My name is Kat and I am the owner of Fern Farm Plants, a small nursery in Australia growing and selling succulents. Through these videos i will be sharing tips on how to grow & care for succulents. All the plants featured in the videos are our own succulents.
My nursery was established over 8 years when i gave up an office job to take over a 5 acre nursery growing foliage plants for the florist industry. Since then the business has evolved to raise succulents (and other plants) and sell them online, at the local markets and florists. Now my nursery is at the back of our large property, complete with over 30 000 succulents.
Succulent Growing Tips was established to help people understand succulents and share my experience growing these amazing plants.
for me the only thing that works on large infestations is submerging the plant, pot and all, in a soapy water mixture for a few hours and drowning the pests. although for a plant of that size you’d probably have to fill a bathtub just to be able to submerge the whole thing 😢
My succulents are huge..i started out w/ only 4 in one decent size pot…I ended up moving & haven’t had time to tend to them. Today I started repotting & cuttings but I’m so lost b/c they’re sooo many & overgrown..I’m going to watch more videos & hopefully get it right. All my other plants are wonderful
Just want to reiterate what i said in the video, in case there is any confusion. Romeo is a mutation of another Echeveria. Mutations happen in the wild as well as in cultivation. If this mutation of Romeo happened in the wild rather than a nursery (cultivation), it would probably die because it is susceptible to disease and doesn't reproduce very well. Additionally, 'bad' mutations in nature don't tend to survive very long and are subject to natural selection. 🙂
Both are lovely specimens! I have both of them in my backyard. I love how they both pup so easily. I bought them both about 3 years ago as single heads and they now both have around 5-7 heads now. While I was replenishing the succulent soil and re mounding my succulent bed, I decided to cut one head off off of each to create an succulent arrangement with these 2 echeveria. I will see how long they can stay in the pot before they outgrow the pot.
Thank you for another really informative video. I wouldn’t mind another red succulent but I’ll be giving Romeo a miss thanks to this video as I don’t have time for fussy succulents. In the past, I’ve wasted energy mothering the difficult ones when I should have just thrown them into the bin. 🤣
Oh, same! If they can't handle being outside in all weather I don't bother😅I'm planning on doing a 'Grow this instead' video for the difficult succulents and offering up alternatives. There are a few red/pink plants that kinda, sorta look like Romeo but are easier. Surprisingly, Echeveria Pink Champagne, which is a Romeo hybrid, grows super well for me, even in the rain.😀
My friend planted one of my romeos on the ground and the rest of my potted romeos died. That one is still going and it gets above 100 F and below freeezing here. Romeo is beautiful but there are new cultivars with Red that don't die easy. I would never get Romeo again.
It's so interesting how they seem to be kind of ok planted in the ground. I have a few 'trouble makers' in the garden and they're all doing ok! But i agree with you, it's not worth it when they are like this, shame they're so pretty 😅
The famous... or infamous Romeo. So beautiful, but such a drama queen/king. I guess thats a reason for the name too 😄 Thank you for this video. Not sure if I'll ever run across one of these in my region, but always love learning more about succulents. Broadening the knowledge helps a ton with understanding other variants of the specie too.
Hehe, i'd say the latter. Such a drama king😅 So glad the video was useful, though, if you see one and you really really like it, and have an undercover spot, it is a really nice plant to own...🙂
I love your sense of humor regarding these crazy plants. I am a novice succulent student and although not in Australia, find your posts VERY helpful. Thanks!
I can't grow the enceneva cactus. The bottom leaves die from moisture in the soil. I have tried to grow one with no dirt under bottom leaves. . Those are so pretty they look like roses I really want to be able to grow those can you give me any suggestion on how to not kill these plants thank you so much in advance really appreciate you
I do have a couple of videos on how to care for them and one specific video about repotting. I'll link them below. When potting them up, you can expose a bit of the root ball above the soil level so the leaves are not touching any dirt. You can also put larger stones on top of the potting mix and make sure they are also underneath the leaves, so there is a barrier between them. Hope this helps :) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8sejSNqQyBM.htmlsi=Jhz-2_qu4UTQhQRa ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OIEsT5ZuKN0.htmlsi=L9mmFgTvGEHR6zDd
@@SucculentGrowingTips thank you so so much I just adore those little cactuses they look like roses or fancy flowers I've been keeping my eye on them for a long time thank you for the help
These plants are difficult to grow in certain areas.. I have 1....still in the nurseruy pot..in my house near a window to get sunlight. I havent water since i bought it a week ago. I dont use tap water. If it dies i wont but another one. I'm sticking with my cacti
When I saw this video in my notifications last night I thought, Great! a video about mixed succulents. She's read my mind! ... then I remember making the comment 🤦♀
One of my favourite plants and first succulents I started growing. Its alien-esque appearance was such a alluring draw to me, had to have one. Since then, the succulent bite got me good 😁
I've found that I really love the Graptoveria species so much! Beautiful pastel like colours that come from their leaves. Thank you for educating me on this plant even more 😁
I would love to see a video about ceropegia stapiliformis! I have one, it grows and flowers like crazy, more than three feet this year!!! I'm not kidding. It also uses flower traps. I love this plant but there's not a whole lot of love for it out there. Subscribed!
Thank you! Just started growing one of these. I would absolutely love if you told the names of the varieties. I think mine is a very small-headed one:)
I can't grow plant that looks like a flower ennecva ? Sp. . If dirt touches the under leaves to get mushy so do I need to keep the dirt totally away from the bottom of the plant because I've learned that if the door is damp or wet and it touches any of the bottom leaves in no time there are mushy in the plant is not survive can you give me any insight on what I need to do?. Thank you so much
Oh! Second question! I have a portulacaria afra and leaves on one side of the pot are all wrinkled and the other side is totally fine. So I don't know whether to water or not water :-/
Hmmm 🤔 I can think of a couple of things but it's a bit difficult to advise without knowing more info. Is it outside or inside? Could the branch/side that is shrivelled be damaged somewhere down the line? Portulacaria afra is, in my experience, not prone to water related issues so, if the potting mix is dry, i would water regardless of what the leaves look like.
I have a question... I see these bowls that people sell with a variety of different succullents in an arrangement and I am wondering how you water them when each of them has different needs?
Kat has a video on assembling arrangements. From memory sun loving and shade loving was the main reason for separating them. But I do put my chubby succulents that need less water separate from my thin leaf ones.
Sometimes I purchase the big pots like you've mentioned. Sometimes there are so many plants for a great price. I take it home and disassemble it to make sure the arrangement contains plants that have the same water and sun needs.
As mentioned, many times the arrangements have a mixture of sun & shade loving or they contain some that do better with less frequent watering. You just need to distinguish what to keep in the bowl & what to repot. I’ve just put a bowl together a week ago with leftover cuttings but made sure to only include the ones that have a similar watering schedule. I find the smaller/daintier leafed sedums & thin leafed echeverias require frequent watering so I always pot them up separately.
A great way to start the day. Thanks you for the video. Its definitely a question I came across this week, as I repotted some plants I got from a homegrower. Many of the plant leaves were yellow and looked clearly overwatered. So after repotting, I kept an eye on them after removing the old leaves. Some of the new leaves are shriveling, and yellowing. And its a hard balance for me to understand when it is overwatering, or when it is adjusting, or underwatering. This video helps me a bit in understanding it more, with these examples, I might be able to accurately pinpoint the issue. 😁 Not sure if you have covered this in detail before, but is there a difference in how you treat a plant after repotting, or potting new cuttings? I originally thought just give it what it was used to before, but it seems like some do worse.
I was hoping you would say something about a round bulb?? which I have found growing on the stems. I saw some on your video, but you didn't mention anything. I just love watching here in South Africa.😊
Hi there! Can you please do a video on how you do preventative pest control? What pesticides, fungicides, especially for mealy bugs etc. also, what time of the year, especially in a larger scale nursery operation. Thank you!
I’ve slowly learned to be careful with terracotta pots and only use them temporarily to grow up smaller succulent pups up over winter. I only have a few of my bigger succulents in large terracotta pots and top them with stones so they hold more moisture during our Perth summers. I almost lost my Morning Beauty echeveria from heat stress in a terracotta pot during a summer heatwave 2 years ago but managed to revive it by sitting it in a bowl of water for over a week, replacing the water every 3 days in the shade.
They can be very tricky when it gets hot. I mostly use them for Echeveria hybrids that like it on the dry side but even they struggle when summer hits. Hoping for a nice, mild summer for both of us 🤞🤞
Your videos are always the best! Not sure if you already have a video on it, but I'd love to know your pest prevention routine if you have one? I've been keeping mine inside and occasionally they still somehow get the off mealybug or powdery mildew. I'd like to try moving some outside next summer but am pretty worried about pests. Any advice would be greatly appreciated 😊
Thank you so much💚I’m going to try and do a video on disease and pests soon- it may take me a few weeks though as we’re in the middle of propagating/ getting ready for Christmas 🎄🙂
