I love, love, love the Next Gardener ❤️ they ship beautifully, packed with such care of my new babies. Laat count was about 265. (I have a problem) I'm actually new to succulents & cacti for a little over a year, now orchids. Recently retired, and spend most of my day tending to them. I live in a 3 room apt in New Jersey w/ 5 windows with standard sills and patio door. Also in a wheelchair so going out isn't an option because it's not HC accessible so I have grow lights and many rolling carts. I've learned so much from watch videos from you and 2 others. Keep the informative videos coming! Love your new babies. The only rule that I have is that I wait about 3 days after planting before I water mine.
@@plantvibrations I'm not that tech savvy & no where near the informativecaliberyou're at. But I do have friends from work drop off their succulents that are almost dead thinking I'm a miracle worker. Too much watering, wrong pots. Everything I've learned has been through reading up and watching my 3 favorite people 😊
Enjoyable video. Couldn't help but notice the usual problem of watering with the water falling off to the side. Over many decades I have found by using warm water, comfortably warm not hot it will absorb so much easier. I do this all winter when the plants are stuck inside with me, and it actually brings a nice scent of the earth into the air when you need it most.
Nice video! This is my first time visiting your channel. Have you discovered bonsai soil scoops since you made this video? If not, let me say they are SO MUCH better than a spoon for placing soil in small places. Plus they are reasonably priced-I got a five pack off of Amazon for under $10. I love TNG plants too. I can usually get away with waiting an entire month after repotting them before I need to water them for the first time. (My collection is indoor year round and I use Bonsai Jack gritty mix for my soil.) The succulent community on Reddit introduced me to the “watering on signs of thirst” idea (that is, not watering until the under part of several leaves are wrinkly or the leaves can be gently squeezed). That approach has been a game-changer for me-no more overwatered succulents, especially echeverias! 🙌
Succulents have been among my top favorite groups of plants since early childhood because no other group of plants offers such remarkable examples of perfect radial symmetry, or such sculptural esthetics. And they're "cute" because their reduced surface area as an adaptation for water conservation = stubby, bluntly rounded features, the very features that make baby animals (even many that naturally receive no parental care) appealing to us. Radially symmetrical, short leaved rosette forming succulents such as Echeverias often represent the rounded, spiral centered radially symmetrical forms that breeders of such unrelated flowers as exhibition tuberous begonias, modern roses, and gardenias, strive to achieve. All good things have their drawbacks, and succulents quickly lose their form and the anthocyanin pigments that give many such pleasing highlights, under inadequate light, as when they are sold at supermarkets, shipped by slow transport in a dark box, or when artificial light is not provided during extended spells of dark cloudy weather. They generally have above average susceptibility to fast spreading bacterial and fungal rot. Many succulents are predisposed to rot and other disease by very humid weather. Sempervivums (hens and chicks), unlike most popular succulents are or are hybridized from alpine plants native to southern and central Europe, and thus often have very different temperature requirements from desert and semi desert succulents. My favorite in this genus, S. arachnoideum (Cobweb Houseleek), will lose many rosettes to overnight rot during hot and humid weather. P.S. slugs and snails (particularly the tiny Bush Snails [Zonites arboreus] that also plague many orchids) not only damage succulents outdoors in the garden, they also readily stow away in the pots and containers of succulents when they are brought in for the fall.
thank you for your insight and vast plant knowledge! what part of the plant world have you worked in, because it is clear you have been in it for awhile
@@plantvibrations I'm actually a retired biologist with primary interests in birds, plants, and insects. I worked in nurseries and plant stores as an adolescent and during part of my years at university, but my interests in how nursery and house plants originate and where and how they are produced are more a result of having grown up in many different countries in Europe and East and SE Asia as well as the PNW and NE US. Few commenters on most videos for plants and animals ask about the identity of unidentified video subjects; I like to believe that any scientist would wonder first what they are, and what they are doing in the video. During some of the years that I lived in Japan, plantings of hybrid lilies became an increasingly important and admired feature in many public gardens and parks. While the "Oriental Hybrids" were clearly descended from the native Lilium speciosum rubrum and L. auratum, the "Asiatic Hybrids" and trumpets were not. I was informed by the staff at these places that they were both hybridized and grown on a massive scale in the Netherlands, and that those I admired in bloom in Japanese parks and gardens were grown from bulbs imported from the Netherlands. Similarly, I was surprised and delighted to see mass plantings of our West Coast native Baby Blue Eyes in Hitachi Seaside Park, but these were uniformly more floriferous and vividly colored than their wild brethren. So my scientist's curiosity led me to a pattern of researching where and how the indoor and outdoor plants that delight us phytophiles originated, and ended up at the garden centers greenhouses, and websites where we purchased them. I would like to thank you for your excellent channel, particularly for your willingness and effort in responding to the many inquires that you receive, a relative rarity among TH-cam vloggers! Failing eyesight (I've actually been nearly blind from infancy) has curtailed most of my plant related activities. It's gratifying to see many in younger generations worldwide dedicated to and encouraging long term interest in growing plants!
Nice succulents plants deven they should do really well I brought me a pink lady turtle vine succulent! Have you ever heard of it? My first time buying it hope it does very well for me. Please update.
I've planted chics and hens in pots,can they be left out all winter? We get cold here in South western Ontario Canada 🇨🇦 plus I don't want the terracotta pots to crack. Please help lol 😆
You do get the quality and our care for them. Thank you. Can't wait to see them thriving this fall.
Yesss!! They’re already starting to feel at home in their new pots
I love, love, love the Next Gardener ❤️ they ship beautifully, packed with such care of my new babies. Laat count was about 265. (I have a problem) I'm actually new to succulents & cacti for a little over a year, now orchids. Recently retired, and spend most of my day tending to them. I live in a 3 room apt in New Jersey w/ 5 windows with standard sills and patio door. Also in a wheelchair so going out isn't an option because it's not HC accessible so I have grow lights and many rolling carts. I've learned so much from watch videos from you and 2 others. Keep the informative videos coming! Love your new babies. The only rule that I have is that I wait about 3 days after planting before I water mine.
Wow 265?!! I wish you had a channel so I could learn from your experience!!
@@plantvibrations I'm not that tech savvy & no where near the informativecaliberyou're at. But I do have friends from work drop off their succulents that are almost dead thinking I'm a miracle worker. Too much watering, wrong pots. Everything I've learned has been through reading up and watching my 3 favorite people 😊
I have learned so much about succulents in this video ❤ . I almost gave up on them. Now, does this also include agave plants?
Yes it does! And I will also be releasing another succulents video about growing them indoors very soon so stay tuned
I personally use top dressing just for looks. It’s usually pumice.
nice! i used top dressing from time to time too
Can you do a video on cold hardy succulents? We just order the cold hardy succulents from QVC.
Here it is! HENS AND CHICKS Sempervivum Hardy Succulents
th-cam.com/video/ww-zz6r7TZc/w-d-xo.html
Hope get more info about temperature and light need. Thanks for your sharing.
Will do!
Enjoyable video. Couldn't help but notice the usual problem of watering with the water falling off to the side. Over many decades I have found by using warm water, comfortably warm not hot it will absorb so much easier. I do this all winter when the plants are stuck inside with me, and it actually brings a nice scent of the earth into the air when you need it most.
oh wow thats a great tip! thank you for sharing!
Great Content. I'm even more hyped up to plant succulents
Niiiice!! Yes these ones are magical
Nice video! This is my first time visiting your channel.
Have you discovered bonsai soil scoops since you made this video? If not, let me say they are SO MUCH better than a spoon for placing soil in small places. Plus they are reasonably priced-I got a five pack off of Amazon for under $10.
I love TNG plants too. I can usually get away with waiting an entire month after repotting them before I need to water them for the first time. (My collection is indoor year round and I use Bonsai Jack gritty mix for my soil.) The succulent community on Reddit introduced me to the “watering on signs of thirst” idea (that is, not watering until the under part of several leaves are wrinkly or the leaves can be gently squeezed). That approach has been a game-changer for me-no more overwatered succulents, especially echeverias! 🙌
Thank you for sharing!!
Devin- “Why do I like succulents, bc they are so cute” hah that made me laugh
lol its truuueee
Thank you for reminding about these I've been meaning to pickup some but always get side tracked by other plants. Take care and God Bless
They have a great variety!
Great information thank you ❤🪴
You are so welcome
Succulents have been among my top favorite groups of plants since early childhood because no other group of plants offers such remarkable examples of perfect radial symmetry, or such sculptural esthetics. And they're "cute" because their reduced surface area as an adaptation for water conservation = stubby, bluntly rounded features, the very features that make baby animals (even many that naturally receive no parental care) appealing to us. Radially symmetrical, short leaved rosette forming succulents such as Echeverias often represent the rounded, spiral centered radially symmetrical forms that breeders of such unrelated flowers as exhibition tuberous begonias, modern roses, and gardenias, strive to achieve.
All good things have their drawbacks, and succulents quickly lose their form and the anthocyanin pigments that give many such pleasing highlights, under inadequate light, as when they are sold at supermarkets, shipped by slow transport in a dark box, or when artificial light is not provided during extended spells of dark cloudy weather. They generally have above average susceptibility to fast spreading bacterial and fungal rot. Many succulents are predisposed to rot and other disease by very humid weather. Sempervivums (hens and chicks), unlike most popular succulents are or are hybridized from alpine plants native to southern and central Europe, and thus often have very different temperature requirements from desert and semi desert succulents. My favorite in this genus, S. arachnoideum (Cobweb Houseleek), will lose many rosettes to overnight rot during hot and humid weather.
P.S. slugs and snails (particularly the tiny Bush Snails [Zonites arboreus] that also plague many orchids) not only damage succulents outdoors in the garden, they also readily stow away in the pots and containers of succulents when they are brought in for the fall.
thank you for your insight and vast plant knowledge! what part of the plant world have you worked in, because it is clear you have been in it for awhile
@@plantvibrations I'm actually a retired biologist with primary interests in birds, plants, and insects. I worked in nurseries and plant stores as an adolescent and during part of my years at university, but my interests in how nursery and house plants originate and where and how they are produced are more a result of having grown up in many different countries in Europe and East and SE Asia as well as the PNW and NE US. Few commenters on most videos for plants and animals ask about the identity of unidentified video subjects; I like to believe that any scientist would wonder first what they are, and what they are doing in the video.
During some of the years that I lived in Japan, plantings of hybrid lilies became an increasingly important and admired feature in many public gardens and parks. While the "Oriental Hybrids" were clearly descended from the native Lilium speciosum rubrum and L. auratum, the "Asiatic Hybrids" and trumpets were not. I was informed by the staff at these places that they were both hybridized and grown on a massive scale in the Netherlands, and that those I admired in bloom in Japanese parks and gardens were grown from bulbs imported from the Netherlands. Similarly, I was surprised and delighted to see mass plantings of our West Coast native Baby Blue Eyes in Hitachi Seaside Park, but these were uniformly more floriferous and vividly colored than their wild brethren. So my scientist's curiosity led me to a pattern of researching where and how the indoor and outdoor plants that delight us phytophiles originated, and ended up at the garden centers greenhouses, and websites where we purchased them.
I would like to thank you for your excellent channel, particularly for your willingness and effort in responding to the many inquires that you receive, a relative rarity among TH-cam vloggers! Failing eyesight (I've actually been nearly blind from infancy) has curtailed most of my plant related activities. It's gratifying to see many in younger generations worldwide dedicated to and encouraging long term interest in growing plants!
Nice succulents plants deven they should do really well I brought me a pink lady turtle vine succulent! Have you ever heard of it? My first time buying it hope it does very well for me. Please update.
You mean String of heart variegated? Watch out burn sun for now.
those are great plants! you will love the overflowing nature!
I've planted chics and hens in pots,can they be left out all winter? We get cold here in South western Ontario Canada 🇨🇦 plus I don't want the terracotta pots to crack. Please help lol 😆
Chics and hens succulents, they can be left outside before cold winter. You need to know whether they are hardy or soft 1st.
most sempervivum hens and chicks can handle to zone 5, potentially zone 4! if you are colder than that i recommend place in the garage during winter
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