Finally got around to picking up a burro’s tail. Hung in the front yard. Just gotta hope nobody steals it.
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I have a big space on a south facing wall so I did this.
Welcome to my propagation station. The band-aid in the top left corner is more concrete evidence against me in my Emilie vs. the stud finder case. I can’t use a stud finder but I can grow plants. 🩷
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My autumn/winter growers are stirring, including my euphorbia horrida. Not a particularly rare plant, but a personal favorite. Had it about 2 yrs now, all those pups sprouted up last yr.
The red bits on the tip of the mother plant are the first new spines of the year. She got a good heavy drink yesterday, so more to come.
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My agave (I think) had a summer glow up outside after moving to a bigger pot. Lets see how it fares inside for the winter with 2 cats looking for excavation projects.
Good luck little dude.
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I believe that’s actually a mangave! And a nice healthy one.
I thought that name was made up when I first encountered it out here (like a marketing ploy that it’s a “manly agave” for men? Or similar nonsense), but its real.
They don’t naturally occur, they were created. Cross between an agave and something else, can’t recall what.
I also could be totally wrong, it happens 
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My plant ID app says its a century plant in the agave family
BUT…
Look at that central spiral growth on the mangave. I trust you on this more than my plant app. He’s a mangave.
Now a manly plant like a mangave will need a rough and tumble name. I shall call him Lois. 
Thanks T, I knew you knew.
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My African violet did so well out on the patio this summer. It’s never bloomed this nicely. Now i have to bring it inside and hide it from my plant- murdering cats for the winter. I can’t put it on a window sill because they’ve already proven they’ll knock it off. I have to put it on top the fridge and it doesn’t do well there and i forget to water it
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It’ll take a year or two to fill in how I’d like to see it, but cactus and succulents are a long-term game.
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My Stapelia now 3 weeks later - thanks again @Manpreet for identifying.
It dropped it’s first flower, but getting ready for another one. It didn’t smell at all… I put my nose right into it… nothing! I guess that’s a good thing
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Exact same species! Haworthia attenuata
Same look I’m going for. Really cool when they get into gnarly clumps like that. Great-looking plant you have!
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I really like this 
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Thanks, well mine has brown tips at the end of some leaves. Don’t know why.
It doesn’t get much water and I give it much light.
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I’ll play around with my propagation wall today. That huge fern has been alive since 1969 when someone gifted it to my Mom. It lives with me now. No pressure.
The tiny fern in the right of the pic is my cutting from the Mama fern. I am the only one in the family who can keep the cuttings alive.
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2nd time repotting aloe “raspberry ruffles”
Much like the recently discussed mangave, these do not exist in nature and are the product of hybridizing and selective breeding.
I kinda wish it would stay deep blue all the time, but I do like the shifts towards green and gray, almost lilac at times.
Aug 2022
Nov 2023
First repot last year after I scooped this blue pot at the neighborhood plant swap
Today
Those roots tell me she needed it. It was like a birds nest in there.
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First time going with a black pot. Glad it’s a satin finish too, glossy just wouldn’t work. Clean and minimalist. I had a picture in my head and I think it really works.
Aloe hybrid: descoingsii x haworthioides
AKA Aloe “Pepe”
Like my other aloe, it only exists in horticulture, not a naturally-occuring plant. It’s a hybrid of a diminutive species of aloe and a diminutive species of haworthia.
Be interesting to see how it fills out the pot.
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Help! 
It’s gorgeous but I’ve never had one before. The kids gave it to us as a thank you for babysitting.
I’m afraid
Good thing there’s google.
They sound difficult to take care of. At least they aren’t toxic to cats. So far they haven’t tried to climb it or play on it. Yet!
Any tips are welcome.
It’s in a 5 inch pot with no drainage holes. I’m thinking of getting a 6 inch orchid pot with holes and some special orchid dirt.
I feel like a real Californian now.
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