Holiday projects, repotting seedlings

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I came home with this little pot of seedlings as an afterthought, I bought them very cheaply last weekend as the seller said that he didn't have time or space to repot them. They are Madagascan Palms or Pachypodium lamerei, not a palm at all but a caudex plant with a spiny trunk. Easy to grow, they are very common in gardens here and they can get to be the size of a tree, with a large bottle-shaped trunk. It's a bit problematic when they are all planted in one pot because pachypodiums dislike having their roots disturbed so although some of them are distinctly dehydrated, I thought it would be better to repot them now than water them and get them in good condition and then go disturbing them.

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So now I have 12 little pots, the five in the black pots on the right are a bit stunted, their caudexes are dehydrated and they have probably been exposed to too much sun and heat. If I grow them in cooler conditions in semi-shade, they will probably improve. I still have yet to water them, though. When growing succulents, it's important to learn not to automatically water plants that are struggling. It's better to put them in a cooler, less sunny place and start watering slowly until they gradually re-establish themselves.

Hopefully they will all survive and I will sell or swop them in a couple of years' time, once they are larger.

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