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Hello Marck and all.
Here's a crassula lycopodioides that I got back in November last year, photographed then:
Here it is today, April, almost exactly five months later – same pot it came in. It's been growing indoors in Zone 7b, on an unobscured south-facing windowsill. I water it once it's almost dry, which was about a 12-day interval when it arrived and is now about a week. I've fertilized it alternating waterings the last month.
The good news: it grows like a weed. The bad news: sorta looks like one.
The old problem with succulents: just won't stay upright. And yet the nursery seemed to manage that when it was smaller. So the old question, about a 'new' species: Is there anything we can do by way of care and feeding to help the plant 'wood up', or 'they just do that'... they flop over, that's what they are?
If the latter, all is not lost. If nothing else, i can put it in planter with a few other kinds of succulent and have it trail over the side.
Here's a crassula lycopodioides that I got back in November last year, photographed then:
Here it is today, April, almost exactly five months later – same pot it came in. It's been growing indoors in Zone 7b, on an unobscured south-facing windowsill. I water it once it's almost dry, which was about a 12-day interval when it arrived and is now about a week. I've fertilized it alternating waterings the last month.
The good news: it grows like a weed. The bad news: sorta looks like one.
The old problem with succulents: just won't stay upright. And yet the nursery seemed to manage that when it was smaller. So the old question, about a 'new' species: Is there anything we can do by way of care and feeding to help the plant 'wood up', or 'they just do that'... they flop over, that's what they are?
If the latter, all is not lost. If nothing else, i can put it in planter with a few other kinds of succulent and have it trail over the side.