How to care for & grow Echeveria Succulent plants
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- In this video I talk to you about how to care and grow Echeveria's :-)
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Echeverias, everybody needs at least a few hundred! They look like butter cream frosting. Thanks for all of your videos Lyn and wishing you loads of love and plenty of plant power!
haha yes Echeverias are awesome plants, I really love them, and I love how their rosette shaped leaves always make them look like they are like a flowers haha, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a sunny Sunday XXXXX
I live in the State of Oklahoma in the US (just above Texas). We have 4 seasons ranging from -27°F in winter, heavy thunderstorms and rainfall in the spring, 110°F in the summer, and first frost (32°F) in the fall. Succulents have to be moved indoors and outdoors in order to thrive here. I'm amazed you've been able to keep your Echeveria PVN is so compact in Ireland. Well done! We're in our 3rd week of overcast rainy weather here and my echeveria have started stretching out a bit.
Thank you so much Nathanael :-D yes growing Succulent plants is a real challenge in Ireland as we get so much rain and high humidity even in the Summer, thanks so much for watching and your wonderful comment and have a fantastic Tuesday XXXX
you know you have a real talent for cacti and succulents WOW great work
Thats such a wonderful thing to say :-) thank you very much :-) thank you so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you lots of love and happiness from Ireland for a fantastic new week ahead XXXXX
These Echeveria succulent plants are extremely beautiful, even the colour of the leaves! Love this video! Thanks for sharing!
Echeveria's are wonderful plants and the leaves are so lovely with their floral shaped arrangements, so happy you love them too, thanks so much Sylvia for all of your wonderful comments and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Malta and have an incredible afternoon XXXX
@@desertplantsofavalon I got accustomed to watching your videos daily! I always learn something new and also admire your beauties! Lovely afternoon full of Plant Power!!!
@@falzonp1 Awwww you are AMAZING Sylvia
thank you so much! i just got an echeveria a couple weeks ago and was panicking about the little dark spots.. turns out i was just watering it directly on the leaves a bit too much. ill definitely be much more careful with her from now on
thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending lots of PLANT POWER your way for a wonderful day XXXX
This video is so great because I had a hard time finding info for my climate... I'm in New Hampshire, USA... so thank you! 💛💛💛
I just got my first Echeveria and I love it so much. Thanks for making this video
Thats fantastic news that you have got your first Echeveria today Erin, they are beautiful plants
I am so excited because I just found out that there is a huge succulent store in Atlanta, Georgia. That's where I live. I'm just so shocked that I've never found this out. Apparently it's a really big shop that many people have been to. I'm so excited!
Thats such brilliant news Jake, I bet you are so looking forward to going and have a look around and treating yourself to a Succulent or two :-) thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happy growing from Ireland to Atlanta for a wonderful Tuesday XXXXX
Could you tell me what the shop is called, I live in Georgia but I can't find many succulent nurseries
+anna Kim well there's one in Lawrenceville called Randy's plant nursery and there's another one in Atlanta called Southeast Succulents
+Jake Abney thank you
+anna Kim you're welcome
They are so beautiful! Fascinating that you can't touch them or some or it makes marks on them. They look like large butterworts to me! Great video Lyn. Have a great week :)))
Thanks so much Pam for your wonderful comment :-) yes haha! they do resemble huge Butterworts with their rosette shaped leaves haha! :-) thanks so much for watching and sending you and cutibird Turkey lots of love and happiness from Ireland and have a fantastic new week ahead XXXXX
A very nice Video Lynn. You are now the cactus specialist. Best wishes Patrick
Thanks so much Patrick for your wonderful comment and for watching :-) Hope you are keeping well and sending you lots of love and heaps of happiness from right across the Emerald Isle and have a fantastic Wednesday ahead today XXXXX
I love your optimism!
Thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and have a fantastic week ahead XXXX
Hi Lyn! I love your videos and your high spirits.
I actually use worm castings to fertilize my cacti and succulents. And believe me, worm castings work absolutely fantastically on them as they work on all my plants. I am a fan of worm castings, because there's not one plant that doesn't respond to them with vigorous growth and health.
I live in Berlin, Germany, and my cacti and succulents spend the summer on my balcony which faces south-west. It gets hot at times, but this summer hasn't fried them. Instead, I succeeded in saving their lives form the Monsoon rains, which probably also drenched and soaked Ireland.
Take care, Lyn! Enjoy your plants and say hi to Hans.
Best wishes from Berlin!
Thanks a million Marc for your wonderful comment and for watching and for sharing with us what you use :-) sending lots of love and happiness from me and Hans in Ireland to you in Berlin and have a fantastic new week ahead XXXX
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Hi Marc I also live in Berlin and new to succulents. Will appreciate if you can share info with me
Love that Purple von perle nurnberg!! She looks so dainty, well done. Would love to see any Lola's if you have them.
thanks so much for your wonderful comment and watching and sending you an abundance of love and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald isle and have a wonderful Wednesday XXXXXX
Great video and beautiful echeveria. Thanks for the growing tips. :-)
Thanks a million Chadde for your fantastic comment and for watching :-) sending you and Tammy, Lobo, Kurgan, Oscar and the yorkies, heaps of love and tons of happiness from right across the Emerald Isle to beautiful Minnesota and have a FANTASTIC Monday and week ahead XXXX
Thank you for sharing your knowledge on these amazing plants
Thanks so much Bill for your wonderful comment and for watching :-) sending you lots of love and happiness and heaps of happy growing from Ireland and have a fantastic new week ahead XXXXX
If Bill is here this is right! Only thing is to stress your succulent plants to gain better color.
Pt0wN973b0iI Thanks so much for watching and sending heaps of love and happy growing from Ireland for a terrific Thursday today XXXX
Hi from Singapore. Just subscribed. Love your video!
Hi Berenice :-D thank you so much for subscribing, I really appreciate it so much, and so happy you enjoyed the video, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Singapore XXXX
This is awesome! I just saved an echeveria from a Marshalls and it had NO instructions of care on it like the lucky bamboo i saved with it. :) I already had some knowledge of succulents but wanted to make sure the care was the same or possibly different. I will definitely have to change the pot they had it in.
Well done on saving an Echeveria :-D thanks so much Sarah for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you lots of love and PLANT POWER for a fantastic Thursday XXXX
Very beautiful your Echeverias especially liked the Echeveria Perle von Nurnberg, congratulations care !
Thanks a million for all your amazing comments and for watching the vids :-) sending you an abundance of love and happiness and happy growing from Ireland for a BRILLIANT Tuesday today XXXXX
i love echeverias. My favorite is perle von nurnberg because of the purplish/pinkish blush on the leaves. I think I have four of them. LOL! Thank you, Lynn, the video is very helpful and a nice go to when in doubt. Thank you and have a wonderful week!
Thanks so much Susana for your wonderful comment :-) I LOVE the perle von nurnberg the gorgeous lilac color is so wonderful on them, and thats so wonderful you have four of these gorgeous beauties :-) thanks so much for watching Susana and sending you lots of love and happiness from Ireland for a fantastic new week ahead XXXXX
Oh very very nice collection you have Lyn.I always wanted to see your videos because my eyes always want to see your beautiful collection
So happy you love the collection Durga :-) thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and heaps of PLANT POWER from right across the Emerald Isle for a FANTASTIC day today XXXX
Your echeverias look very healthy Lyn:-).In here the size of the rossete is not so big even they got enough and abundance of sunlight.Thanks for the tips.
Thank you so much Mazni for your wonderful comment and for watching :-) sending you lots of love and happiness from Ireland for a fantastic new week ahead XXXXX
Love love love Echeverias Lyn. I have a few in my collection now and lots and lots of babies. Yours look very happy and healthy :) Great info as usual. Thnx for sharing Sweety. Sending lotsa love and sunshine to u and yours xoxo 💙💚💜🌵🐝🐞
Thank you so much Suzie for your wonderful comment :-) thats brilliant that you have a few of these incredible Echeverias in your collection :-) and so fantastic that they have lots of babies, I LOVE it when they pup out, thanks a million for watching and sending you lots of love and happiness from Ireland for a fantastic new week ahead XXXXX
They are so beautiful.
Thank you so much Nancy for your wonderful comment and for watching :-) sending you lots of love and happiness from Ireland for a fantastic new week ahead XXXXX
It's amazing your Echeverias, I love your plants thats so beautiful. .
Thank you so much for your wonderful comment and for watching :-) sending you lots of love and happiness from Ireland for a fantastic new week ahead XXXXX
Love your collection of plants🙋🏿
Thank you so much Gale for your wonderful comment and for watching :-) sending you lots of love and heaps of happiness from Ireland and have a FANTASTIC Friday and weekend ahead XXXXX
Nice collection of succulents! Thanks for sharing!
thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending tons of love and happiness and PLANT POWER your way for a wonderful weekend XXXXXX
Beautiful plants, So pretty, I had one once but sadly it didn't survive because i didn't know you needed to keep them dry and it rotted, But i might try one again now you have made this great video, Thank you for sharing hun xx
Thanks a million for all your amazing comments :-) so sorry to hear that your Echeveria rotted, but I would definitely recommend that you treat yourself to another one :-) thanks so much for watching and sending you a massive hug and tons of love and happiness from right across the Emerald Isle for a TERRIFIC Tuesday XXXXX
I just bought one and it’s absolutely MASSIVE
Thats fantastic news I bet its a beauty :-D thanks so much for watching and have a fantastic day XXXX
Really beautiful collection of plants.
thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Thursday today XXXX
I have one of these and I'm so glad I saw your vid as I had no idea what it was😘😘😘👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼❤️
So happy you have one of these beauties too Nadia :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and Hans and I are sending you an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from Ireland and have a fantastic Thursday XXXXX
I've got a perle von nürnberg and i just tried propagating it and i really hope they grow back because they look absolutely beautiful
Good luck with propagating your Perle von nurnberg :-D they root easily from a leaf cutting placed on top of soil, they are so beautiful with their purple colour :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and heaps of PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic day XXXX
hi!
i love your videos.especially your garden centers tours.
So happy to hear that you love my videos :-) thanks so much for your fantastic comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and heaps of happiness from right across the Emerald Isle for a wonderful weekend ahead XXXX
I really love your ghost plant. I"m from New York.
thanks so much Dan for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER and Happy Holidays to you from Ireland to New York XXXX
You have alot of knowledge lyn 🌵☘🌼 thanks for this video I've defo got an understanding now Haha it's so difficult for us tho where we live lol fingers crossed we get a great summer xxxxxx😁
Its such a challenge growing these plants in our climate John haha :-D and yes roll on Spring it will be very nearly here thank goodness, lets hope we get a brilliant Summer :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching John and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from down the road haha XXXXX
always so happy you cheer me up
Thanks so much Eddie for your wonderful comment and for watching :-) sending you lots of love and happiness from Ireland and have a fantastic Sunday XXXXX
Thank you, Lyn I took your advice on fertilising my succulents with tomato food. I would love to have blooms like you do on cacti and succulents. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks so much Rachel for your fantastic comment :-) thats brilliant that you are fertilizing your Succulents with the Tomato feed, it works a treat and I bet your succulents are going to all be blooming lovely in the future :-) thanks so much for watching and sending you an abundance of love and tons of happiness from Waterford to Wexford for a FANTASTIC and FAB filled Tuesday today XXXXX
How on earth did you get your baby's toes in that amazing mound shape?! That's a great presentation!
thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic Sunday XXXX
My friend just bought me an echeveria from a grocery store. I don’t buy plants from grocery stores but this is my first echeveria and it’s so pretty! It’s pretty root bound, will any succulent soil suffice? I also have tomato food, do I put that in the soil as well?
Hi Lyanne :-D thats wonderful news you have been gifted an Echeveria from your friend, yes any good quality well draining succulent soil will work well for these plants, as long as its well draining and the soil dries out fast it will work well for Echeveria, Tomato feed is fantastic for encouraging blooming too, and use it at half the strength that they recommend for tomatoes with every 3rd watering you give them in Spring and Summer, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and have a fantastic plant powered Sunday today XXXX
i just bought one last week and sat it in full sun and now shes got nasty brownnspots :(( i brought her to the covered front porch...i always kill my echeveria..but i water them in the winter, so this year ive got 13 or so new ones and one called "Allegra " has pink and yellow flowers...i bought her blooming so happy thoughts!! thank you so much for this information...i also got some climbing aloe and a golden tooth one...but im goung to try my hardest not to water this winter...it bothers me soooo much not to water, im like the water fairy..haha, but i watch your videos and its like. pep talk not to water..gonna try this with my echeveria this year, since your no water worked for all my cactus last year :)) lots of love, light and thank yous from indiana as always 💞
Dont put them in the full on afternoon sun maybe, the brown spots mean it got burned. (Its kind of special, the lady in this video says a lot of sun, and other people say that you shouldnt put them in full on afternoon sun)
You need to harden them. Basically train your plants to sun mine was doing this as well and I would put it in the sun for a hour or so then in shade for a week or so then a little longer over time now it's in full sun all day every day and it's doing great. I think they arnt used to the sun as much when they come from stores because they sit in a building and or in a garden area with no direct sunlight
as usual..... very informtive...thanks
Thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness from right across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic weekend ahead XXXXX
Thanks Lyn! I see some other plants I'd love to know the names of, do a plant tour soon.
Thank you so much Josh and Diane for your wonderful comment and for watching :-) I will definitely make an plant update tour over the coming weeks :-) sending you lots of love and heaps of happiness from Ireland and have a FANTASTIC Friday and weekend ahead XXXXX
May you do a video on how to recognize Echeverias from other Echeverias-looking succulents?
Hi there :-) yes thats a wonderful idea as there are a few succulents that do look very similar :-) and I will plan on making one in the coming weeks :-) XXXXX
Thanks a million Lyn X
Hi my wonderful neighbour Haha I was wondering if you could do a video on all you're echeveria succulents please and name them,care etc. I got afew new ones recently and it's taking me forever to call up the names,its a nightmare lol hope use guys are really well xxxx
Hi John our wonderful neighbour haha :-D so happy you love the Echeverias, I will definitely be giving them a bit of a revamp in the Spring and do a collection tour of them and name the ones I have the names on, I am waiting for the weather to warm up a bit as its so cold in the polytunnel haha, thats fantastic you have some new ones and as soon as the weather starts to warm up I will be in the polytunnel to do some revamping on the Echeverias haha, thanks so much John for your fantastic Friendship and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from down the road haha for a wonderful evening ahead XXXX
I brought some to my home from Colorado. I think the climate change was too much for them. Sorry to say they did not survive. Thanks for the information. Best wishes Bob.
Thanks so much Bob for your wonderful comment :-) so sorry to hear that your Echeveria's didn't do well, thanks a million for watching and sending you and your wonderful Bride Melody lots of love and happiness from right across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic new week ahead XXXXX
Hi. good tips I still not have so plants but thanks anyway. I bough tomato fertilizer too. But once in how long should be applied to cacti? Thanks for sharing Lyn.
Thanks so much Gicu for your fantastic comment :-) and thats brilliant news you have bought some Tomato fertilizer, I use mine with every 4th watering that I give the cacti in the Spring and Summer, and I use it at half the recommended strength that they recommend for tomatoes :-) thanks so much for watching and sending you heaps of love and happiness from Ireland for a fantastic Thursday ahead XXXX
Ola Lyn bom dia, eu queria muito ter entendido tudo o que voce falou..mais meu ingles ainda è precario rsrs... mais suas suculentas sao lindas e perfeitas e sei que as suas dicas foram muito especiais! um abraço
Muito obrigada Fran para o seu maravilhoso comentário e para assistir :-) enviando-lhe um grande abraço e muito amor e felicidade da Irlanda por uma semana maravilhosa XXXXX
Hi! I love your channel you post so many great tips. My echeveria is doing a strange thing its opening up almost the light green part of the leaves nearest to the middle is now visible? Do you know what it is doing?
-Thank you
Thanks so much Madii for your wonderful comment :-) I haven't seen that happen before with the middle opening up, is the middle of your Echeveria forming into a hole at all ? if it is going light green in the middle and expanding it could be new growth a mine tend to expand from the middle of the rosette and sometimes they can be lighter coloured in the middle, but if your Echeveria is opening up and you can see a hole forming in the middle of your plant this could be more serious, but fingers crossed that thi is not what is happening, keep me updated on your plant, and sending you an abundance of love from Ireland for a wonderful day ahead XXXXX
Gorgeous collection!
Thanks so much John for your wonderful comment and for watching :-) sending you heaps of love and tons of happiness from right across the Emerald Isle to beautiful Maui and have a fantastic day XXXXX
Great video Lyn! :) xxxx
Thanks so much Kaitlyn for your fantastic comment and for watching Sis :-) sending you an abundance of love and heaps of happiness and tons of hugs from right across the Emerald Isle and have a BRILLIANT new week ahead XXXXX
I have one Echevaria right now, and I’ve been letting mine sit on the back deck, but I try bringing it in if it’s going to rain because I don’t want the soil to soak because I notice if succulents get too wet they rot.
Thats great you bring in your Echeveria when it rains as they can be very rot prone if the soil stays wet for too long, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a fantastic Thursday XXXX
i love your plants, nice video
Thank you so much for your wonderful comment and for watching :-) sending you lots of love and happiness from Ireland and have a fantastic day XXXXX
I receive one as a gift, it looks similar with one of yours, the big silver rosette, I keep it in the window sill and is keep bending towards the light, should I rotate it? also is growing tall instead of being flat as I receive it, what am I doing wrong?
Thats so wonderful you were gifted one of these Echeveria beauties Corina :-) the best thing to do is to rotate it regularly as they have a habit of growing towards the light :-) some of the Echeveria's grow longer and taller as they age and drop their lower leaves and often form into a wonderful trailing plant and this could be what is happening to your plant, if it is in a position where it gets ample sunshine and it is still growing taller then it could be that this is normal for it to do so :-) thanks so much for your fantastic comments and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness from right across the Emerald Isle for a FANTASTIC Sunday ahead XXXXXX
I couldn't find where to reply to your lovely comment :( anyway thank you so much for the advice after further research I believe it is just growing, silly me! I will keep you updated thank you for this lovely channel!
Thanks a million Madii for the update on your Echeveria, that is such good news :-) sending you lots of love and happiness from right across the Emerald Isle and have a brilliant Thursday XXXXX
These are extremely difficult to keep alive in northern India! We have 45-degree celsius summers and they just shrivel up and die!
Oh no so sorry to hear that, yes the high temperatures can be too much for them, thanks so much for watching XXXX
Only echeverias or succulents in general?
LOOOOOOOOOVE your videos!
Thanks so much Chris for your wonderful comment :-) so happy to hear that you enjoy watching the videos :-) thanks a million for watching and sending you an abundance of love and heaps of happiness from right across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic Friday XXXXX
i love this video
Can I mix paver sand in the mix for succulents for better drainage???
Hi there, so sorry for my late reply, unfortunately paver sand can't be used for succulents and only horticultural sand should be used, horticultural sand is much finer and paver sand stays too wet to be used, thanks so much for watching and wishing you a wonderful plant powered weekend XXXX
To be honest I think echeverias are a difficult one to grow as the leaves on the purple ones tend to rot! I really need advice on watering them😬
Thanks so much for watching Peter :-) Echeveria's are difficult with their watering as the lower rosette leaves tend to rest on top of the soil making them prone to rot as well as any water that gets caught in between the rosette leaves, I find watering them from the very bottom of the saucer and letting them take up the water from below is the safest bet, I also like to use a water nozzle pump sprayer where i can get the spray right at the very base of the plant, but it can be a difficult one and I will make a separate video on watering these plants in the coming weeks as they are trickier than the other types of succulents because of their rosette shape :-) sending you heaps of love and tons of happiness from Waterford and have a FANTASTIC new week ahead XXXX
i know you and hans are busy, but can you do a short video (or long as i adore your long videos ) how you collect rain water, clean it , and save it to water plants....i seen something in the background of video of a tub or something under a rain gutter...id like to collect it and save to water mine...without making a place for misqueto to breed...now, i fill up watering cans from the tap and let them set a few days because its hard water, plus the water company adds chlorine, and fluoride and who knows what else and ive been noticing salt build up on quite a few of my plants, even ,letting the water sit for days
Thats BRILLIANT yes we will definitely make a video this morning on how we collect rainwater and also how we lower the Ph of our tap water when we run out of rain water too and we will make and upload the vid in the next couple of days ( possibly tomorrow ) so stay tuned haha
thanks for sharing
Thanks so much for watching and have a BRILLIANT Sunday today XXXXX
I just found your videos they're very helpful, thank you so much for the advice, I got one echeveria today and an aloe, I love them so much and I don't want them to die, I live in the UK and I want to keep them in my room, can I keep them right next to my windowsill, will the sun harm them? Thank you x
Hi Harry :-D the good news is that your new Aloe and Echeveria will love the sun on your windowsill, and a sunny window indoors is a perfect place for them, they love sun and unless the sun is very strong all day ( a rarity here in UK haha ) you dont need to worry, your windowsill will be the perfect place for them, so happy you like my videos and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful weekend XXXX
Thanks
My echeveria has sun is in a south window has good potting soil in it but its still all withered and looks like its dieing. Do you have any tips or ideas?
So sorry to hear about your echeveria, yes I would get it out of its pot to double check that the roots are ok and that there are no signs of hidden root pests to be on the safe side, and check under the leaves for hidden pests that could be sucking on the leaves especially between the rosettes, check that the main stem is not going brown or any signs of base rot etc, if all looks well then it could be that your Echeveria needs more regular watering as they shrivel fast in warm sunny weather, good luck with your Echeveria and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Friday XXXXX
wow yours look so good! i just bought mine and the bottom leaves are getting floppy and starting to fall off... 😬 any tips? maybe too hot? (but it’s summer here) so I put it in a slightly cooler spot, but still gets sun though. any tips would be greatly appreciated!
Hi Becky :-D the good news is that its normal for the lower leaves on Echeverias to go floppy and then dry up and fall off, and this is normal for them to do that, and sometimes when you get new Echeverias they can often go a bit limp for a few days until they acclimatise into their new environment, they should perk back up again after a week or two, water your Echeverias every time the soil in the pot has dried out, but here is a link to a video I made on How to remove the dead lower leaves on Echeverias : th-cam.com/video/DSab4wXkWhM/w-d-xo.html XXXXX
i got a purle von nurnberg coz of hers!
so happy to hear :-) sending tons of love and plant power from Ireland XXXX
What is that spikey guy in the square black pot in the upper left of your video? Very interesting cactus you have there.
great looking plants Lyn,where did you purchase the lilac coloured ones,nice :)
Thanks so much Shane for your fantastic comment :-) I bought the one on the left from Lidl and the one on the right that is coming into bud is from the Powerscourt centre in Dublin in the florists there, they have grown really well, and the ones I bought from Lidl a few months back are amazing value :-) thanks so much for watching and sending you an abundance of love and heaps of happiness from Waterford to Killarney and have an amazing week ahead XXXXX
I wonder if you could help me, my succulents are in a south facing window and they always seem to lose their under leafs they only seem to have the top 3 layers? I live in England so it doesn't get that hot!
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!
Thanks so much Dustin for your wonderful comment and for watching :-) sending you lots of love and happiness and cactus power from Ireland for a fantastic new week ahead XXXXX
Thanks again 🌹
Thanks a million for watching XXXXXXXXX
I've got an Echeveria von something last month. It's been doing all sort of things and I'm at a loss. Atm losing leaves faster than they grow. Few days ago she was doing really well and firm and growing and happy. So confused and at a loss 🥺😔
Hi Marron
@@desertplantsofavalon thank you that's so good to know! I put her on a shelf a bit away from the window today, since the sun is shining quite bright and don't want to risk sunburn. The only nuisance are tiny flies? But I don't see any damage to the leaves or stem. I removed the fallen leaves just in case the flies like that. For watering, would it be best to soak next time? Or just a bit of water?
@@MarronStone Hi Marron :-D the best to water is to soak the whole of the soil and then let the soil dry out completely before watering again, the flies are a pain and it sounds like they may be fungus gnat flies, they are mostly harmless to adult plants, but can be harmful to young seedlings as thye can eat the young roots on seedlings but not on mature plants, but you can use the yellow sticky fly trap paper to catch them, this works well although not the most aesthetic LOL! but you could change the soil and re pot your Echeveria into fresh soil, because the flies lay their larvae in the soil and its their tiny grubs that attack the roots, this would get rid of the annoying flies, but I place a strip of the yellow sticky fly trap paper on the side of any pots I see the flies around and this kills the flies and their grubs for good, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Thursday XXXXX
@@desertplantsofavalon thank you so much for all this info and help!! I will get the sticky stuff for the flies and when the soil is due for new water I will repot if they're still being a pain ^_^ I feel so much better with the advice you're giving me! Hope you have a wonderful Thursday too ❤
@@MarronStone XXXXX
The weird thing about my room is that even though I have a south facing window. I rarely get light in the mornings cause of a building covering it up but during the afternoons, it gets so hot due to the building in front of my window reflecting that sunlight. My poor plants sometimes gets scorched from the heat cause of this 😭
Thats a shame about the building Jude, it can be difficult when this happens, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from right across the Emerald Isle for a brilliant Monday XXXX
Hello love your videos, and I really wanted to know some cacti and succulents that will happily grow indoors do you know any?
Thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching :-) when growing indoors most of the cacti and succulents can be grown very successfully indoors if given plenty of sunshine and the right conditions, the but its a good idea to avoid the tall growing cereus types of cacti and the Agave's that grow very large, unless you have plenty of space, Rebutia's Mammillaria's Lobivia's Echeveria's Aloe's and Sedums, Crasssulas are all wonderful very easy to grow plants for the home :-) sending you lots of love and happiness from Ireland and have a fantastic weekend XXXXX
Thanks Lyn another fabulous video ... how often do you feed and water yours in the summer? Xx
thanks so much Sang for your wonderful comment and for watching :-D I water them about once a week and feed them with every third watering I give them from Spring until late Autumn :-D sending you an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from right across the Emerald Isle and have a fantastic Tuesday XXXX
Just came across your channel. Do you have a video on cold Hardy succulents? If yes, can you please provide a link?
Hi there :-D so happy you found my channel
@@desertplantsofavalon well this is a surprise!! 🙂 I wasn't expecting such a long heart felt response. Not only did you answer my question but you also ended up bringing a smile to my face. Your too kind 😊Thank you so much and I wish you a happy day as well. Bless you.
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Nice idea 😎😎
thanks so much for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from the Emerald Isle for a BRILLIANT Friday XXXXX
In the video you mentioned that people shouldn't be touching the succulent leaves, because it can wipe off the coating of the plant. I've some aloe vera plants, and before I watched this video, I didn't know anything about the coating! I have many times touched the leaves of the plant, especially when I have to clean them from dust. I've then noticed that some of the waxy powdery coating got off, but I thought it will recover and make a new layer. How can I next avoid wiping the coating off, when I clean the plant's leaves? Does it harm the plant? Does it make them weaker? Can it recover agian?
Hi there :-D the good news is the coating is more aesthetic and rubbing the coating off does not harm the plant at all as its more of an aesthetic coating :-D what I find works best for cleaning the dust off Echeveria and Aloe and Haworthia etc is using a small artists brush or a blusher brush that is soft to get into all the nooks and crannies of the plant :-D its soft enough to remove the dust but not the coating :-D thanks so much for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and heaps of PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle XXXXX
Your personality is on top! Thank you so much for the advice. I also have another question :) one of my aloe vera's leaves got a brown tip, and it's going to spread out to the the rest of the leaf. Should I cut it or just let nature do its thing? I guess there's no other way to prevent it from spreading
Will the coating come back?
Hi there :-D the coating often does not come back but sometimes it does on some of mine, but all of the new growth will be normal with the coating
Haha the weather in Ireland sounds a lot like Vermont
haha :-)))) thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and phappinessand plant power from right across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic day XXXX
And the Mid-Atlantic US as well, this time of year anyway. I was so happy to see this video! *thumbs up*
What type of echeveria is the stunning purple one on the left? (The one without the flower) It's so beautiful.
Thanks so much its an Echeveria Purple von perle nurnberg, its abeauty and easy to grow :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending tons of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle for a brilliant Thursday ahead XXXXX
I have two of these, one of them has grown two long stalks with leaves on them.
Thats wonderful news you have two of these amazing Echeveria plants Adam :-D they are wonderful plants to grow, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you lots of love and PLANT POWER for a wonderful weekend XXXXX
Hello,amazing video👍🏻. So i bought a Echeveria apus couple of weeks ago and its sitting near a south and west facing window and its getting plenty of sunlight now from morning till 8 pm I’ll say(i live in Toronto) . I’m trying not to over water and kill it so only once a week watering but one of the succulent is closing its petals so I’m kinda bit worried. The others are doing fine ,petals are all opened up and bought 3 of them together. Should i move that succulent to shade or to a east facing window?
Hi Prerona
Desert Plants of Avalon Thank you so much 😊♥️That was really helpful. I haven’t repotted them yet but if i do what kind of soil should i use ?
@@preronaburagohain1643 Hi Prerona :-D I would use a cactus and succulent soil, or you can make up your own soil mix of 3 equal parts of compost, perlite and grit, a well draining soil works best for these beauties XXXX
Desert Plants of Avalon thanks so much 😊
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What's the species of the echeveria in the video that's about to flower? It looks beautiful!
hi! i love you videos. may i ask how long does echeveria to grow roots from its leaves? am new in this hobby. thanks!
Hi Karloss :-) it can take naytime between 3 weeks to 2 months but depending on the time of year and the type of Echeveria plant you are growing but patience is always the best :-) good luck with propagating your Echeveria's :-) thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and heaps of PLANT POWER from right across the Emerald Isle and have a terrific Thursday XXXXX
:) thanks!!
Hay, my purple ech is closing up, do you know why this is? I repotted it with some baby propagation pups, and now the big purple ech is closing up? Xxxx
thank you for great video ! My gibbiflora x potosina Magic Red and perle von nürnberg are stretching and losing their beautiful compact shape i dont know what to do :( do you have any tips for this problem ?
Hi :-D yes they do tend to stretch as they get older and often will grow towards the side and lose their compact shape, you can prune them if you want to keep them more compact, by cutting off the bottom part of the stem from the top rosette part and then allow the cutting to callus over and then plant as a cutting, and new shoots will re grow from the cut part, but I let mine grow and hang over the pot, and they make wonderful hanging baskets over time if you leave them to grow as they want to
@@desertplantsofavalon thank you for answer. I will try to do it. I love your videos, hope you will keep doing it !
How often do you water in the spring and summer? Thanks!
thank you so much for this wonderful video! indeed, echeverias are easy to grow as along as they receive bright light. however, keeping them in compact rosette shape during rainy season is really challenging. could you give me some tips on how to keep an echeveria (specifically imbricata) in shape during the wet season? the weather here in Philippines starts to get gloomy causing for my echeverias to lose their compactness. help me please :(( thanks:D
Hi Jobet :-) thanks so much for your wonderful comment :-) If you are growing your Echeveria's outside then what I would suggest you could do is during the wet season to bring your Echeveria's inside the house and try to keep them as cool and dry as you possibly can, this will help to keep them more compact and in shape as being kept cool will prevent them from wanting to grow as fast, but it is difficult though because of the high temperatures where you live it may be more difficult to keep them cooler, you are so lucky with the warm temperatures in the Philippines but I can imagine the heat and the wet makes it hard to care for them, but definitely try to keep them in a cool and dry place indoors during the wet season if you possibly can :-) If you already grow them indoors already and the wet weather and lack of sun makes your Echeveria's less compact in shape then the other thing you could do is to get some grow lamps to encourage the extra brightness during the wet season and this will help to prevent them from growing straggly and losing their compact shape, hope this helps, thanks so much for watching Jobet and sending you loads of love and heaps of happiness from Ireland and have a wonderful week ahead XXXX
+Desert Plants of Avalon thank you so much Lyn for the response! :D
it is echiveria or ekiveria. wt is the right pronunciation. because you are pronouncing ekiveria in ur latest video.
Same I live in irland
Thats wonderful you live in Ireland too Evie :-D I used to live in Waterford and previously Sligo and now I am up North in Belfast :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comments and for watching and sending tons of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from Belfast and have an incredible day ahead XXXXXX
I give you a like and a hug
Does that coating come off on the blue candle as well?
Also Lyn do you know of any gardening events coming up in Ireland soon where cacti will be sold?
Hi Peter :-) I will be seeing Michael Harrington from Harrington Exotics on Thursday in Dublin and I will ask him what gardening events and fairs are coming up next and for this year and I will let you know :-) he has some INCREDIBLE cacti and succulents a lot of hard to find and get elsewhere plants and at a really great price too :-) XXXXX
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Gardening at Douentza haha! I will do Rachel :-) XXXXXX
Hi Lynn, I love you videos :) I just got one of these as a gift. I use to have them but they would grow tall and die on me. How can prevent this? I am in Canada zone 8 and have them inside. Thanks so much :)
Hi Kitty :-) thanks so much for your wonderful comment :-) I find that Echeveria's will grow tall and 'Leggy' when grown indoors but in a position that is not that sunny, if you can grow them in a window that receives as much sunshine as possible ideally a south facing window then this will really helpt to keep your Echeveria's more compact and prevent them growing tall, also if growing these plants in a warm room over winter can encourage them to grow tall and leggy due to the low light of Winter and the excess heat but there are some Echeverias that grow into a trailing plant and its normal for them to grow tall and then lean over their pots as they grow older, but if your plant die after growing tall it can be caused by too little light and or too much watering, hope this helps and good luck with growing these wonderful plants in the future :-) thanks so much for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness from right across the Emerald Isle to Canada for a fantastic Wednesday XXXX
+Desert Plants of Avalon Thank you so much :)
is fertilization a necessity?
Hi Eren :-) Yes because if you are growing cacti and succulents in a pot then over time the plant will use up the amount of nutrients that are available in the soil and this can cause the plant to go sick and lack colour, short term your plants will be fine without fertilization and if you were regularly re potting every few months this would be ok, but I would definitely recommend fertilizing these plants at least once a month during their active growing season, thanks so much for watching and have a fantastic weekend ahead XXXXXX
When i live in a place that gets -60C... and my house gets cold... so sad..
Brrr thata freezing :-) thanks so much for watching and have a fantastic weekend XXXX
How other do you water them
Hi :-D here is a video I have made on how to water cacti and succulents including Echeveria : th-cam.com/video/d8yO3N7O7M4/w-d-xo.html XXXXXX
What was the name of the lil red guy below the two?
How do you manage high humidity?
Hi there :-D the humidity is always a tough one here in Ireland and UK, its an ongoing battle LOL! I usually open windows and doors on bright sunny days in Winter to help ventilate as much as possible, but I find keeping the cacti and succulents dry and not watered from October until mid March over the winter rest period helps to prevent any chances of fungus or rot away from the plants, thanks so much for watching and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a fantastic Sunday XXXX
@@desertplantsofavalon thank you for such great advice. Humidity is becoming a big problem here, and I have worried about watering with so much moisture in the air. Also, I have two winter-flowering plants ... a kalenchoe blossfeldiana and a thanksgiving cactus. Will they bloom if I don't water them over the winter? My kalenchoe (also a gift) was in full bloom when I got it four months ago, but almost immediately started shedding leaves. The leaves seemed healthy, but I couldn't breathe on them without more falling. I hadn't discovered TH-cam channels yet so had to guess. I stopped watering, reduced light, and cut back most of the blooms (thinking they must take a lot of energy). Now the leaves are tiny but are firm and green. It hasn't offered any new blooms, but even with less light & no water it's hanging on. Should I give it a good soak before winter, or leave it be?
(I am SO glad I found your channel!) 🌵PLANT POWER🌵... Have a wonderful Sunday evening.
@@samikirk05 So happy that you found my channel too :-D the good news is because Thanksgiving Cactus and Kalanchoe blosffeldiana are winter flowering plants, you can still water them in Winter, they are one of the few succulents that still need to be watered in Winter, in Winter I water both of these every time the soil has dried out in their pots, keep the Kalanchoe blossfeldiana in a sunny or part sunny position and the Thanksgiving cactus in a bright but indirect sunlight position for the flowering, thanks so much for your wonderful comments and for watching and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a fantastic Monday ahead XXXX
@@desertplantsofavalon good Monday morning from Canada 👋 Another cool & humid day. I think you just saved kalenchoe's life! When I realized summer wasn't her normal blooming season I tried to encourage dormancy, but with autumn arriving early should I start now to wake her up? Should I do this gradually? I would hate to put her into shock. Also, have you ever seen a kalenchoe trying to put out roots 2 inches above the soil? They're growing from where a branch joins the main stem! I haven't wanted to interfere (it's so amazing to see) so if it's not doing any harm, I would love to just see what happens next. The plants & I all thank you for your great advice! I hope I'm not asking tooooo many questions!
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@@samikirk05 Hi there :-D and don't you worry about the questions as I am happy to help in any way I can, yes I would start to wake her up now by introducing water gradually, give a good watering enough to soak the soil and then allow the soil to totally dry out again before watering again. Roots can often appear along the stems on Kalanchoe's as they grow, and they do this as they are trailing plants in habitat and the roots lock into the ground, and this works well for propagation too :-D and its normal for them to do this :-D have a wonderful Tuesday today and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER XXXX