This is my breakfast.
I just pop it in microwave on defrost for one minute and 10 seconds.
This is sticky date and butterscotch Easter bun.
Look how nice that is. oh, look at those dates there and
then that dates probably and raisin.
It's so good. and I use butter, because butter is better.
Brekky, brekky(breakfast), okay. See how it's nice and soft. Nice and soft.
And when you bite into it... Don't even have to chew it.
uhmmm. okay. Let's go outside.
Look at some succulents.
I'm gonna go take my coffee and my Easter bun. (Singing)
I haven't shown you my mess for a while now.
But anyway... I wonder if this Venus fly trap's gonna die.
Hey, you're not getting enough food and look it's not even closing it's trap.
Oh apparently, they will eat twice. Look there's a fungus gnats. Lok at that.
Trying to get inside there and it's been going round and round,
round and round. Where'd you go now?
You're gone. Now. oh it's still there.
Why can't it have a little sap or sugar, so the gnats will stay in there.
See this one has got a few, but it's not closing it.
Beats me how it works. But anyway, oh the other one. I'll show you the other one.
See this other one here? It's curling up.
So does it mean it's gonna die?
Or it's about to engulf everything.
I've been watering it and it's sucking up all the water,
but what's most interesting with this one,
is the moss. I love the moss. Look at the moss.
Aren't they gorgeous?
And hang on. Look!
Gnats everywhere.
But anyway, look. My experimentations. That's intentional.
So these are very hardy growing...
That's my belladonna that I head chopped.
And then now, I put it there and have been t-o-r-t-u ring
Giving it a hard time. Like that's what I've been doing with my plants. Look!
See all the whatchamacallit.
Has been drying up, but oh. Hang on.
Show you. This is grow all grown from a leaf. okay.
So this, this container here, and then...
The reason why all the soil is sort of coming away from the sides is because,
I've been keeping it dry to get rid of the fungus gnats.
But anyway, it's good for the plants anyway.
But what happens with the plant as well,
if you water them too much, they will rot.
If you don't water them, they rot.
So damn if you do, and damn if you don't.
And the lavender pebbles,
this is grown from a leaf from last year.
And I brought it inside, because we've been having too much rain outside,
and I thought maybe it might not appreciate the rain and,
oh poor thing. Got attacked by fungus gnats and look what happened to it. I kind of like the tip.
Because it's so round.
Look. If only they all grow like that. You know it's like,
one of those Chinese women, whose feet has been bound.
I don't know if you've heard of that.
There's Chinese women that's like 100 years old,
whose feet were bound.
One of my grandmother was actually, we call it Pakha, in the Philippines.
Her feet were bound when she was little, and I've been told so that stops her
from running away. But it's apparently it's a beauty thing. But anyway, so my, my grandmother...
My father's mother, has had her feet bounded.
Can you believe that. But anyway,
that's probably why my feet is so small. No I don't. I got big feet.
Medium size. Anyway. A lot of these plants now has been put through the wringer.
I have been experimenting on them.
And my white Nicksana is still alive, and
it's actually going green. I can see some green spots there.
So it's beautiful, but that's all damage from the fungus gnats.
Plus every time, okay. My hands is dry and this is what I do.
I'm gonna get it wet. So my hands is now wet.
So it's got a little bit of detergent or dishwashing liquid.
And then, I would tap like this,
and I'm gonna look for gnats, gnats, gnats. Oh there's one here.
See look. Stick to my hand.
That has been my daily exercise.
Ah look!
Where you going?
But anyway, I'm supposed to just do a vlog video.
I'll do a fungus gnats video later on.
And those are moth balls.
And okay, I'm going to give you a tip now.
I've noticed that when I use moth balls,
or put moth balls on the plant...
That stops the,
So look on my hand.
The fungus gnats, because I killed off one of its maybe cousin or brother,
or something like that and they have a GPS scent tracker.
It seems like they will keep going back to the same soil where they were born.
It's like a salmon you know the fish, when they're born,
they travel thousands of miles away from where they were hatched,
and their mothers lay their eggs
and then their hatch, and of course their little baby salmon,
and then they go all over the world.
I don't know where they go.
Before they die, they will lay their eggs.
So I don't know how long the cycle.
A year or two or something like that but anyway.
It's not very long. Short.
And then they will travel through the same course that they were born in.
And die.
Die from exhaustion.
Okay basically,
but they lay their eggs and then they die.
Anyway, so it's something like that. The gnats have,
they're like a homing device that or a homing scent.
So if I put moth balls, I notice that it disrupts their scent,
or tricks their scent and then they go crazy. They don't know where to go.
And then they end up in my trap here.
My sticky paper. Look. The sticky paper here. Come follow me. Look at that.
So it doesn't really matter whether it's a yellow one or a white one.
And this one actually, I've had less gnats now;
because this one this trap, normally it's like one week before, that is just covered.
You won't even see any white patch in there.
And this one has been in here for about two weeks now.
So I'm making progress with my gnat experiments.
Gnats, gnats. Anyway, oh hang on. This one. Look!
It's about to die. This is my Echeveria sagita variegata.
I have a couple of plants that does this.
One of them is a Pulidonis that I noticed. Look it's already drying. But this one is grown from a leaf.
And then see the only one.
So I've already taken that.
I've actually shown this one in one of my vlog videos.
okay that's the flower already,
and it had pink flowers and so I just left it.
I just want to see if it will grow and it does.
See it's got aphids, I think at one stage.
And look! There's a baby plant growing.
So if you just leave it. It will grow.
And then, where the flower came from,
if you take that off
or I take that off,
that will grow into another baby plant.
That will hopefully don't grow flower.
okay so now, whether this one will continue to be flowering or not,
I think that's a proper plant now.
Then this one, this is a Crassula one of those money maker things.
And then variegated. This one now it's just such a prolific grower. Look at that.
And all those marks, because I've been wetting my hand, I'm doing my gnat exercise.
And then I would stir them up like this. I would shake it off,
and then they would jump around and I would just go,
See look. There's some remnants of gnats.
Different things. But anyway, this one has got a little mealybug.
But that's probably already dead.
This is uh, what are you? Pudgy. oh no. It's not.
It's a sand. Sand from when I watered this. It just dropped there I thought it's mealybug.
Surprised, there's no mealybug at the moment. Look at the gnats.
Because oopsie.
I'm trying all different sorts of experiment with the gnats.
But anyway, as I said. It's already, video later on.
Also yeah. I want to show you this.
This from one leaf.
From one leaf, look at that.
So this is actually grown from two leaves.
So there's this one and then there's that one there.
So this is actually Echeveria Lily.
There's three. One, two, three. Three leaves.
And that one there, so this one let's pull this out.
Look!
Look at all that cluster there. A one!
I can see, one, two, one two three four five.
One leaf, five plants.
okay so you got five plants, which look at that. Hi, isn't it gorgeous. Beautiful.
It's not a crested, it's a cluster.
So now, if I remove all that leaf again,
these tiny little things again, and I just drop it there.
Or this one is what are you?
These are Echeveria colorata fa. Lindsayana.
Anyway, this one I'm repotting that. Okay.
So, can you believe that?
And also look. this one is a Echeveria Purpusorum red.
Look how beautiful that is.
oh gorgeous. It's a Purpusorum.
But anyway. And the mother plant wasn't that red.
And yet that one is one leaf. Look. One leaf.
One leaf grown from one leaf. One, two, three, four and you can see the leaf dried up.
I really have to separate this and look.
yeah beautiful. And then you can see that's the leaf there.
okay and four plants. Isn't that gorgeous.
Should I put it in the same pot or should I separate them?
yeah let's do a separating video.
How to separate cluster.
Yes we'll do that okay? So also this one, because this is Echeveria Paris.
Over here I need to remove that Paris one there,
Because again, it's the same thing. It's got one, two, three cluster.
So this one, more Lily here,
and Ellen over here.
That one is Graptoveria Margaret Rose. And this one,
Echeveri Unguiculata. This thing when I got it, Kanya gave it to me. Thank you Kanya. Look at your
Unguiculata. it's all nice and plump now.
It was like really dry. I mean, I kid you not, it's like all wrinkled.
More wrinkled than this. Like this. It was like this when she gave it to me. Now look at it.
It's all plump up. So now,
I have one Unguiculata.
Now I have another one. So the one I've got is sort of a hybrid.
It's got really white like grey color.
okay another one, I'm gonna show you this.
I was supposed to go outside but I just remembered I need, I haven't done this area for a while so...
I thought I'll give you an update. Now this one here is called Echeveria Studebaker. This is how cray-cray(crazy)
these plants are, This is also Studebaker. Can you believe that? it looks like an Echeveria Chihuahuaensis.
I love wondering what would happen if I put this plant in here with the fungus gnats,
will they survive? See watching too much sesame street when I was a little girl. okay okay now...
When I was a little girl,
I we, didn't get tv until I was I think 11 years old.
So anyway I wasn't little anymore.
Anyway, studebaker look at that. And can you see that one is colorata?
See Echeveria colorata fa. Lindsayana.
Studebaker. And the same plant, because I only have one Studebaker.
This study baker is unreal.
I mean unreal bad. And I'll tell you why later on. And then that's studebaker.
Now I can't, I don't have space here,
but look. Compare the two.
Compared to two. I'm like one of those superannuation commercials.
Compared to two. One has got lots of babies, the other one hasn't
been putting his superannuation in. And look what happened. It's gone fat and there was two of them.
There's that other one and of course, because I was doing my experimentation with the gnats and
that rotted and died. But it's still growing again. So you can see that sort of anyway, Studebaker.
This is the only plan. When I bought it I paid 22 dollars for like a big plant and it's got a couple
of babies in it. and then it grew and grew and grew, and then I ended up with like five and then all of
a sudden just out of the blue, the whole lot just rotted. Root rotted for no reason. There was no
rain or nothing. He just decided to die. And when it died, I was able to save some leaves but only
one plant grew from all the leaves. So they're all rotted and die.
And then that one plant, this is now three years later or maybe three and a half.
And then that one leaf grew into a big mature plant again.
And I was able to propagate it,
and after I propagated it,
It decided to die again.
And then I'm left with one plant and then that one plant done the same thing again.
Like every year it's just this ritual of growing and dying.
But it's only with the studebaker.
And I don't understand that.
There's also another plant. Echeveria Gaya outside done the same thing.
Nice big plant only wonder with the Gaya, this is what I notice.
When they have babies, you try and separate them,
They don't like to be separated from their babies. I think they have an open wound and then they decide that's it.
I have an open wound. You cut me, now I'm dead. Anyway, so this one I'll go one two
three four five they're all separated because, all I've been doing is that again. So another one.
So I think this is the only way I could grow this plant. Although it looks very similar to Chihuahuaensis,
See I'm already propagating right before your very eye. Okay so, because that's gonna grow again.
Because the soil is dry as well. I've been keeping them all dry. So the gnats, I'm gonna get
one leaf from each plant,
and then that way I'm forming a strain.
So you go here stude.
And we'll do the same one. So anyway guys, I think my chit chatting is already long,
and we still didn't go outside. Maybe I'll do the next video outside.
Because I've got something magnificent to show you outside. But anyway guys, that's all for now and
my Rosularis, I have one plant it's still outside. These are all grown from inflorescence leaves and
there's a mealybug. Because look. See the mealybug there. So it pays to just check your plants.
There you go. That's a mealybug. That's now oh blood. I got mealybug blood. Look! There's another baby
mealybug running. And Eco Pest. I prefer to use my Eco pest especially inside where there's no bees.
Because I like my eco pest oil. That's it. That's what I use. I do use the metho as well.
And I only did the metho just so those of you who can't get hold of eco pest oil can have something
to use to kill your meal bugs and your fungus. Although I still use the metho solution for the fungus.
Or the mold and powdery mildew that's what I use.
But for mealybug and aphids, well aphids I use soap my ant solution.
I also, that's what I use for aphids and for mealybug I like to use this one.
Although on root mealybug, I prefer to use my metho. Just all this information is just too much.
It's just my head hurts.
And then this, one my Graptoveria Purple Dream is getting bigger now. Look at that. And then I already put some bridesmaids. Those are Bernalense that's variegated. Grown from a
leaf. Anyway guys, that's all for now and I'll see you on the next video. Bye bye.
MyAeonium Sieboldii is flowering. Are you sieboldii or Aicroyson or something. Aicroyson bethencoutianum.