 Hi everybody, my name is Joan Hugh. I'm one of the librarians here at the Maine Village and King Library. And thank you for tuning in to watch my program, Super Succulents. Today, I want to show you how easy it is to fill containers with seconds of all different types, size, shape, and color. I've endowed it with seconds for about 10 years now. I've read a few good books on succulents and cacti's. My favorite happens to be the one my husband gave me for my birthday a couple years ago. Unfortunately, the book no longer is in print. It's not in the library. It's by Kathy Tuttle. But we do have great books on succulents here that I've checked out from the library. I have to say I don't always follow what experts say about succulents. Good succulent care. My attitude is, hey, if it falls out and it's still healthy, plug it back in there again. And if it's withering, dying, or dead, please take it out and replace it with a hardier succulent. I'm just so lucky. Succulents are so forgiving. They even survive in a state of neglect occasionally. So a couple days ago, I filled four pots here with soil. The expert claim he should use cacti potting soil. Well, I just tell my husband, go to Home Depot or Lowe's and pick up a big bag of America grow potting soil that usually has compost in it. My suckers don't care. They seem pretty happy with it. Also, succulents do like a lot of sun. So give it at least six hours of sun. And the experts say you should actually pot them in clay pots because they usually come with a hole in the bottom. This promotes good drainage. And also the clay pots retain the heat in the wintertime. But I have to admit, about 95% of my pots don't have holes in the bottom. Yes, if I was ambitious, I could fill a hole in the bottom. But I'm lazy. I'm just very careful of how much water I give them. I know overwatering kills succulents are crazy. So at the beginning, I just water them in lightly. Maybe once a week, eventually every other week. And when they're fully established once a month or every other month, depending on the season of the year. So here I'm going to begin with my first pot here. Okay, I'm going to water it lightly with the soil lightly with water here. Makes it easy for me to dig on it. You could use any kind of stick. I prefer a chopstick because I have plenty of them on my house. So I'm going to poke a hole in the center here. Okay, my first succulent is going to be my favorite rosette, which is a purple cress aeonium. I love it because of the color. And this succulent is all over the place. I'll trim it just a little bit here. And all I do is dig it in there like that. I'm going to make this one very symmetrical. So I found this succulent here. I'll trim, pack all of them before the show. I'm going to trim so the same size. I'll show you how I do it. And then I'm going to put this as I want symmetrical. I'm going to put this at a slant here because I want this to drape over a little bit here. I'm going to stick it in like this here. I'm going to stick it in there pretty tightly here because I want symmetrical. I'm going to put this on the opposite side. Okay, I'm going to do it like this here. I'm going to continue going on. I picked this second here and I'm going to poke a hole on this side here. I'm going to plug it in like that. And on the opposite side over there, plug it in like that. I'm going to continue the same thing over and over again until now. Be the range that looks full. I'm going to make it a little lower here. I'm going to tuck it in just a little bit. I'm going to stick it in here like that on the opposite hand. I'm going to do something like this here. Stick it in there. I think I'll add a little like my shade here. Hide here. This here. And this up here. I'm going to put another one. I'm going to look at my arrangement. And if I decide I want to fill in a little bit more, which I do, I like to cover all the soil up here. I'll tuck in this one right here. And on this side here and over here, it's my arrangement. So when I'm happy with the arrangement, I just water it lightly. I try to water the soil and not the plant itself. This one's a little tight here. Well not to overwater. I try to water the soil and not the plant. The leaf doesn't like this water because it becomes moldy. That's my first pot here. I set this one aside here. My second pot, I'm going to use a clay pot. This one does have a hole in the bottom. And this clay pot here. A little water here. And then a hole under the stick this time. The bottom here. I'm going to use my fire stick second this time. This fire stick second turns fiery red in full sun. Unfortunately my area hasn't had much sunlight, so it turns back to green. In full sun it is fiery red. You got to be careful with fire stick suckling. You make a cut in the stem. You'll notice a white milky substance. Well this substance can be very toxic. If you get near your eyes, they can blind you, it doesn't go. If you're getting your skin and you have scented skin, it could cause a rash. So be very careful with it. Okay. Watch it. Maybe wear a long sleeve, especially gloves. Don't touch your face and wash your hands afterwards. Since this suckling is very top heavy, and I cut it a little bit more. Here's that white substance here. And why do I just plot it all the way to the bottom and sink it in there like that? When I have a big pot, I actually put four or five of these together and it looks magnificent and very full. I'm going to pop, pat it down here so it just stays down there. This fire stick suckling goes rampant all over town. The landscape would like to use it because not only does it grow tall, but it goes wide. I'm forever cutting down my fire stick suckling. Hey, my third pot. I'm going to use another rosette. Rosettes I love. Okay, this rosette is going to be my cabbage rosette. All my cabbage rosette because it reminds me of the cabbage. Okay, lightly water it. I'm going to do the whole little. Okay, my cabbage rosette looks like this. I think it might be a bunch of this one here like that. And this one here is top heavy, so I like the stem to be very long. I'll cut a little bit here. And it was just sticking right in there. Cabbage rosettes grow rampant outside in full sun. Lots of little babies called pups. And I have it in my front yard in a wave and it looks magnificent. They just keep growing. And my last pot is a cute little teacup. Since it is miniature, I had to pick a small suckling. I'm going to wet it a little bit here. I'll use my chopstick again. So I had to pick a suckling that's very, very small, so I want to put a trail of three of them together. This has a little purpley blue shade to it. Stick it down there. The second one here, just push it down there. My third one here, I just stick it down there. I think I ended up getting only a water once a week, eventually twice a month fully established. Maybe every other month, depending on the season. Oh, they love sunlight. About six hours worth. I usually keep them in the house for a couple months and eventually they all go outside because they thrive outside. That's my third one. Actually, my fourth one. I have to say sucklings make fabulous gifts for anyone of any age, for any occasion. Okay, what I did about a year ago, and then you could do with family or friends, you have some people over. I had something when I called my pot party. I invited my cousin's kids to come over. They were ready to go back to school the door. I said, come over. I'm going to have a pot party. I have lots of pots. I got real cheap at a garage sale and I have these sucklings that I have to trim because it gets so leggy. So they came over. All three girls each way will make three pots to take back to college. So you can do that one like that with family and friends. They may actually make great displays inside the house too because they are off a variety from the green housepence you have. I think it's a proper conversation here. I love this hobby because I like to see things grow and hopefully do too. They are a very drought smart plant and hopefully get the hook done like I have. And I want to thank you for watching this program and hopefully you will think about sucklings next time you want to plant something green. Thank you.