Succulents: the sci-fi looking, chubby-leafed, delicately bizarre plants I want to grow lots of

Any tips on growing them? Any favorite kinds? I got my friend a Pachypodium lamerei and it is one of those gifts that was hard to give because I wanted to keep it for myself.

http://www.florasuculenta.com/Apocynaceae/Pachypodium/Images/pachypodium_lamerei_00.jpg

My favorite is hen-and-chicks.

http://echelonflorist.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/061008_henand.jpg

Our neighbor gave us four in a handful of dirt one day when she was repotting them, and within six months I had 20 small pots full of them, making babies like crazy.

One CRAZY reproducing one that I want lining my yard if I ever buy a house is "mother of millions" – when I google it a bunch of Austalian weed control sites come up, lol.

http://www.magnetictimes.com.au/images/uploads/weeds-mother-of-millions-Bryophyllum-species.jpg

Saw this cool idea online today: upside-down hanging basket covered w/different seedums

http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/cc/65/10/cc65106e4d16cd570cdd7d26e32d549d.jpg

I have some red spike ice plants that are in bloom right now and it's about the best damn thing ever

http://www.bandbcactus.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Red-Spike.jpg

I have a lovely Christmas Cactus which blooms Nov-Dec and makes my kitchen colourful in the winter.

Also, JADE TREES (or jade plants). They are amazing, beautiful, and pretty easy to grow if you have a sunny windowsill.

it is hard to be a succulent right now, i think
i have this little guy
& all of his arms feel kind of sink-pasta-bloated, like they are just trying to make it through the winter all swollen
all of the smaller stems shedding a couple of months back

they're lovely plants though! the waxiness. waxiness is probably the most desirable plant characteristic, for me.

hen-&-chicks so beautiful, wmc

https://scontent-a-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t1.0-9/p403x403/1506620_10151941744821428_200228313_n.jpg

did dis planter

A fun thing abt succulents is trading cuttings with coworkers/friends. It's like having a sticker collection again.

Check it out, it's the penis plant:
http://www.cactus-art.biz/schede/TRICHOCEREUS/Trichocereus_bridgesii/Trichocereus_bridgesii_mostruosa_B/Trichocereus_inemis_mostruosus_inemis_B_penis_cactus.htm

It's also hallucinogenic, I guess, not that I want to eff around with playing dingdong erowid diy sucker

I just like that a plant bred to be shaped like a dick and open your third eye is legal in our good old you ess of eh

the penis plant looks a bit like it's making the 'this facial expression' expression

https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/t1.0-9/p526x296/10274093_10152002197796428_4547877526246740624_n.jpg

Here is mine, in front of another cactus that just happens to look like a dick, but in a more ouchy way. Also I have a red and white Euphorbia milii, aka crown of thorns, aka the satanic plant that helped murder Christ. Ok.

My new TEE-TINY prickly pear. *so kawaii*

https://scontent-b-lax.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/t1.0-9/10343518_10152088936581428_9143347840341242402_n.jpg

y'are awesome crabbits but until my hands are free of microscopic foreign bodies that may or may not give me dermatitis for the next few weeks/months, every prickly pear ever can fuck off and wilt imo

your fault not the prickly pears'

let a man lash out

while he still has working hands

long as you don't hurt dem pears

taking out my contact lenses was probably the most hair-raising thing I've done in a long time

I plucked one pear, the plant itself was enormous & its wound will have sealed already - I, however, have met Comeuppance

the flesh inside looked tasty and I do wish I had managed to pry it apart enough to eat it - the cosmos might have been in balance that way

y'are

welcome to the world of glochids

were you eating nopales or the fruit ("tuna")?

Crabbits, you inspired me to get a couple more hen & chicks early this summer. One of them was in the process of having offspring all over the place, so now I have 16 or so.

I love them! Glad yours is prolific.

One of those things that thrives in pots but doesn't do well in the ground for me.

What succulents could you reasonably grown *outside* in a UK garden?

there's a list of hardy types and lits of other good advice at https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=849

your vas-cu-lar com-po-nent

Feel like I could have lots of fun (aka buy loads) here:

https://surrealsucculents.co.uk/ [Yes, I watched Gardener's World last night].

Am also fond of here:

https://www.craftyplants.co.uk/

And here (for my Lithop needs):

http://www.abbeybrookcacti.com/

Weird. Managed to salvage a succulent that (strangely) had been covered in glitter and made into a Christmas card ... It had seemed happy but now it just seems to be rotting away.

(Probably an echeveria).

Probably over-watering it.

Yeah, that would have been my guess but am pretty restrained.

Poorly draining soil?

Maybe. Just seems odd that it recovered from being a novelty plant and is now struggling. Perhaps without realising I've started to give it too much "care".

Ditto the Lithops/Conophytum on the windowsill ... Can't decide if they're "shedding" or just rotting away.

I killed the only lithops I've owned by over-watering (found out later). I've heard that when new "leaves" are coming out the center don't water at all.

Outer leaves wrinkle up naturally on their way out, if they're not mushy it's probably OK.

Have finally accepted that the echeveria (?) is a goner. It has most crumbled. Irritated with myself - it presumably was over-watering.

In general with succulents they'll let you know when they need water, and will be totally recoverable. They'll also let you know when they've been over-watered, and will be almost totally non-recoverable. So err on the side of under-watering.