It's time for the succulent arrangement here to have a drink.
So I haven't watered this for a long, long, long, long, long time.
And also need to clean it all up.
This is a cactus.
This cactus is called Gymnocalycium.
Okay,(chuckles) so this cactus has been growing in this pot for the last four years.
I'm gonna tip it out.
Look! Yes, it doesn't have any holes.
Hello there my name is Liz.
A self-confessed succulent addic.
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This is a beautiful Sempervivum.
This Sempervivum or Semper-vivum
Mother and chicks or Hens and chicks, has been growing in this pot...
Look how beautiful that is. Red like burgundy.
It's like really dark maroon color.
So it's been growing in this pot for the last three years.
It's all dry.
Needs to be watered and yep. You guess it right.
No holes.
So no holes anywhere.
Okay? So this one has been growing out here in the open.
And of course this arrangement after cleaning it up because it was a little bit messy a while ago.
So it's dry and it needs some water.
So you can see i already cleaned up the inside of it well sort of.
Quickly. And this is quite a big arrangement. and I've got a Echeveria Pumila,
also known as Secunda.
Hens and chicks, mothers and chicks because it's got lots of babies.
And also I've got Sedum Morganianum or Jelly beans.
This is just the green one.
Rubrotinctum. Sorry Morganianum is Burro's tail.
okay? This is Rubrotinctum or jelly beans.
So the green version and then now it's gone like all red.
Look at that. Beautiful. And this one is also red. What do you call that?
Crassula ovata. I'm just looking at the spider look just a little spider there.
I'm sorry there you go. okay.
Now this is Crassula ovata. I think ladies fingers, this one.
So this is not Gollum. So anyway, so there's two types of Crassula.
Three types of Crassula now. This is a Crassula Tom Thumb.
Little cute one and it's actually flowering.
And look. That one is already grown from a leaf that little sedum there.
But this has been in this arrangement for almost four years.
It is really, really dry okay?
So the soil just so you say,
not pulling your leg or anything.
So the soil is like look at that.
See that's really dry soil.
I really want to put another plant in here,
but I'm just going to insert something very special here.
Sedeveria or Sedum Canny Hinny I think this one.
So I think it's just green normally.
So this, I've got my Canny Hinny sort of coloring up somewhere over there.
But I'm just gonna take this out. And this is just grown in coco peat. Okay?
So I'm gonna insert my little plant here.
That is grown in coco peat and I'm just inserting it okay.
Look I'm lifting.
Lifting and if the leaves falls off, it doesn't matter because they will grow.
Then you'll just end up with more plants or actually I'll end up with more plants because,
see all those leaves falling off? we throw that in there.
Come here. Look I'll use that little bit of granite to block you off and
that's all. Now I'm going to water it. If you live in an apartment
or you have a small space and you can't have anywhere to grow succulents or cactus
in a pot with a hole. Or you want to grow them in little cute mugs or something like that.
So I have a mug that I'm attached to; recently it had a little chip.
So I didn't really want to throw it away.
But I drilled holes with it in it to use it for my succulents.
But say for example i don't want to drill holes in it.
I can still grow cactus and succulents in it without having to drill holes.
Just like this one here. So this one has been growing in here for almost five years now.
Actually. So because I, this is one of the first ones i had in 2016 and it's 2021 now.
So it's about four and a half years that has been growing in this pot with no hole.
But then when you do water it or when i do water it...
How do you water a succulent or a cactus?
In this case which is quite delicate in watering sense.
Because you can over water it.
Here is how i water my cactus and my succulents that's grown in a pot with no holes.
So this one i'm just going to establish the fact that it's really really dry,
oh it's actually i actually i forgot i watered this yesterday.
There you go so it's a little bit moist.
Now this one now, I'm going to show you how to water this even though I already watered it.
okay?
I'm using my seaweed solution here.
So I'm just really gonna saturate it.
okay... It's overflowing.
That is now a lot of water. okay?
So what do you do if you have a lot of water like that?
Simples.
You get a little turkey baster.
So you can suck the water out.
Or first of all you can just tip it out.
There you go. That's much easier and then if you're worried that they're sitting in water,
although this plant actually this cactus here Gymnocalycium mihanovichii,
it loves water; but of course it doesn't like to be sitting in water.
So now we have to remove the water.
You can still see that there's still water pooling there.
So you can't really get to the bottom of that. So what you do is you insert your turkey baster there,
and okay ready?
There you go so you just suck the water out and all the dirt.
I'm just gonna tip it out here because it's convenient.
See look at all the water?
There you go. So ideally you can just give it some water, but it's really difficult to tell i know.
So that's why it's best having a turkey baster. So now if i tip this over on the side i can still see
a little bit of water sort of pooling in there. So I'm going to continue sucking all the water
the muddy water. There you're going to tip it in my garden here.
You get the idea okay? Until you're happy with the amount of water. So in that's, in this case here,
oops. Okay I'm already happy with that, so that's it. Just move that and then if the
soil sort of recedes like that, you can top it up and put some soil. Now this one here
is the same thing. So because I've had this for a long time here now, I can already gauge how much
water i need to put in. But in case I over water it.
Now you know the trick. So I just use my baster. So that pumila here or secunda is really really dry,
and i water the whole thing. I mean the leaves as well. I spray them just give them good hosing down.
So they're having a bath
and also, I can tell from the weight how much water it has.
So that's it. So this, this pot here. This big pot here I watered this about four times a year.
And it's always when I see that the leaves are all going soft
and that one is all going red right now because it's autumn here. But they do get afternoon sun.
So but it's in the shade. So that's also even though it's out here you can grow something
like this indoors as long as you put it somewhere... place it somewhere near a window where it can get
a lot of light and you will have beautiful colored succulents. so it's now end of April.
so you've got may, June, July, august and September. I'll see you in September when winter is gone.
oh there you go. now she's gonna sit there. look at that beautiful.
now this baby here this sempervivum. Semper-vivum, there's a little bit of opening in
the corner here, so i can water it from there. So normally sempervivum doesn't mind being watered.
And they actually like being water and even if they get bogged, they don't care. So,
you can kill your sempervivum by not watering it. But over watering doesn't seem to hurt them.
okay and you can see nothing. No holes no dripping. No whatever and that's it folks. And that's how you
grow succulents in a pot with no holes. I need a new one. This is already 12 years old and look?
already taping it together holes. So and look it's already worn out. So I need a new
Hozelock.