u/eurasianblue

The weather can be pretty gloomy where I am and this is my first time putting my pachy outside. Would love to hear from more experienced people. Also advice about the adenium obesum is welcome too, I do not know how much gloomy weather they can take either. Attached is a pic of the weather forecast (top fahrenheit bottom celcius, it's the same thing)

I was wondering what these new growths on my pachypodium lamerei could be. Are they roots? Or branching or something else? Do I need to do anything about it?

Some background: This is my only pachypodium and it is about two and a half years old. It has been a completely indoors plant in my care and did not go into dormancy because of my grow lights and warm environment of my plant room. It is in 100% inorganic substrate consisting of pumice and perlite and lava rock. It has a strong grow light, I water quite often whenever I see the pumice change color. It has been growing steadily. Recently I have been dealing with thrips. It also suffers from them a bit, however it is not a big infestation so it hasn't been really bad. At its current spot, a plant with a moss pole that has consistently moist moss in the moss pole sits close to it. The growths that I found are all at the side of the plant facing away from the light source, and close to the moss pole.

Thanks for ideas and advice!

I saw a few crows on the roof of a low building a few hundred meters away from my patio this morning. But they never come close and I would like to attract them. I also have a snail problem in my little patio garden and it would be amazing to get rid of the snails in a way that would benefit the local wildlife. Any suggestions on how I can do this?

Also here is a crow drawing I made a few years back. Thanks!

I have had this plant for a few years. Last year I air-layered, chopped and attached a few nodes of it on a moss pole. It has been growing nicely. I noticed that the newest leaf of it looked weird before unfurling and today it opened up enough to see that it is a properly pinnated leaf! I took some pictures of the plant from various angles and also pictured is the mother plant. Does anyone know what it is actually called? I searched the web a lot but could not find any examples of pinnated Calkin's Gold, so although I might be wrong, I don't think they ever grow such leaves. Thanks!