Once I saw succulents, I was ruined for life and fell into the trap of growing flowers

Newbie Choice

For those flower lovers who have just started, choosing succulents should be both good-looking and easy to grow. They should be both beautiful and not prone to dying! for example:

White Peony

Bear Paw

Quiet Night

Gyokuro

(Author: Gongcheng Chu Source: Baidu Knows)

Succulent cuttings

Most succulents can "give birth to babies" through cuttings. With just a simple branch and leaf, you can grow a new pot of flowers.

Cutting steps

1. Choose healthy plants and cut them where the leaves are sparse.

2. Don't throw away the mother plant. New buds will slowly grow from the cut place. If you are lucky, it may even grow into multiple succulent plants.

3. After cutting off the head, clean off the leaves close to the roots, place it on the mouth of the bottle, add a little water to the bottle, and it will take root in about a week. The cleaned leaves can be placed on the soil for leaf cuttings.

4. After rooting, it is time to pot it. Choose slightly moist soil when potting. Do not water it at first. Wait for 2 days before watering it.

Maintenance after insertion

1. After cuttings, succulents should not be exposed to the sun, should not be soaked in water for washing, and it is best not to soak them in a carbendazim solution for disinfection. It is best to place leaf cuttings on dry soil and do not water until roots grow.

2. For succulent leaves that only grow roots but no buds, be sure to bury the roots in the soil in time and spray water on the soil to keep it slightly moist.

3. For leaves that only grow buds but no roots, you can apply some rooting powder and bury the place where roots are to grow shallowly in the soil.

4. During the cutting process, if black rot and water appear on the mother leaves after sprouting, they should be removed in time to avoid endangering the small buds. If the mother leaf turns black and rots without sprouting, it is basically impossible for it to grow roots, so you must pay attention to ventilation.

5. Normal leaf cuttings are when the buds grow and the mother leaves dry up. At this time, just pick off the mother leaves.

Succulent soil

Vermiculite, perlite, medical stone, peat soil... There are so many types of soils for succulents. How should we prepare the soil for succulents?

Nutrient soil

Nutrient soil mainly refers to leaf mold, coconut bran, peat soil, pine needle soil, sawdust, rice husk charcoal, wood ash, etc. These soils mainly provide nutrients for succulents.

Granular soil

The granular soil for succulents is mainly loose soil and pavement, which has little nutrition, such as perlite, vermiculite, river sand, Akadama soil, Kanuma soil, Hyuga stone, iridescent stone, coarse sand, chlorite, diatomaceous earth, medical stone, ceramsite, etc.

Soil ratio

1. The simplest soil mixing method is peat soil: coarse sand = 1:1.

2. Generally, when planting succulent cuttings or seedlings, it is necessary to increase the proportion of nutrient soil appropriately, nutrient soil: granular soil = 6:4.

3. After the succulents grow into old trees, the proportion of granular soil should be appropriately increased, nutrient soil: granular soil = 4:6.

4. The specific type of soil you use is not that important. As long as you add a certain amount of granular soil and ensure good air permeability of the soil, there will generally be no major problems with succulents.

Succulent pests

Spring is the peak season for insects to be active. When you encounter insects, you must not tolerate them but kill them!

Scale insects

1. Scale insects are the most common pests of succulents. When sucking the juice of succulents, they secrete a kind of mucus that can attract dust. So if flower lovers find strange stains on the succulents in their homes, it is most likely that scale insects are causing trouble.

2. If you find scale insects, kill them immediately with tweezers, because scale insects have a wide range of activities and often spread to other succulents, causing great harm!

3. Large-scale insect infestations are best solved with medicine. Mix a small bottle of Flower Protector with 1000 ml of water and spray it on places where there are insects.

4. Generally, when watering, Huahua will remind everyone that it is best not to water the leaves, but in extraordinary times, you must rinse the leaves with liquid medicine, and finally blow away the water droplets on the leaves to prevent heart rot.