In the beginning when god created the heavens and the earth... I wonder if it looked like this?
This is the reason I love autumn. Autumn also known as fall marks the transition
from summer to winter. From hot to cold. The days get shorter, the temperature cools down.
This is also the season where some succulents show its best color.
Hello there, my name is Liz. A self-confessed succulent addict. Welcome to my channel growing succulents.
A dry summer and dry autumn has brought on the colors on these succulents.
During a wet summer and wet autumn, these succulents will mostly be green or pale in color.
Autumn would have to be the best time of the year for bringing out the colors in succulents.
That's when the colors are at its most intense.
These are a few of my favorite plants.
Sedeveria Letizia.
That red one there and also this other one here. This is also Sedeveria letizia. That was my original plant.
I took cuttings from that and now have grown this one. So that's probably about two and a half years old.
And this one would be about over a year old;
and I love it so much that I went and bought another plant.
So now, I'm growing them and propagating them.
And the colors doesn't look like this throughout the year.
It's only during autumn when they show their true beauty.
Because i think the cold activates the color.
This will have to be my most favorite spot in my backyard garden.
Because this is where i keep all the pretty uh plants in the pretty pots supposedly.
So that one is still a pretty pot it's terracotta,
but it's got a pretty pretty echeveria a mestro in it.
Belladonna, Rajoya. Echeveria Rajoya and Melaco.
So now I can see the color of the melaco.
So this is only about a year and a half.
So I only started with this plant 16 months ago.
Now I already have a lot of babies from it and this one is... I'm getting distracted.
Echeveria Red Top.
Well actually to be honest, I did not have a label for this one when I got this.
Most of the time, it's already this color.
So the color stays like that say 10 months a year.
It turns a little bit green for a couple of months of the year, but the rest of the time it's just this color.
It's just beautiful. So that's different color from that rajoya and also a maestro.
But then the same red tone.
And watering wise, I watered them as much as they needed.
So the minute I feel that the leaves are getting soft,
I give them some water. Well I mostly water overhead with a hose.
So I water them from the top.
The pots that are like this,
they can't really get water into the roots;
and so what I do with this, I'll take the whole pot and soak it overnight.
And then drain it, and put it back on its place.
So this is how I water most of them.
So most of them are overhead watering with the hose,
and the ones that I can't get to of course as I've explained...
Is I dunked them and soaked them.
This one is no soaking because this is quite heavy and it's quite a big pot.
So this one receives overhead watering.
This is a colorado fa lindsayana.
This is a Echeveria Setora.
That's what the name when I purchase it,
but I'm just doing some research and apparently it could be a Echeveria Set Oliver.
So to me right now, this is a Setora.
This one is a Echeveria agavoides Victor Reiter.
Victor Reiter has different forms.
It comes in different colors.
So if I'm going to spin around slowly over here on the other side,
Now this one is an echeveria agavoides victor Reiter as well.
And look at the color.
The intensity of the color is just beautiful.
This is a three-year-old Schichi-kuksi.
I'm not sure if it's the same plant,
as the raspberry ice that people are telling me.
A friend of mine says that it's not Schichi-kuksi.
Well the label says schichi-kuksi,
so I'm sticking to the label schichi-kuksi.
It's a bit of a tongue twister but anyway...
Beautiful beautiful plant and very frost hardy
and i don't have any pest issues with it as well.
And then water it when...
When I remember and if I don't remember to water it...
I can see some dry leaves on the edges starting to show,
then that sort of tells me as well that it needs some water, and then I water it.
This is a three-year-old Echeveria glow sport.
One of my most favorite plant because of the color...
And also the structure.
And also the firmness. The texture it's just sort of rough a little bit to touch.
The surface of the leaves...
But otherwise,
it is a beautiful plant and it has become frost hardy,
and heat resistant.
So now I'm gonna say that all these plants are now exposed to the sun and the frost,
and hail and shine.
And lucky this year we had some hail storm,
but it missed our area.
So I'm very grateful for that.
So this is my oldest Echeveria Mexican giant.
And look at all the babies. Lots of babies.
I've actually pulled off a couple as well to propagate.
This Othonna Capensis...
The ruby necklace... Look how nice and plump,
and delicious looking they are.
See even this one on the other side here,
look at that. It's like grapes.
They're quite fat. Look.
Well the leaves has gone really really chubby.
The Haworthias...
The Haworthia's out in the sun. They go all red.
And the soil that i use for this one is the same one,
as my master soil mix.
My succulent Master soil mix.
So look at the colors of the Echeveria pulvinata.
Bronze. Sedum bronze.
That one is Sedum Golden goddess.
So it's looking very goldy and goddessy.
Goddess like.
Aeonium smithii.
Is gonna stay here;
but this is actually..
We had rain two days ago,
and look it's dry.
So it's a little bit heavy.
So there's still some moisture into it.
Now this Graptopetalum marinae. Look how cute it is.
It's just beautiful.
And Echeveria Raindrops.
Got lots of pretty pretty pretty colors. See look at that.
And the orthona capensis. This is how it should normally look.
But if grown into the right condition...
It can grow like the ones I've shown you earlier.
Now this echeveria violet queen here...
You can see it's got more red tips being exposed to the sun.
It's pretty healthy and it's got all this baby.
So it's formed a cluster.
Echeveria Maruba benitsukasa. Look at the bumps.
Isn't that gorgeous look at them bumps.
Beautiful... And the color.
This would have to be one of my favorite favorite plants,
Because of the color I love red.
That's all for this video.
I hope you've enjoyed my colorful succulents.
Thank you so much for watching,
and hope to see you on my next video
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