@7:58 do your best to leave the dried leafs on the center rosette. I have trouble leaving the dried leafs alone and not picking them however the plant needs at “shade”. Try it for a month or two and if anything you can always remove the dried leafs after some time has passed if it didn’t work for you but it worked for me everytime once I figure it out with clusters or halo cluster to be specific. Also putting the holy gate in a slightly larger pot will help too. Sorry for so many edits. I also added yucca (natural wetting agent for soil) to my watering because of the quick drying from the lights and the drastic temp difference is what makes my plants thrive during the winter here in Phoenix.
All I can say is wow, wow, wow!!!!! And you are so clean and neat and on a creamy rug!!!! I make such a mess. I will need to watch again and take notes. And very helpful as always. Thank you so much
I love agavoides as well! And you are so right they are so much easier to take care of. Less pests, and those are the ones I have on the outer limits of my grow lights because they do tend to take a very very long time to start stretching. I just got my first lipstick and I'm so excited because it is one of my favorites and you also, thank god, helped me identify one of my newer acquisitions as well. The lime and chili! I bought it from a private seller, someone who I deal with a lot and we just didn't know what it was but I thought it was so cute. Mine is also flowering which is why I'm 100% sure mine is exactly like yours! Thank you so much,,😉
Hi Marija, and handsome Kylo, he is so handsome 😍. Your collection is so beautiful. And yes I have the same problem with my lights too. The echeveria leaves dry more, but the colors are soo beautiful.
Thanks for sharing your observations about lighting and temperatures. You mentioned the lights causing dried leaves. I wonder how just watering more often without opening the window would compare with your results from opening the window to cool the room.
I am already watering by good soaking once a week and echeverias rest in winter so watering more often in the past has made some get root rot ... I think the main problem is when there is a lot of lights in one room they warm it up... if you have less lights it shouldn’t be as hard to control temperature
It's not temperature. It's dryness from the cold winter air and heat. Your simply drying out your plants and they will shrink and used up lower leaves if they are thirsty all the time. Not to mention that more power lighting will cause plant leaves to grow upwards and shrink to avoid burning. It's natural reaction. If you want large succulents you need more water. Proper growing temps, not hot or too cold. Some nutrients in your soils. Finally good pot size to not have root bound plants. Sunlight and summer heat is way more powerful than your lights and I can grow huge healthy succulents. Your pests are due to lack of airflow. The pots you are using are poor and the way you cram them all in a tray is literally the worse you could do. Think about how these plants grow in nature. Tons of air to the roots as the roots are very exposed to the elements. Hardly ever have actual soil. Just stuck in rocks and such.
@@philipraposo8324 I agree with most points you made, but I would love to know if you have any experience growing succulents in a state that had 7 months below freezing and days without sunlight. I know that it’s ideal when you have natural airflow, light and space. I am trying to work the best I can with environment I have. More watering to echeverias that are winter dormant will result in root rot. I am soaking them once a week.
@@succulentlivingbymarija8872 I am living in Ontario Canada. I know exactly what climate your living in. I have hundreds of succulents growing indoors year round. Some I take outside too. I don't have the same experience as you. I don't have my plant absorbing it leaves and shrinking rapidly. Plants like topsy turvy are known to absorb its lower leaves quickly and this is perfectly normal. If your experiencing that on all your Echeveria I would imagine a problem. Keep in mind when you grow inside they don't always go dormant neither.
@@philipraposo8324 so what are your suggestions for someone who has bigger collection and not enough natural light? Do you have a greenhouse? I would love to have one and not to move pots, but currently I have to move all them downstairs and then move them outside twice a year, about 200 plants. Do you use any lights? If not how are your echeverias doing? I have other plants under lights and they do fine, especially euphorbias and Crassulas abs no excessive drying. It’s just echeverias that struggle. On natural light facing south they stretch (I tried with some) so that’s why I use lights.
Hello Marija! Very timely subject. I live in NY and my echeveria under lights also grow smaller, harder and more colorful. In the summer I have them outside and they grow quite large. Another person suggested they were too dry and I think that is true in a way- I think it has more to do with humidity! In my plant room is 30% and I have fans going. In the summer, outside it’s 75%. I don’t want to water more in the winter because it’s 55-65 degrees F and I think they should get a semi rest. There are echeveria that get dried leaves under lights and Trumpet Pinky is one of them. I’ve moved it to a spot that has less intense light- and I replaced some of the pumice so it won’t dry out as fast. We’ll see if that helps it get bigger!
I agree, pinky trumpet hates the lights and I have it like you on the corner of the edge tray, so as further away from light. Not 100% sure what exactly shrinks echeverias but I know that all of them that I left at the conservatory didn’t shrink and it is much cooler there. Humidity is little higher too than houses so I think those two things make a difference.
Yes, I’ve noticed people who grow their echeveria with many sunny days, heat and high humidity have giant plants! I quite like my plants to be smaller and more jewel like and I have room for more varieties so that is a silver lining. Please keep us posted about the trumpet pinky!
@@Moon_child454 I suppose I prefer them smaller too, I just don’t like when tops get small or not change over whole year. It’s nice to see some growth and pups popping 😊
Hi Marija! Beautiful collection :) The two from me are pachysedum ganzhou (the pink one) and sedeveria royal flush (the green one with pink tips). So for sure I thought you'd say the length of time the lights are on. But you said temperature... sadly, I can't keep it under 69 degrees in the house. Too cold :(
Hi Marija, I love that you do environmental experiments with your echeverias. 💚 I only have a small collection but I’ve noticed after 2 years since I begun that echeverias don’t seem to like hot weather & I had to do water therapy for my Morning Beauty this summer. You mentioned you were spraying to treat mealybugs & I was wondering how often did you repeat your spraying regimen ? I have a few little creeping mealies that are persisting & will be treating them this evening with Neem ... all mine are outdoors so no problems regarding the smell. lol
Thank you! ❤️ I don’t spray all echeverias but only ones that have visible mealy bugs. I usually repeat three times spraying with 70% alcohol once a week. Mealies come and go but most of the time plants recover. Few echeverias that had repeated bad infestation I took to conservatory during winter and they were in quite cold place in desert dome and all pests cleared up very quickly 😄.
@@succulentlivingbymarija8872 Thank you for your reply. 😊 I actually did the 70% alcohol spray because my Neem oil was past it’s use by date because I haven’t used any for over 1 year since the last time I had mealybugs which was autumn 2020.
Your Echeveria collection is awesome! The stress colors are gorgeous. Thanks for sharing your experience with your Echeverias. 😊 Do you still have the E. Compton carousel?
i have echeverias... LOLA, prolifica, PERLE, and MINIMA... its beautiful flowers... and i want to collect them another echevria.. i hope succes submit it.. because i am beginner...love echeveria
your collection is so beautiful!! 😍😍 i’m having the problem with mine shrinking up under lights too. do you know if regular LED lights for a garage would be okay to keep succulents under? for example an 8k lumen, 80 watt, 6500 kelvin. it isn’t labeled specifically as a “grow light” wasn’t sure if anyone had tried this
Not sure about that, but echeverias that I placed under spider farmer lights were drying much less. Under fluorescent lights they were also drying a lot. Colors are the prettiest under current lights though. I have been lowering temperature and it seems to be helping a lot.
@@succulentlivingbymarija8872 I wasn’t talking about customs I was talking about how they weren’t damaged, okay so you packed them in a suitcase, did you check that bag or carry it on? I’m asking so the next time I travel I can be sure how to pack mine
@@Crystal-be9ze it was checked bag not carry on and I packed them in paper just as you can see in the beginning of the video and just placed by each other packaged that way and surrounded with clothes. Sorry I didn’t understand your question 😊
Hello! Well, it depends on the succulent. Generally it’s not good to take cuttings in December and January as most plants are dormant. Early spring is good for most plants. For example, Crassulas are winter growers so they don’t like to be propagated middle of summer. Echeverias are summer growers so don’t like to be propagated middle of winter.
So decrease temperature, but also the time of light? How many hours are your plants under the lights. Do you do the same for all you succulents and cacti or put you for example, the echeveria's less long under the led light than a Euphorbia? Thanks for this video, again powerfull information 💝
Cacti are not under lights, because they live their winter rest. I keep them at coolest spots, with less light, barely any water through winter. Half of my Euphorbiias and crassulas are under lights and half near windows. Half of echeverias are under lights and half in cooler rooms in windows. I may do update so you can see it.
@@succulentlivingbymarija8872 oooww, i put mine under lights cacti, coming saturday i will take them away and put them on a shelve without light then. I think the room their in it's in the right temperature. I saw your video on that. It's just they are under lights. Ohh i am getting so confused 😆 So an Euphorbia isn't a cacti then? I search some more video's of you, i will find the answer in there some where 🤣🤣🤣
I don’t have ID for that one. It could be. The only reason I get these colors is because of lights. It gets rainy and humid in summers here and then when warm weather ends we have 7 months with temperatures below freezing. 😊
@@succulentlivingbymarija8872 no problem. I always watch your channel specially when you have new post. Btw, just wondering if you can share your soil mix? And the growlight you are using right now?
@@gardenbygrace th-cam.com/video/WTVvFj9015U/w-d-xo.html this is link to the video about all the lights I currently using. The ones above echeverias are hygrow lights which seem to produce the most warmth and dry air but they give beautiful colors. The soil mix is 1/3 coco (from one coco brick I usually have soil for half a year), 1/3 espoma organic soil mix and 1/3 perlite.
Bonjour, someone could help me to understand the name of the echeveria before the culibra IN dont understand the name and it is not writing :( thank you
When I see a dobie with floppy ears and a long tail, it makes me happy.
@7:58 do your best to leave the dried leafs on the center rosette. I have trouble leaving the dried leafs alone and not picking them however the plant needs at “shade”. Try it for a month or two and if anything you can always remove the dried leafs after some time has passed if it didn’t work for you but it worked for me everytime once I figure it out with clusters or halo cluster to be specific.
Also putting the holy gate in a slightly larger pot will help too.
Sorry for so many edits. I also added yucca (natural wetting agent for soil) to my watering because of the quick drying from the lights and the drastic temp difference is what makes my plants thrive during the winter here in Phoenix.
Thank you for sharing beautiful and amazing succulents have a blessed day my friend
Thank you! You too! ❤️
All I can say is wow, wow, wow!!!!! And you are so clean and neat and on a creamy rug!!!! I make such a mess. I will need to watch again and take notes. And very helpful as always. Thank you so much
Thank you! ❤️🌺😊 I do make mess but the trays and plastic invisible floor mat from ikea really helps me protect the carpet.
I love agavoides as well! And you are so right they are so much easier to take care of. Less pests, and those are the ones I have on the outer limits of my grow lights because they do tend to take a very very long time to start stretching. I just got my first lipstick and I'm so excited because it is one of my favorites and you also, thank god, helped me identify one of my newer acquisitions as well. The lime and chili! I bought it from a private seller, someone who I deal with a lot and we just didn't know what it was but I thought it was so cute. Mine is also flowering which is why I'm 100% sure mine is exactly like yours! Thank you so much,,😉
👏🏻 that’s awesome! They are so adorable!
I love echeveria when they have compact rosettes. They looks so superb.the lilacina and dusty rose are gorgeous
Your echeverias are all so INCREDIBLY BEAUTIFUL !!!!!
Those are interesting experiments with the colder temp. Hope they continue to do well!! 🪴❤️🌵
Thank you! ❤️❤️🌺 I hope so too!
Your collection is beautiful. I have learned a lot from watching your videos. Thanks you.
Thank you!!!
I've recently had my own temp issues. Its very helpful Ty!
Hello, The video is very nice, thank you for the upload 👍
Wow! So beautiful!
I love echeverias. Thank you for sharing with us.
Waited soooo long for this video!! Love love love your Echeverias!
You have an amazing 👏collection 😍well done 👏
Genial tu video excelente colección me encanto la agavoides gracias por compartir un saludo guapa feliz día echeverias ☀️
Hi Marija, and handsome Kylo, he is so handsome 😍. Your collection is so beautiful. And yes I have the same problem with my lights too. The echeveria leaves dry more, but the colors are soo beautiful.
Beautiful plants! Helo, Luisa from Barcelona🤗
Your echeveria collection is wonderful! So many beauties 😍
Thank you! ❤️❤️❤️
I love your echeveria collection, they are all beautiful😍🥰
Plants are healthy and beautiful I love them.
echeveria are one of my favorite succulents, I have several in my collection. fighting spider mites right now.
I hate spider mites! I had them this year!
Omg..... gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous....😍😍😍
Thanks for sharing your observations about lighting and temperatures. You mentioned the lights causing dried leaves. I wonder how just watering more often without opening the window would compare with your results from opening the window to cool the room.
I am already watering by good soaking once a week and echeverias rest in winter so watering more often in the past has made some get root rot ... I think the main problem is when there is a lot of lights in one room they warm it up... if you have less lights it shouldn’t be as hard to control temperature
It's not temperature. It's dryness from the cold winter air and heat. Your simply drying out your plants and they will shrink and used up lower leaves if they are thirsty all the time.
Not to mention that more power lighting will cause plant leaves to grow upwards and shrink to avoid burning. It's natural reaction.
If you want large succulents you need more water. Proper growing temps, not hot or too cold. Some nutrients in your soils. Finally good pot size to not have root bound plants.
Sunlight and summer heat is way more powerful than your lights and I can grow huge healthy succulents.
Your pests are due to lack of airflow. The pots you are using are poor and the way you cram them all in a tray is literally the worse you could do.
Think about how these plants grow in nature. Tons of air to the roots as the roots are very exposed to the elements. Hardly ever have actual soil. Just stuck in rocks and such.
@@philipraposo8324 I agree with most points you made, but I would love to know if you have any experience growing succulents in a state that had 7 months below freezing and days without sunlight. I know that it’s ideal when you have natural airflow, light and space. I am trying to work the best I can with environment I have. More watering to echeverias that are winter dormant will result in root rot. I am soaking them once a week.
@@succulentlivingbymarija8872 I am living in Ontario Canada. I know exactly what climate your living in.
I have hundreds of succulents growing indoors year round. Some I take outside too. I don't have the same experience as you. I don't have my plant absorbing it leaves and shrinking rapidly.
Plants like topsy turvy are known to absorb its lower leaves quickly and this is perfectly normal. If your experiencing that on all your Echeveria I would imagine a problem.
Keep in mind when you grow inside they don't always go dormant neither.
@@philipraposo8324 so what are your suggestions for someone who has bigger collection and not enough natural light? Do you have a greenhouse? I would love to have one and not to move pots, but currently I have to move all them downstairs and then move them outside twice a year, about 200 plants. Do you use any lights? If not how are your echeverias doing? I have other plants under lights and they do fine, especially euphorbias and Crassulas abs no excessive drying. It’s just echeverias that struggle. On natural light facing south they stretch (I tried with some) so that’s why I use lights.
Hello Marija! Very timely subject. I live in NY and my echeveria under lights also grow smaller, harder and more colorful. In the summer I have them outside and they grow quite large. Another person suggested they were too dry and I think that is true in a way- I think it has more to do with humidity! In my plant room is 30% and I have fans going. In the summer, outside it’s 75%. I don’t want to water more in the winter because it’s 55-65 degrees F and I think they should get a semi rest. There are echeveria that get dried leaves under lights and Trumpet Pinky is one of them. I’ve moved it to a spot that has less intense light- and I replaced some of the pumice so it won’t dry out as fast. We’ll see if that helps it get bigger!
I agree, pinky trumpet hates the lights and I have it like you on the corner of the edge tray, so as further away from light. Not 100% sure what exactly shrinks echeverias but I know that all of them that I left at the conservatory didn’t shrink and it is much cooler there. Humidity is little higher too than houses so I think those two things make a difference.
Yes, I’ve noticed people who grow their echeveria with many sunny days, heat and high humidity have giant plants! I quite like my plants to be smaller and more jewel like and I have room for more varieties so that is a silver lining. Please keep us posted about the trumpet pinky!
@@Moon_child454 I suppose I prefer them smaller too, I just don’t like when tops get small or not change over whole year. It’s nice to see some growth and pups popping 😊
Most beautiful doberman ❤
Great video thank you 😊
Very very beautiful ji Nice video ji
Hi Marija! Beautiful collection :)
The two from me are pachysedum ganzhou (the pink one) and sedeveria royal flush (the green one with pink tips).
So for sure I thought you'd say the length of time the lights are on. But you said temperature... sadly, I can't keep it under 69 degrees in the house. Too cold :(
Hi Marija, I love that you do environmental experiments with your echeverias. 💚 I only have a small collection but I’ve noticed after 2 years since I begun that echeverias don’t seem to like hot weather & I had to do water therapy for my Morning Beauty this summer. You mentioned you were spraying to treat mealybugs & I was wondering how often did you repeat your spraying regimen ? I have a few little creeping mealies that are persisting & will be treating them this evening with Neem ... all mine are outdoors so no problems regarding the smell. lol
Thank you! ❤️ I don’t spray all echeverias but only ones that have visible mealy bugs. I usually repeat three times spraying with 70% alcohol once a week. Mealies come and go but most of the time plants recover. Few echeverias that had repeated bad infestation I took to conservatory during winter and they were in quite cold place in desert dome and all pests cleared up very quickly 😄.
@@succulentlivingbymarija8872 Thank you for your reply. 😊 I actually did the 70% alcohol spray because my Neem oil was past it’s use by date because I haven’t used any for over 1 year since the last time I had mealybugs which was autumn 2020.
Everyone look beautiful Where did you find the little rocks on top of the suculent ?
Thank you
Thank you! It’s turface/clay that I bought on Amazon
Your Echeveria collection is awesome! The stress colors are gorgeous. Thanks for sharing your experience with your Echeverias. 😊 Do you still have the E. Compton carousel?
Que preciosas,muito lindas.amooooo
i have echeverias... LOLA, prolifica, PERLE, and MINIMA... its beautiful flowers... and i want to collect them another echevria.. i hope succes submit it.. because i am beginner...love echeveria
Absolutely love your collection ✨ is it possible to propagate echeveria pinky trumpet from leaves?
Not sure? I can try when it is bigger
your collection is so beautiful!! 😍😍 i’m having the problem with mine shrinking up under lights too. do you know if regular LED lights for a garage would be okay to keep succulents under? for example an 8k lumen, 80 watt, 6500 kelvin. it isn’t labeled specifically as a “grow light” wasn’t sure if anyone had tried this
Not sure about that, but echeverias that I placed under spider farmer lights were drying much less. Under fluorescent lights they were also drying a lot. Colors are the prettiest under current lights though. I have been lowering temperature and it seems to be helping a lot.
@@succulentlivingbymarija8872 awesome thank you!! the colors on yours are amazing 🤩
Really beautiful plants, the one plant that you didn’t know is a lilacina also I’m so curious how do you get your plants home from Arizona?
It was allowed… no one made an issues. I just packed them in suitcase. I read the regulations first
@@succulentlivingbymarija8872 I wasn’t talking about customs I was talking about how they weren’t damaged, okay so you packed them in a suitcase, did you check that bag or carry it on? I’m asking so the next time I travel I can be sure how to pack mine
@@Crystal-be9ze it was checked bag not carry on and I packed them in paper just as you can see in the beginning of the video and just placed by each other packaged that way and surrounded with clothes. Sorry I didn’t understand your question 😊
@@succulentlivingbymarija8872 thank you for the tips that really helps a lot!
Hola, que echeveria es la de la portada del video? Muchas gracias y un cordial saludo
No lo se 🤷🏻♀️
Amazing Dusty Rose!
Hi marija. I am pretty new with succulents. I started end of august, so I wanted to know when to cut a succulent to have more plants.
Hello! Well, it depends on the succulent. Generally it’s not good to take cuttings in December and January as most plants are dormant. Early spring is good for most plants. For example, Crassulas are winter growers so they don’t like to be propagated middle of summer. Echeverias are summer growers so don’t like to be propagated middle of winter.
@@succulentlivingbymarija8872 thank you so much. This is a big help for me. 👍🏻❤️
Black Prince...that 1st echeveria?
No, it is tscoveria Tasha, black prince is different, longer leaves, darker color etc.
So decrease temperature, but also the time of light? How many hours are your plants under the lights. Do you do the same for all you succulents and cacti or put you for example, the echeveria's less long under the led light than a Euphorbia? Thanks for this video, again powerfull information 💝
Cacti are not under lights, because they live their winter rest. I keep them at coolest spots, with less light, barely any water through winter. Half of my Euphorbiias and crassulas are under lights and half near windows. Half of echeverias are under lights and half in cooler rooms in windows. I may do update so you can see it.
@@succulentlivingbymarija8872 oooww, i put mine under lights cacti, coming saturday i will take them away and put them on a shelve without light then. I think the room their in it's in the right temperature. I saw your video on that. It's just they are under lights. Ohh i am getting so confused 😆 So an Euphorbia isn't a cacti then? I search some more video's of you, i will find the answer in there some where 🤣🤣🤣
@@carineds yes, you are correct euphorbias are not cacti and grow through winter. Cacti rest. They look alike.
@@carineds I’ll try to find links to old videos so I can send you
15.33 e. laurensis??
How can your collection really colorfullllll, soooo beautiful.. in tropical climates its really hard to get that colour 😬
I don’t have ID for that one. It could be. The only reason I get these colors is because of lights. It gets rainy and humid in summers here and then when warm weather ends we have 7 months with temperatures below freezing. 😊
echeveria envy but I can't grow them lol. tfs
I was just about to say drop your temperature between 10-15 celsius. Then you said it yourself 😀
It really made a big difference!
It is not Culibra... it is called Blue Spurs crested
Thank you for the correct ID. I was wondering about it but tag had Culibra ID.
@@succulentlivingbymarija8872 no problem. I always watch your channel specially when you have new post. Btw, just wondering if you can share your soil mix? And the growlight you are using right now?
@@gardenbygrace th-cam.com/video/WTVvFj9015U/w-d-xo.html this is link to the video about all the lights I currently using. The ones above echeverias are hygrow lights which seem to produce the most warmth and dry air but they give beautiful colors. The soil mix is 1/3 coco (from one coco brick I usually have soil for half a year), 1/3 espoma organic soil mix and 1/3 perlite.
@@succulentlivingbymarija8872 Thank you so much for sharing 🙏🏻 🤗
Bonjour, someone could help me to understand the name of the echeveria before the culibra IN dont understand the name and it is not writing :( thank you
Could you tell me what minute it’s showing the Echeveria and I will try to answer 😊
@@succulentlivingbymarija8872 oh yes at 13:47 :)