Yes it does. The right amount of “extreme conditions” (direct sun, heat, cool temps) will bring out stress colors. Obviously without acclimation these conditions can hurt or kill the plant, but when the plant slowly adapts to the most frigid days of the cold season or all-day full direct sun in summer, these conditions bring out the most beautiful colors especially in succulents.

I’m a total sucker for stress colors. It’s the same dopamine sensation as getting a color-changing item like a toy or cup, but you have to work harder and wait longer for the color change in succs haha.

Cool! I love the little bubbly leaves! Hope you will post an update to show off the growth :)

I want that bottom left! Crassula of some kind? Do you know the ID? These all look so supple!

Some jade bushes near my place in the Bay Area always have giant branches smashed like this, covered in dog pee too. I found a monster branch recently that I cleaned many times with dawn, then stuck it in some gritty mix and soil and now have a fat jade. One man’s trash!

Grow lights are kind of a pain in the ass, to be fair. I think these heads look pretty good for a winter! Healthy and still have some color. I wish you quick successful rooting!

Thank you! I’m manifesting this haha. I wish you ideal growing conditions as well!

I like ugly plants too! One of the many casualties of Reddit’s demise is the lithops subreddit. I suggest checking it out while you can because it is a wealth of knowledge!

Interesting!

They’re so derpy and sweet! I scrolled and posted a lot recently on Reddit (wah wah) on the mourning derps and stupid dove nest subreddits (hilarious) because I got a little dove nest in a plant pot on my own porch this spring! The mom actually just had another set of eggs! I have learned a lot about these damn birds.

I really hope you get to see this one grow and get to see the parents, too. Our last set of fledglings spend a lot of their “teenage” days on our balcony railing instead of in the nest and the mom kept on coming back to feed wherever they stood, until eventually they were coaxed to start really flying. Maybe your baby’s parents will swoop down and feed. Or like someone else said the fledgling may just adapt and figure it out - surely it will get hungry enough to try!

I’m officially a bird person thanks to mourning doves!

Had to give away like 3/4 of my collection because I moved to a new place with no sunlight. I keep a really bright custom IKEA grow cabinet I built but it wasn’t the right situation for a lot of my succulents including the pickle plant. If I ever have more outdoor sunlight one day this will be one of the first I re-acquire :)

I love Buddha’s temples!

Happy lizard catching some shade :)

Lookin good!

Great username lmao. Nice macro!

That’s a baby mourning dove! There are usually two babies so the sibling is likely up in the nest. The parent could feed it on the ground if it feels safe to do so, but I’m not sure if the parents would know how to find it or would feel safe.

TX voter turnout in general and by young people is on the lower end of all of the US states, although young voter turnout is not amazing anywhere.

I spent 10 years of my adult life in Texas, as a young adult avidly into government at all levels no less, and I struggled to cast votes a number of times due pretty much entirely to registration issues. Separately, in Nov 2020, while out of state for work during the presidential election, my partner and I both could not get approved for mail-in ballots and we each had to fly in JUST to vote. Maddening. I’m sure that plenty of people do not have the conviction/resources to buy a last minute flight from their responsibilities just to go vote in a designated building in TX. And we all know it doesn’t have to be like that because plenty of states let people vote from wherever via mail without issue.

Given, I have ADHD and my registration obstacles sometimes were attributed to stupid ADHD mistakes (not understanding my registration hadn’t updated counties with my State ID address change until I was at the poll on Election Day, for example - I would’ve needed to catch this mistake 30 days in advance of Election Day to correct it, or travel across the state to my previous county of residence), but I also know plenty of people who’ve missed their voting chance because they changed last names (marriage/divorce) and documentation wasn’t all updated concurrently, because of limited poll hours/locations especially for hourly workers, because of random voter roll purges, because of confusion around where to vote/register as a college student away from home, etc etc. You can imagine how these woes alone would dampen young people turnout, gerrymandering and jadedness notwithstanding. It is completely intentional by the controlling party in the legislature.

How interesting! Is the top part grafted on?