26 December 2021

 

Is This On?

Yes. Everyone is alright. There was a short but deadly blast of heat on the Eastern Seaboard this year (2021) that killed off a number of plants on this side of the blog and the other side was hit by what Knitty Kitty calls "equally deadly blast of laziness". 

Well, okay, both sides were hit by that blast. 

But it's fine. Knitty Kitty just went on a roadtrip to get some plants (I haven't seen them).  I have mesemb seedlings that are shockingly still alive. There are two surviving adenium seedlings from one of my plants that decided to go to seed indoors (!) during winter. There is an on-going experiment with frost right now---all my Cintia knizei are still outside, as well as a pot of Haworthia truncata. I'm not sure why that last one is still out there. It may have just been forgotten. And a pot of foxtail fern which I was told would not survive frost but has so far done so. smh. 

To be furthered!

No roots! Someone (me) elbowed it one day, it fell to the ground and all the roots were left in the pot. It's not dead so it must be doing something.

Tylecodon buchholzianus, now 5 years old, for continuity.

Knitty Kitty's Dama De Noche (Cestrum nocturnum). Mine is dead. Again.

25th of December 2020

 

RollingEyeballs' Pachycauls (Fat Plants, 2020 Update)

Full dislosure: fast-forward six years after I first made this post, I no longer have three pachycauls. Even excluding adeniums, I have...um...a lot. 

Knitty Kitty's Recent Hoya acquisitions

Hoya mindorensis. Threatened in the wild, this hoya was found in Mindoro Island, south of Manila, Philippines---one of the most oppressively humid places on the planet.