SUCCULENT UPDATES!!
I got some new ones that I'm excited for, including these Echeveria 'Cris' (left) and Echeveria 'Seraphina' (right). They are both so fucking cute. And yes, that's right, the moment my Seraphina leaves showed signs of propping, I finally managed to find an actual full plant and immediately bought it, haha. I'm still going to try to prop the leaves and maybe hand out some fun little plant babies to friends, though. And the Cris just has a really cool stacked shape.
This is an Echeveria 'Perle von Nurnberg,' which is a fairly well-known cultivar that I potted into a larger pot and will be keeping outside, as they're light hogs. They can grow and propagate into some truly beautiful and colorful red/purple displays, so I really hope that I succeed with this one!
Finally found an actual lithops like I'd wanted to a while back, and a nice large specimen that is solo in its own cup, which should be good for my first attempt at keeping these, as it circumvents the issue of multiple plants at different stages of growth that might react poorly to conflicting watering needs. I really love how weird these guys look.
And two little dudes I owned already, the Graptoveria 'Bashful' (left) and split rock plant (right) that both ran into issues. The graptoveria lost its red-tipped stress coloration and the split rock actually aborted its bloom (NOOOOO), which are issues that in combination prompted me to double the number of lights I have on my succulent shelf. If that doesn't do it, I can still add even more lights very easily, so I'm keeping an eye on stress colors and etoliation pretty carefully now. Thankfully the graptoveria is quicker to react than my echeverias, which would mostly just etoliate irreversibly.
