LGBTQ+ Poultry Keepers

[fluffycrow]

Seems like you two are doing much better with your Jade. I almost burnt mine to crisp last year, but she’s coming back. The cons of keeping succulents outdoors

 

[kattabelly]

Gay Black Swan Đads Make the Best Parents

Someone from the RSPB (main UK bird protection charity) did a great display about this and similar behaviours on other species, for their stall at our local Pride event this year

 

[TwoCrows]

Thank you TwoCrows, you give me far too much credit.

They definitely are fun little plants. Boring for some, but probably my favourite or second favourite out of all the succulents. They don’t grow like normal succulents, they split. Think of it as a reptile shedding its skin. Unlike a reptile, each split has a chance of the plant splitting into two. That is the only way these plants “grow”. The growth of each particular lithop is rather minimal, and they aren’t really supposed to stick out of the dirt too much. Of course, seedlings are different. Those grow quite a bit, but it’s a slow process. Lithops split once a year, after they are done flowering (and if they’re too young to flower, usually by November/December).

Here is one of mine, blending quite expertly with the soilView attachment 4188942. Isn’t nature just amazingly innovative?

Excellent info here Fluffy! Yes these are definitely plants that have evolved in a much non-conventional way unlike other succulents. Seeing them split for the first time was definitely strange for me! I have a total of 4 Lithops now, and yes all of them took 6 months to split and regrow. BUT they are definitely bigger this year and look more healthy than they did when I received them last year in June. If I've learned something along the way is that some shipped plants can take months, if not a full year+ to recover from being uprooted, stuffed in a box and shipped cross country. As hardy as succulents are, this is still shocking to some of them.

 

[TwoCrows]

Someone from the RSPB (main UK bird protection charity) did a great display about this and similar behaviours on other species, for their stall at our local Pride event this year
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This sort of thing definitely brings attention to issues we all need to know more about. Awareness is everything. This is wonderful!

 

[kattabelly]

This sort of thing definitely brings attention to issues we all need to know more about. Awareness is everything. This is wonderful!

I think you meant that more generally but the idea that orcas having gay sex is an "issue we all need to know more about" has just cracked me up