Pink Explosion
My favorite today: Echeveria 'Hanaikada' f. variegata
It has been raining and pouring for 2 weeks now. 🌧 We had practically no sun coming through the clouds. Today I was surprised to see a glimpse of the sun 🌦 and the first thing I saw a sunray stroke was this Echeveria 'Hanaikada' f. variegata. 🤩 It looked like a pink explosion!
💥 Isn't it a one gorgeous explosion? 💥💟💥
This specimen has two... ether flower stalks or babies. 🙃 I hope for babies 👶, but you never know until it develops further. Most likely they are flowers 🌷. In this case, I will remove the stalks and stick them in soil while removing the flowers. 🤓 So, it will be a stick with a few small leaves. 🌱 I am sure that this will propagate well and I will have new heads near those leaves. 😍
When the sun ☀️ strikes this highly variegated echeveria, the effect of explosion 💥 is magnified as the contrast is more intense. 🤩
The variegation of this plant gets dangerously close to unsafe levels. 😳 Less and less green/dark spots develop on new leaves.
This means that I may need to be-head 😵 it to let the small head lower on the stem, which has more chlorophyll, to develop into the main head. 😍 But until then, I will enjoy this showstopper as it is. 🥰
It is in a 6" terracotta pot. I don't have many terracotta pots, but my experience shows that succulents love them. 💚 The only problem with deeper terracotta pots comes when the plant breaks it with its root system 😲or when I try to pull out a large plant with minimum root damage (that is just not possible).
