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. 

Late Bloomers and Early Risers

Adenium obesum "Rik Ni Ran", grafted

As the weather turned from scorching to slightly less scorching in Zone 7, this is the time most of my adeniums decided to profusely bud. This is annoying. The plants themselves are ridiculously sturdy and tolerant of temperature swings that do not include freezing. But adenium buds are sensitive as shit. 

Well. Shit.

Echevaria setosa, under T5HOs for winter. This was acquired in 2017; I don't know how this is still alive.

Here's the thing: I can't find the charger for my Nikon batteries. So, for the two of you reading this, we are going to regale you with top-quality blurred photos taken with our cellphones (are they even still called that? Smartphones?).

Eye Candy: Winter Growers

If giant tube worms can thrive in deep ocean vents, why not plants that wake up in winter, right? Nature abhors a vacuum, after all. If there is space, evolution will fill it. (Yeah, you read that right----evolution, which is real and happening right now!) So when nearly everything is slowing down for the freeze in the northern regions, these plants take over.

Nothing here but pictures!

Tylecodon ventricosus