menacing, and I know if my kids got a hold of this, these could do some serious damage. They could do some eye poking, some flesh tearing, all sorts of stuff, some couch tearing. It could tear through a lot of things. I probably would never get another crazy, pokey plant like this again. I just make sure to keep it higher up. You look really close. It's super wrinkled, super, super wrinkled. Needs to be watered. Next up is this bad boa, which is Haworthia limifolia variegata. Variegated? I never know when to use variegata versus variegated. Anyway, this one is a little bit lackluster to me. I do really like the shape and the texture of the plant. The color's really pretty. It has like stripes of yellow and green throughout it, but maybe it's actually the planter I'm not obsessed with. It just compared to the rest of my planters that I'm obsessed with and love. This one just feels like it's missing something to me, so I don't know. Maybe I'll add some little polymer clay planter or flowers to it or paint it or something or just pot it into something. Maybe I'm gonna go thrifting. I need to go thrifting. That's what I'm like craving right now. It needs a change. It's just a little boring to me at the moment, but it's probably because the planter. What? This doesn't look like much of a succulent anymore, but it was an Alloynopsis malherbe, which I love the little white dots at the tips of each of the leaves. I thought it was so cute, and I was excited to try and get it to bloom, but clearly something happened. I think it either got too high of light and went dry for too long or I overwatered it. Not certain, although I think this plant is really cute. I'll definitely try it again in the future, but it didn't work out this time. I'm gonna toss this one. Just a bummer, you know? Sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn't. Now for aloe, I have two aloes. This one, an aloe vera. We have used some of the leaves off of this for sunburns during the summer. Ryan mostly. I had this plant outside during the summer. It's growing so much better now, so I would say this plant doesn't want super direct light outside. I think south window light is fine, but yeah, nothing too direct outside because mine burned really bad. I potted it into here, growing so much healthier. I don't know if you can tell how much bigger the leaves are now compared to when I put it in here, but much better. And it has a little baby right there, so that's exciting. Probably my favorite, although it doesn't look like much. Let me put it on this side. I know it does not look like much. It has lost some tips. This got knocked over by an angry toddler a few months ago. The planter shattered and I just scooped up what I could, put it in this planter that I had readily available to me right then. That's why it's a little bit not the right size. Clearly, this is a little bit tall for it, but I'm going to leave it here for a while. It's already been through a lot with the fall and a lot of tip breakage. Pretty big bummer because I've had this plant for kind of a long time. It is what it is. We're just gonna let it grow, see what happens. My favorite thing about this one is the reddish fangs on the tips. And unlike the agave fangs, which are actually really pokey, these ones, yeah, I mean, they're kind of pokey, but they're not going to do any damage. So this is a good one if you like menacing, dangerous plants. Okay, now on to Sansevieria. Hello, testing, testing. We are now to the Sansevieria section, which definitely makes up the bulk of my succulents. I really like the Sansevieria growth pattern. Well, we'll get into that because there are some exceptions. So this one is my Sansevieria cinta, and the leaves are kind of like lightly blue tinted, pretty long and narrow. And they have cool stripes that go down the lengths of the leaves. So I think it's really cute. And it's just a nice little plant to fill any small planters that I may have. Yeah, I really like it. All right, this is a little cluster of Sansevieria hybrid. It's been a really fun one because suddenly popped two babies, one right after the other pretty quickly. I'm pretty excited for the next summer to see if we can get this cute little planter I have it potted in, like more filled up. I'm going to top off the substrate on this one because it got knocked over, surprise, surprise. And when I like scooped the soil to put it back in here, I couldn't pick up enough of it to fill the planter back up, if that makes sense. So I just need to do a little bit of like backfilling to fill in those empty gaps, just make it look a little more crisped up, some little pebbles on top or something. We'll see, but I'm going to definitely address that issue. So this one, Sansevieria masoniana yellow variegated, which is so, so pretty. I've had this sucker for three years now. It was an unrooted single leaf when I got it. I had this thrown down in my grow tent and I ignored it for till now, but it has pushed out two leaves. There was actually another one that died off, probably the original leaf. And yeah, I'm excited to see where this plant ends up. I will say about the thing about Sansevieria is I'm not a super fan of the really tall, skinny leaved ones, but where this still has kind of longer, taller leaves, they're like a little more rounded shaped, up top instead of just a long skinny thing, which I don't know. That makes me like it a little more. This one is potted so weirdly in this planter. I don't love this planter. I think I'm going to try and find something to repot this into, so stay tuned. We'll see if I can find anything. If not, it's fine for a minute until I'm able to find the planter for this plant. I do think it'll look a lot better once I have it a little more styled. In a planter that matches it. Next up is, we'll do this one. This, I'm going to have to look up this name. This is a Sansevieria blue clone variegated. It's really minty looking and the leaves are really juicy and bulbous, especially toward the end. This one is a little bit different shaped. I mean, it's similar, but these leaves are definitely like chunkier, sturdier, which is fun. It does need to be watered a lot more frequently than the rest of my Sansevieria, but it's worth it because the color of this one is so unique. This is one of my easier succulents to tell that it needs to be watered. It's not actually really very well rooted at all. I had an issue where this got dumped off the edge of my dresser downstairs and I didn't notice for a while. So when I finally found it, it was in a little bit of poor shape. The roots were all dried off. We are coming back though, because when I tug on this, it doesn't pull out, which means there are roots down there. Progress. Good job, little plant. This is one of my favorite Sansevieria. Another one that I just kind of forgot about down in my grow tent for a long time. So I will have to put the name on screen because I cannot for the life of me remember it right now, but it is one of my favorites. The leaves have little rippled edges, which I think is so cute. It is just more of a compact little plant. I mean, I'm sure it'll grow up to be big and mature and it'll also be cool then, but it is a plant that I can really appreciate even small because it's just so cute. It's just a cute little Sansevieria. These two I'm going to show you together. Let me zoom in a little more, maybe. Crossed Sansevieria personae, Cordova and Boncel, which kind of weird. I don't know how that exactly works, but it has a cute little like stacked growth pattern. I mean, it's just kind of a simple little plant to fill. I keep saying it, any little planters you have, but it is a nice looking, easy plant to care for. I'm showing you this with that one because they do look really, really similar. Although this one definitely, the orange planter one definitely has stouter leaves and this one definitely has longer, more narrow leaves, but the markings look pretty similar. This one's a little more blue. Anyway, I'm getting off topic. I don't know. I don't know what this one is. If you have any ideas of what the idea of this one could be, please let me know. I really like it. It's another one that's kind of filling in this unique little planter I picked specifically for it and I think it's looking so nice. So hoping for another little baby to grow in right here this summer, that would be exciting. It would just, it would just be the cherry on top of a perfect plant planter combination, you know, in my mind anyway. So I'm really rooting for that to happen. Please help with the ID. And last up, we have this, which is, what is it? Let me look on my phone. I don't know what this is, but I know the people of Instagram will know. So please help. Hopefully someone there pulls through. This is another grow tent thrown plant that I just kind of threw it in there to root and it grew into this really cool shaped little thing. I love it. It's just so weird. And it's another that I love the overall combination of the two. So I'm not gonna change anything about this one in our little plant care day vlog, but I will water it. So yeah, I like really love them a lot. They're plants that since life is getting a little bit busier for me again, I am really enjoying how easy they are to maintain. I don't have to do much and I don't have to put a lot of worried thought into them, which is nice. Yeah, those are really all the succulents in my collection. I hope you liked seeing my plants and getting an up close little view of them. I have fun chatting about them. So thank you so much for being here. The plant care day vlog is going to be a separate video. I just know I've already been filming for way too long today and you probably could already tell, but I'm sick. So it took a lot out of me to get this one done today. I gotta be honest. We will do all of that care stuff tomorrow. Link will be in the pinned comment and at the top of the description box, check there to see what fun little tinkery plant chores we can get up to together and what we can chat about. That's it for this one. Thank you so much for watching and I will see you in my next one. Bye!