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[@Cerriscapades]

Happy mother's day to all mums out there!

[@edmora7662]

Happy Mother’s Day from all of us to your mother in law and your Wife.

[@edmora7662]

Hope all is well with you and your family Chuck.

[@Cerriscapades]

All good, hopefully I'll get to be able to film again soon. Hay fever season is ending soon!

[@edmora7662]

@@Cerriscapades i just missed the opening intro

[@newmanmansell760]

Great episode about winter Aeoniums Chuck😌👌🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟Have a great day

[@tinamarieussery3063]

Glad to see you pop up again i have missed watching you

[@SnookyAnderson88a]

Omg your succulent garden is amazing

[@janetac1738]

Chuck! Are we going to see any new videos from you anytime soon? I know you guys are just coming out of winter and you’re just in the beginning of spring time now so with the weather warming up I’m really looking forward to some new videos!!

[@manluk1499]

Whao!!! Thanks for your sharing. Haven't seen so many different aeonium in Qld. Will shop around.😊

[@Lilyastacio]

You are my inspiration

[@tommyhodges2105]

You are an artist and beautiful landscape

[@birgin30]

I have seen many videos with succulents but.. U U really help my from. Soil to cotting and from sun to rock garden.. 💯.. 😃.. now i watch all video from first one 😁... Always be well you and your family..!

[@mariagdaws6083]

Hello Chuck , so nice to see you again, so happy you posted a video The children are growing beautifully and I love how you have them in the introduction Have a lovely day with your family By the way, the Echeverias I purchased from you are doing well and have grown quite a bit Stay well and happy ❤️

[@elainaharter8405]

Thank you. I love seeing your beautiful plants. And love the children’s smiles

[@kathygilbreath6073]

Beautiful aeoniums. I bought a lot from California recently.

[@bobbiechinn9578]

I love ur vids and, love the juggling too! Lol

[@KaleiPlants]

This is all so exciting, there's so much to look forward to! I also hope you can make an update on the seedlings! PS: I knew the juggling was gonna make an appearance, was actually surprised it wasn't on the last video... 😅

[@Cerriscapades]

Haha forgot to mention it in the last one

[@LuckystrikeGFXer]

I wish the flower stalks of my plants would grow as thick, with a good amount of leaves and big enough leaves to be propagated the way you do it. I still have to resort to leaf propagation to get new plants from my collection.

[@Cerriscapades]

Usually the gibbiflora hybrids push out those thick stalks.

[@LuckystrikeGFXer]

@@Cerriscapades I tried it with an Echeveria serrana, it already had growth that looked like offsets but after chopping it nothing came out of it, no root growth and the growth on the stem did also not grow out.

[@Cerriscapades]

@@LuckystrikeGFXer I haven't tried with a Serrana yet, but I generally think that affinis and Black Prince tend to do better with leaves anyway. Their flower stalks almost always are the thin type, and it's hard to grow offsets off of those.

[@LuckystrikeGFXer]

@@Cerriscapades I see, the flower stalk was 2 or 3 cm thick so I thought it would work. Well I removed most of the bigger leaves of it after I didn't see anything developing and now have some offsets growing at least.

[@siewleanchoong8625]

Thank you, Chuck, for coming back to share. We can't plant Aeonium so freely because of the frost here in Canberra. May I know roughly how many pups do you get from a flower stalk like the one you held in your hand?

[@pennylane9155]

Thank you for the info on the aeoniums Chuck! It was very interesting!

[@batanghardinero1539]

yes plssss and happy mother's day po to your wife, happy mother's day din sa mother plants mo po hahaha 😂😂

[@Cerriscapades]

hahahahaha!

[@halaman519]

Cool new skill sir Chuck!

[@ceciliatorres1882]

Hi, Chuck. I've been enjoying your episodes especially re the Aeoniums & Echeverias. With this episode, I learned that I can start new plants from the flower stalks. Quick question, is Scoria the same as lava rocks? I'm from California and can't find Scoria here. Thank you.

[@moonbeammagic7499]

So with the flower stalks you can either take all the leaves off for leaf propagation or you can plant the stalk. If you plant the stalk do you remove some leaves so the pops can grow from those nodes? Or do the pops grow between the leaves?

[@karlotube1991]

Chuck, your channel is very informative. I’m planning to start a sparse succulent garden on top of hard clay by creating pockets of aggregate/soil on a downhill slope. Assuming I achieve proper drainage with my soil/aggregate mix, what would you suggest wrt using drip irrigation? Use an emitter for each succulent? Or water from the top of the mound and let water flow down somewhat naturally to each plant? Salamat.

[@josiecarter7664]

Hi, how do you control snails as i would love to put my succulents in the ground but we have heaps of snails when it rains. Thank you. Josie

[@Cerriscapades]

Hi Josie. The longer I've been doing this, the less I find myself fighting snails and other pests. In my garden they tend to appear at a certain part near the fence or the brick wall. I have "sacrificial plants" planted at the back which they will munch on. They might spread on to the other plants but the damage is mostly at the rear. I would prefer not using pesticides if I can help it. There's too much work and costs involved once you use pesticides, which scales up the larger your garden is. If you use spot treatment, you'll be applying on to many plants, which can be tiring. If you use systemics, you'll have to make sure the beneficial critters are not affected (pollinators, etc) by removing flowers. That's too much work for a large garden and I just stopped doing it. I'll just cut off the flower stalks when I think I see the start of an infestation that I can not contain.

[@kk_peachy7135]

when will the shop open up!

[@evelynzinnauer348]

Well done on the juggling, now you're just showing off, to us who can't juggle - ha ha being sarcastic here.

[@Cerriscapades]

Due to the pandemic and working from home, I wanted to be able to juggle work, home, and my hobbies. But instead I ended up juggling, full stop.

[@evelynzinnauer348]

@@Cerriscapades you are definitely juggling more than just life itself. I've tried juggling and it's quite hard so we'll done with that.

[@akiawayne]

Thanks for the stem prop advice. For those big long stems, is it advisable to like chop them up into 3 sections we ill get 3 instead of 1 ? Thanks

[@Cerriscapades]

No I would not recommend doing that, there's better success growing from a longer stem because there's more nodes that can be used for growing roots, and more nodes for growing new offsets. Chopping them into smaller sections will reduce the usable bits, and would be pretty much the same as leaf propagation - much slower.

[@akiawayne]

@@Cerriscapades That makes total sense. Thank you Chuck!

[@edmora7662]

What’s up Chuck

[@Cerriscapades]

Preparing for a long drive. Family is going for a day trip for mother's day!

[@edmora7662]

Enjoy

[@mickzenyhughes8291]

Hello you selling those ??