Much to do these days. I spend the whole day everyday in the library working on my master's thesis recently. I try to keep an eye on the plants though. Another Sulphurea is flowering, as well as the Haworthia limifolia and the Faucaria's flower is showing some yellow. Unfortunately I've discovered spider mites on my beautiful Rabiea yesterday. I've done everything they say to fight them on the internet and can only hope the damage isn't that great. All the Titanopsis plants are on hiatus, it seems, and look their best, really compact and pretty. Neohenricia is pushing flowers like crazy (and the flowers don't smell nice after all). Delosperma drops its leaves every evening from the sun and the heat and revives every morning. Frithia seeplings have grown their second leaves, so cute. I'll take and post pictures as soon as I have more time. For now, here is the huge and lovely Crassula rupestris. It provides a welcome shade.
My one and only lithops has died. Now have to decide whether to try again or its that the conditions I can offer are simply not right.
ReplyDeleteYou can't say anything about your conditions after having killed only ONE lithops. I've killed dozens of them ;) Try growing them from seed. If you have at least 50 plants (it's not that many, ca. 3 5x5cm pots with seedlings) you can tell if they like it at your place or not. Some of them will die, but it really doesn't matter. The strongest will make it.
DeleteGood luck with your Thesis Rika! Hope your Lithops don't miss you too much when you're away at the library. Touch wood with the spider mites. I feel confident that everything should be fine if you've done everything recommended online. The Crassula looks wild! Looking forward to seeing the Frithia updates. Ciao! :)
ReplyDeleteThank you! :) Still lots to do...
DeleteThe Rabiea will probably survive but it's damaged badly at several growing points (all happened in only one day!), really sad. Interestingly no other plant shows any mites, well, all the better :)
Yes, good writings! It is a mentally exhausting exercise keeping all the factoids in a straight line...Luckily succulents can look after themselves for a bit, without issue! LT
ReplyDeleteThanks LT :) True. Digging through all the facts is enough to drive one to despair.
DeleteI try to look through my plants at least once a day, especially at this heat and (apparently) bug danger.
Beautiful! Good luck on your thesis, I'm sure you'll succeed!
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, spider mites are horrible, and hard to get rid of. The biggest problem here is scale, but they are a little easier to remove than mites. Sadly, they really disfigure succulents.
Thank you Marla! :) I hope so!
DeleteYeah... Th Rabiea doesn't look good but oh well. I'd be glad if it survives and then just hope it will grow back nicely. (I'm not sure if the growing points got damaged along with leaves)