And that is how it was that day. The day when the babies arrived. The atmosphere of that Monday morning was not the best one as I was struggling with my second day of migraine-nausea condition. Writing a long post, organizing the afternoon schedule and thinking about what to prepare for the lunch didn't help to be better either. I had to concentrate, not to be distracted by the sound of ringing, so my husband opened after the doorbell made its music. It was the postman, delivered a car crane. My husband ordered it because a tire on our car had recently punctured, so while he was putting on a spare tire, he saw that the crane was not the best, just in case he bought another one. That arrived, he picked up the package, I kept writing. But that bell again signalled that someone wanted to come in or had something for us to hand over. And then I knew, I clearly knew, that is the package for me!!
I left my work and picked my package, which was travelling exactly for one week. Oh, do you know how happy I was? I left everything and started to unbox the treasure. And it was a treasure packed and sent with so much dedication and love. First, there were some small packets of newspapers, organized with perfection in that box. And not just that. Each one was sealed with care. Look here:
Carefully, I placed them on the table on the balcony, and was excited about opening them.
I opened the first newspaper pack. Oh my, my first impression was: They are babies!! When you see when the babies are born and covered in this way, only to have their heads sticking out. I had the same feeling watching these rolls of cactus. I called them Elmo babies ❤️
Following the procedure, I opened each one and the result was a lot of plant babies covered in the same way. The roots were wrapped in napkins to protect them. Only this one plant that was not packed was only with a small root, the others all already had larger roots.
Unfortunately, I had to go back to finish my writing and go to work, so after coming home I get prepared to put the plants into the pots and soil. I was prepared...yes...there were a lot of plastic pots waiting for them. It means a lot of other killed plants who lived there before..? No, better to think that those which occupied before them, now are lot bigger so needed bigger pots. Let us stay with this version.
The first two plants I planted got small clay pots, just for their size. They fit well. The first is the jelly plant, officially Haworthia Cooperi, and this post is where everything started. Those jelly plants were looking for new home. I thought it was just a joke, but that lady was serious in her intention to send them!
The next which got a new home was Echeveria Runyonii, and the same kind of small pot was found for it. I suppose they will both grow it out in near future, so I will move them to bigger ones, but at the moment I felt they are nice in these grey small ones. Let us hope they will grow, if not, I will be in trouble.
I could not take a photo of every step, but I was choosing posts for plants that I had. Those are a bit bigger plastic pots than they would maybe need now, but I wanted to give them soil and water as soon as possible after that long trip. I finished that evening the planting and I was calm. They will be good. I gave them water after and said them good night :))
The first night they slept well, I checked on them in the morning, all were there, all alive. Good. I wanted to buy them nicer clay pots so the search for them started. I couldn't find some smaller, nice ones, so they are of different colours and size, but ok, they don't have to be uniformized right?
Only the small snowball cacti stayed just in plastic pots, there were not so small decorative posts for them. According to their real mom, their official name is Notocactus mueller-melchersii, but I will still call them Elmo cacti, as they are now my adopted children. I have to take care of all of them now, no plant shall die with me!!!
Jelly plant taking first morning sunbathing:
Stapelia variegata also taking a bit of morning sun, although I was adviced not too much sun for it:
Kalanchoe Lucky Bells, lost a number of leaves while travelling, but the green ones are good, it will be great. I put them together, I could put the tiny stems separated as they all had roots, but at the moment they are together, like in a kindergarten.
So in total, 7 different types of plants arrived at me, to take care of them, to love them and be a good new succulent mom. They will be good, as I will try my best not to bring sorrow to @ewkaw, who is actually responsible for the sending of them. Thank you so much for sending them, for your careful packaging and checking out the tracking number if they arrived, lol. 50% of this post is going your way, to help at least a little bit with the shipping fee.
I am required to write a post when they grow, so pray mipiano, pray, they can grow without any loss.
P.S. I received one cat hair too, so if not Suzi in her full size, at least one hair that I got :))))