Growing succulents from seeds
My Euphorbia obesa is flowering yet again! The flowers are tiny, especially on female plants, so I barely noticed them. I’m glad I managed to save it from whatever happened to the roots a couple of months ago.
Right now the plant is 5 cm wide and 6,5 cm tall. I think it reached the point where it starts to grow tall instead of rounder.
I think I induced blooming on my 4 year old Euphorbia obesa by fixing its roots a month ago. The feeder roots had completely disappeared, so I dipped the bare tap root in rooting hormone gel. I kept watering, but left it alone without checking if the roots grew back.
I think the plant is doing well. Only a couple of weeks after the treatment, I saw little flower buds appear on the newest growth!
These are my Euphorbia obesas first ever flowers. They’re tiny and not completely developed yet. I’ll make sure to post again when the rest of the buds bloom.
You can tell from the shape of the flowers that this plant is female.
I came in contact with the lady I traded Hoya cuttings with last summer and she told me, she lost 25 plants to soil mealy bugs in winter. I ended up giving her cuttings from the plants she gave me (+ more to kickstart her collection again) and she gave me more Hoyas I didn’t already have. She did give me something to think about as well. Maybe there was a reason why some of my plants grow so slowly.. so I unpotted all of the succulents that grew too slowly (in my opinion) and has been in contact with the cuttings she gave me. Time for a root check!
I didn’t find any bugs, aside from the occasional pot with springtails, but my Euphorbia obesa has something odd going on. There are no feeder roots! That’s probably why it hasn’t grown that much since last winter. It looks like a lot of the feeder roots on my Pseudolithos have died off, too. I still have some rooting hormone gel lying around from last time I propagated my Hoyas, so I’m going to use that to try and provoke new root growth. I mean, it can’t hurt that much, can it?
I included a bonus pic of my date palm. It’s growing slowly, but there’s nothing wrong with it. It just really looks like a leek now.
So I completely forgot about my Euphorbia obesa. There are really no news to speak of, so maybe it wasn’t that big of a disaster. I thought it stopped growing, but apparently it has grown a fair amount in the last 6 months. It still hasn’t grown any flowers for some reason.
My seed grown Euphorbia obesa is showing off its new fall colors. I love how these look when they start to “cork”. On Euphorbia obesa, the corking always shows up as a cool pattern instead of just appearing as random blobs, like on regular succulents.
My 3 year (+ 2 months) old Euphorbia obesa kind of grew out of its etiolation and is turning spherical again. It’s growing very quickly (for a succulent) right now. You can see the slight indents on top between the ribs that show how much it has grown during this growth spurt.
Right now it’s just about the size of a small tangerine.
The five obesa seedlings have finally been reunited. I decided to pot everything from the community seedling planter separately. It’s easier to control watering and now my plant setup looks more tidy.
The start of this year’s growth spurt created nice looking patterns on the surface of my little baseball plants. I’ve been worried about the tiny sun stressed seedling, but at least now it looks like it’s growing.
Everything is going smoothly in the seedling community planter. The obesas are huge and probably old enough to flower this summer.
I haven’t watered any of the seedlings in this pot all winter, but none of them are showing signs of dehydration.
These are my two biggest Obesa seedlings. They’re almost touching, so at some point I’m going to have to separate them and plant them in individual pots.
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