Massive caudex plant haul: the Arid Zine plant adoption service
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ม.ค. 2025
- What happens when you adopt fifteen amazing caudex succulent plants? You spend all day repotting, pruning, treating and filming them!
In this video, I share the whole process of adopting a slate of amazing mature plants, and ensuring that they’ll live happily for many years to come!
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This is the kind of content we need in the cactus and succulent community! good plants, good info, good personality :)
Thank you ! Appreciate it
@@Idontcareorknow he is so good and explain everything so well.
Final ten seconds is the best sign off 😂
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It’s refreshing to see another collector who truly appreciates not only the aesthetic beauty but the phylogenies as well, which make these plants so interesting! Cheers, from Southern California, USA.
Thanks! Generally I find the deeper the knowledge about these plants, the easier they can be to grow… knowledge is power I guess.
These very interesting plants were so fortunate to find you and receive the love and attention they deserve. Great job!!!
And I’m so fortunate to have found them ! Thanks 🙏
The most wonderful plant I ever saw was a Pereskia with a Sulcorerubutia grafted on the side🌵
Fascinating! Never thought about the grafting potential of Pereskia.
@@AridZine You can definitely use Eppyphylum and Gymnocalisium for grafting or as we called them Red Caps🌵
I appreciate you sharing trust worthy information about these unique plants. You can’t find much information on TH-cam how to care for them properly.
Appreciate the kind words 🤘
Wow what a collection of beautiful weirdos ❤
Thank you! 🤘🤘
Great job on all aspects of the video: Acquisition of the plants, presentation and editing, artistry of repotting and the graphic slides of the new plants at the end. I really enjoyed this video!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.
Wow great pick up. Boophane looked the best
Yeah an amazing plant!
awesome showcase, love seeing the different ability's and quirks the different plants all have
Thank you!🙏
This is a great video! Thank you for your time and efforts to post it.
Thank you for watching 🙏
What treasures! Someday I will get a beloved caudex plant.
They’re so well worth growing 😃
@@AridZine My only problem - the reason I haven't gotten any yet - is that I heard some of them are being poached and I don't want to contribute to that. Do you know anything about that?
Great video. Watched it all the way.
Oh yeah, why do sinningia's get sunburn?
I don’t know them too well, but I suspect it’ll be because they typically grow in more shaded locations - cracks in rocks, that sort of thing - and don’t generally get exposed to blasting sun in habitat.
@@AridZine Yeah. Thanks. I was in full sun.
Congrats! What a score 🤩
Cheers! 😀
Such unique finds! Thank you for sharing - plus all the education you provided along the way! Very grateful to have found your channel!
Thank you for watching! Glad you’re finding it interesting
That was an awesome haul of incredible plants! I am so happy for you to acquire them and be sure the nice lady gets to see the video too!
I have had a heck of a summer with pests here (mealy bugs and mites) and I have been treating weekly to keep them gone for good! Keep the cooties in quarantine for sure!
I agree that several of those are specimen quality for really cool pots... once you find the best suited pots you will know! Happy growing!
It’s not often you have the opportunity to take on such a collection of amazing plants… I’m very lucky! Thanks again for watching, and good luck with those pests 😩
I’m so jealous! I love caudex plants!
They’re amazing plants!
You got lucky with some really nice old caudexes 😊 at 24:00 is indeed a pereskia, and it is beautifull to see the evaluation to cacti but besides that well.. hahaha😅
That boophone is amazing 😊 are they not just pups or seedlings of the boophane? They look like to me.
Haha I know what you mean about that Pereskia 😅 as for the seedlings - I’ve actually got a Boophane disticha seedling in my collection. Very different growth form. The leaves on these little guys aren’t fleshy like the Boophane. I was surprised to find they had little bulbs!
Amazing, thank you for making all that into one video, is quite the treat! all incredible and quirky plants, was a joy to see these
Thank you for watching 😀
What a great haul!
Dude I’m very lucky!
Love it! These plants are so lucky!
And I’m lucky to have these plants!
Excellent score there! You have inspired me to do a quick search for Australian native succulents (live in Melbourne area) and so I am going to name drop a couple I found interesting, other than the fairly common coastal pigface species with the colourful flowering habit. Portulaca cyclophylla Muell with leathery circular leaves; Gunniopsis quadrifida aka Sturts pigface, a bit different to those familiar on coastal Victoria; Tecticornia verrucosa which has an edible seed and high salt tolerance; and Salicornia spp. aka Glassworts, also salt tolerant. If I can keep learning stuff I may not leave for 50 years. (117)
There’s some real interesting ones around! Plenty of Salicornia in my neck of the woods, shame they’re not really suited to cultivation. Also worth a look; some of the native caudiciform ant plants!
@@AridZine. ooh I love ant plants! 🐜🌿
the P. saundersii is so cool, love its little face (the cavity looks like a mouth). The Sinningia might be a mispelling of "iarae"
I think you might just be right about that Sinningia name!
I am in Sydney myself and I am absolutely loving your channel a lot of what you have I can’t find anywhere
Hi mate, thanks for watching! With the exception of the amazing plants that I adopted, almost all my stuff comes from seed… which is a lot easier to source than grown plants. Just takes considerably more time!
Another great video mate! Keep up the good work!!
Thanks dude, appreciate it
Great work mate
Cheers mate!
Hi! I've been enjoying watching your awesome videos. You give a lot of good info and tips. Loved the ending of this video with the plants in their new pots and especially when you popped in at the end! Made me smile!
Haha thanks! Glad someone noticed the end of the video 😅
@@AridZine😊😁
Amazing score and an epic video to match! Thanks for all the info!
Thank you for watching! 🙏
New to the channel, found ya last night. I've been on a binge. i make bonsai you should give it a go with some of your plants especially some of the rare old ones
Thanks mate. Not sure I have the confidence to start bonsaiing some of these plants.. might start with some of the less old, rare plants.
I just ordered 100 Fockea Edulis seeds today, funny you pop up with a video about caudex the same day ^^ Will be my first try on caudex plants, think it will look good as a background for my cacti. Best regards from Denmark :)
Once you start growing caudex plants there’s no going back… you’re about to get pulled into the rabbit hole! Happy growing
@@AridZine Hehe not gona be my first trip in and around one of those rabbit holes ^^ Can you suggest other nice caudex plants easy for beginner from seed, besides Fockea Edulis. I like that fockea are Semi-deciduous and dont loose all leaves if kept at good temperature in vinter, id like a few more species like that. I do grow difficult cacti (ariocarpus and copiapoa) but id like to keep the caudex plants a bit more chill and easy going ^^ Thank you and best regards mate 👍
Depends how big you’re looking for, and maybe how patient you are. If you’re keen on something smaller that will have a caudex quite quickly, Euphorbia bupleurifolia is a favourite of mine that can keep its leaves through winter if you keep it a little warmer and maintain water.
If you’re more patient and interested in a really cool feature fat plant - a local Australian native, Brachychiton rupestris, the Queensland bottle tree, is an absolute stunner.
@@AridZine Brachychiton rupestris it is, allready looking on seeds in europe ^^ Thank you mate!
@@zhaezz84 Dioscorea elephantipes has a tendency to grow in winter, so that would be another option. Fockeas are one of my favourites as well. You can grow massive caudexes if you keep them buried up to the stem in large, deep pots. Brachychiton needs a big pot as well for good growth. You can lift them a bit to expedite the process of getting a thickened trunk.
Starting from seed is the easy rookie mode. I start with getting the plant to give me the seed 💪
Yes, true! But why stop there? Why not start with the seeds to give you the plant to give you the seeds?
Wow great video and nice re-habs! I'm sure they all do well. Keep us update. 😊
Thanks! I actually just posted a video update: Revitalising old plants: a massive caudex haul update
th-cam.com/video/aAF6UMYei7w/w-d-xo.html
@ I going to watch it now. Thanks.
Have rehomed a few senior cats over the years, but rehoming plants is a bright new notion.
Off topic, I concede, but I have a Ginko biloba tree, in a large concrete pot, which has the potential tenure of 1500 years, more or less, and it has been cycled through repotting until in it became difficult in this pot without a crane or forklift to tap out, so I have been refreshing topsoil of the upper 15 to 20cm. It has been travelling with me since about 1985, but I can't match its tenure unless something "impossible" happens in medical or cybernetic science and I can still be here in the year 3500CE. (Iff the human species is still here...) Not yet, because I am fairly sure I have at least another decade or two before recycling to compost (from "fertilized to fertilizer" on the whim of the microcosmos and my own biome conditional upon my continued feeding of it, if you don't eat you don't shit, etc.,), so I hereby make it known public that a Ginko tree will be looking for a dinosaur to rehome it. Not a rare tree species, there are a few elder ones at Melbourne uni. outside the Geology faculty which are perhaps 100 years old, and even though no central nervous system or mind is recognised which may know the difference, but captive flora deserve more than premature composting just because I've snuffed it.
Keeping a tree for 40 years is an impressive feat! How big is it?
Great episode. Can we get updates as time goes on?
Sure, I’ll come back with an update after they’re all established and growing. Thanks for watching!
I have 5 different Sinningias but not that one! They flowered in Autumn, but I live in Brisbane and the weather was warm. They are in a mix made up of premium potting mix, orchid bark, perlite and coco coir. I let them dry out between watering.
Good to know! They’re a bit of a mystery to me, keen to see how it grows.
@@AridZine if you ever propagate any, let me know! I have not been able to find any other species online than the ones I own.
Love the videos, but also dropping in to add thats a Sinningia iarae, thats a great specimen, they can self pollinate and are easy and fun to grow from seed too!
They can self pollinate…?!? It’s flowering profusely right now! Okay, I need to look into this.
@@AridZine Yup! i started with a single seedling i started like 7 years ago, i get tons of seed off it every time it blooms :)
What bristle strength do you use for the toothbrush? 😁
Great video as always! Take care
Thanks! Just a normal medium brush I think - I’ve never checked! Certainly don’t go out of the way to get soft bristles or anything anyway.
if you want bigger caudex growth, would you say keeping the plant suspended under more soil (not showing the caudex) would benefit or does it matter at all. Or is that the case for other caudex plants like Avonia? thanks, keep up the good work, may the seeds be with you 😏.
Caudex growth is really species dependent. In cases like the Fockea and the Pachy succulentum, the caudex grows much quicker when buried. Others it doesn’t matter, and some the Caudex naturally grows above ground anyway. Avonias like A. quinaria and A. alstonii grow their caudex above ground so they should be kept that way.
@@AridZineThanks for the feedback... Legend
Correct spelling is Boophone, pronounced bo-off-annee. Really enjoyed the video.
Fair enough, thanks for the honesty...... do you think they are best dry/ dormant over winter?
I try to keep mine dry… doesn’t always stop them from getting tip rot though.
Any chance you could do a care video on the adenium genus??? I live in auckland, and can grow them from seeds, but kill them around 1.5 years and also can't keep older ones alive...... Im not sure where to keep them and watering over winter ect. I would love advice
To be brutally honest, I’m still in the learning phase when it comes to growing Adeniums successfully - when I’ve got my head wrapped around them a bit better, for sure.
Curious to know why you dont like/use terracotta?
Takes up too much bench space… my greenhouse is relatively small, and I have too many things I want to grow! I’m also just used to using plastic, I’d have to readjust my soil and watering if I used terracotta. But these are all just personal preference!
Are you putting them in a soil and then rocks on top??
So interesting!! Really enjoying this.
No the soil is just full of chunky rocks. Sometimes I have tried using rocks as a sort of mineral top dressing when trying to make them look more true to habitat - but not with these plants.
I’d like to make a pot for pachypodium saundersii, but I need to find stone I am imagining would feet it’s character)
Can you share the size of the caudex part?:)
Hi, that sounds cool - where are you located? The caudex is about 20cm across.
@@AridZine wow, dats quite a good size!)
I’ll write you in instagram, just to be little more clear with what I’m doing:)
Shipping is a good question, I’m living on Madeira Island, and delivery by domestic post services scares me with prices) however, I have some methods in mind, how I can try to ship it in the most optimal way)
But first is to came to the final weight of the stone)
Omg is huge
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