My little gasteria is blooming, but I can't remember to grab the camera and try for a photo. It was sold as Gasteria liliputana 'Dwarf Ox-Tongue', so I'm assuming it will always be a small plant. How small? Anyone know?

I have read Gasteria liliputana does stay small, though I have not grown that particular variety.

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I got two new Rhipsalis yesterday from the San Francisco flower and garden show:

Rhipsalis mesambryanthemoides - clumpy mistletoe cactus


Rhipsalis salicornioides - dancing bones cactus


Hanging them by our part/sun-shade corner:

Rats!...I missed the San Francisco Flower and Garden Show again?!!!

Uh-oh Bev! I took photos, I have a thread in the Pacific Gardening forum

Tarev... clicking the keys onward.

I remembered to grab a photo of the Gasteria liliputana 'Dwarf Ox-Tongue' blooming. For such a small thing, it's quite visible.

Love those chubby buds!!!

Congrats Tarev!! Way to go

Tarev, you have the most interesting plants.

Thanks Greg and Marilyn

My Pachyveria 'Blue Pearl' has decided it likes to lean more...maybe getting too top heavy or maybe wanted more direct light than it can get in its current location.

I thought at first the trunk is getting mushy, but it is still nice and firm, so for now will leave it alone. I am reassured it is doing well with the new flower stalk at the tip and new rosettes along the stem.


Echeveria elegans 'Grey Red', on the other hand continues to grow upright, and has formed new rosettes along the stem and has been blooming too:


Echeveria elegans 'Blue' had a rough winter, even though it was drier this year, it really hates being cold. Started to lean and stem got mushy. I have taken cuttings early on, and the remaining ones continued turning mushy at the stem. I just allowed that part to dry up, and new roots are now forming at the edge of the healed part of the stem.

Rosette cuttings are doing great too in another container.


Echeveria 'Sleepy' ..I wonder if this is called sleepy just because it tends to lean heavily, as it tries to get more sun.



I love that it actively makes offsets at the base and along the stem, as it makes its bloomstalks at the tip.

Interesting...I hate when my sucs go in another direction than where I think they will stay in formation. Good thing these plants have such amazing color and leaf shape and geometric shape that I forgive them...

Indeed! Just got to let them do what it wants..otherwise I might end up hurting it more!

Overpotted to hell haha

I love that variegated H. limifolia though! I'm wanting one!! I have a green one with very thin white lines, but these ones with yellow in them are very cool!!

I think this may be the start of a bloom!! In case you can't see it, there is a tiny little pink thing coming up on the cactus in the upper part of the pot! Actually there are several, but this one is the only one large enough to see in the photo! Hooray!! My first indoor cacti to bloom!
@springcolor thanks for this lovely cactus :)

Looks like the start of a bloom to me, Greg. I have a cactus that's showing buds now and I have to find a place to put it where the squirrels won't eat the buds. They've done that two years in a row now. It's a native cactus and I've seen the squirrels sitting on the slope munching away on plants trying to bloom in the pasture. Squirrels can be cute and entertaining, but they have a destructive facet that gets out of hand when there are too many - or when they learn something new, foodwise.

Yep, definitely a bloom.

Planto

Donald that sounds terrible!! To wait for the blooms and then have them be eaten away
Planto - thanks for confirming! I'll update photos when there are changes