The 16 laws of the succulent circle

Broken Window Effect/Residual Meat Effect

If the window of a car on the roadside is broken and it is not repaired in time, the car will be damaged more and more and may even be dismantled.

In the succulent plant circle, if you let a succulent plant become disabled and throw it outdoors, it will become more and more beautiful, and then... be stolen.

Barrel Law/Platter Law

The bucket principle states that how much water a bucket can hold depends entirely on the shortest piece of wood in it.

The law of succulent circle platter is that whether the succulents planted together look good or not depends on the succulent plant that is the least light-tolerant or the most water-loving, so it is better to plant succulents with similar habits together.

Pareto Principle

The 80/20 rule is widely used in various scenarios. For example, 80% of the results of your work come from 20% of your effort; and 80% of the effort only brings 20% of the results; for example, 80% of a country's wealth is in the hands of only 20% of its people.

In the succulent circle, the more you put all kinds of trouble on them, it doesn't mean that they will be more beautiful, such as watering them every day, moving them here and there, and spraying them with this medicine or that medicine when something doesn't feel right. Succulents often don't need that much, and if you grow them outdoors and don't take care of them, they are more likely to be beautiful on their own.

In addition, 80% of succulents are not widely known, while 20% are talked about a lot.

Maximum Temperature Effect/Beauty after Summer

The hottest time of the day is always around 2 p.m. We always think that the sun is the strongest at this time, but in fact the sun has already set in the west and no longer provides the most heat. The reason why the temperature is the highest at this time is simply due to the previous accumulation of heat.

As we all know, succulents are the most beautiful in autumn and winter, but it does not come from the accumulation of summer. No matter how badly they are devastated by the summer, succulents will regain their beauty! ! But...that requires you to be alive after summer.

Bandwagon effect

The bandwagon effect, also known as the herd effect, refers to the fact that people are often influenced by the majority and follow the majority's thoughts or behaviors.

Ever since beautiful pictures of succulents have been posted on social media platforms, more and more people have been jumping into the succulent trap and buying them.

Veblen Effect/Expensive means expensive goods

The higher the price of a product, the more popular it will be among consumers. The consumption tendency that consumers are more willing to buy goods as the price of the goods increases was first noticed by American economist Veblen, and was therefore named the "Veblen effect."

The common succulents that cost dozens or hundreds of dollars in the mall are all great value, so buy, buy, buy! ! !

Another example is to directly classify succulents into expensive goods, junk goods, and common goods. Expensive goods are always popular, even if common goods are as beautiful as expensive ones.

Celebrity Effect/Famous Meat Effect

The celebrity effect is a general term for the effects of celebrities in attracting attention, strengthening things, and expanding influence, or the psychological phenomenon of people imitating celebrities. For example, celebrity endorsements in advertisements can stimulate consumption, and celebrities’ attendance at charity events can encourage society to care for the weak, and so on.

Every year there are always a few types of succulents that are very popular. Although they are expensive, they cannot stop the enthusiasm of succulent lovers and they buy them.

The Law of Wine and Sewage/The Law of Scale Insects

The law of wine and sewage means that if you pour a spoonful of wine into a bucket of sewage, you get a bucket of sewage; if you pour a spoonful of sewage into a bucket of wine, you still get a bucket of sewage. In other words, no matter how much sewage there is, as long as it exists, it will cause overall damage.

Placing a diseased or insect-infested succulent plant together with other succulents will not purify it, but may cause harm to the other succulents as well. For example, if a pot of succulents has scale insects... and it is placed together with other succulents... then the other succulents will also have scale insects.

Murphy's Law

If something bad can happen, no matter how small the possibility is, it will always happen and cause the maximum possible loss.

Whether you want it or not, succulents will always have scale insects. Whether you like it or not, black rot will always occur in summer.

Domino Effect

If we do not take precautions to prevent problems from happening and plug loopholes, a domino effect of one failing will occur.

If a scale insect appears, it may increase in number if it is not controlled.

The Butterfly Effect

A butterfly in the Amazon rainforest occasionally flaps its wings, and two weeks later, it may cause a tornado in Texas, USA.

If a scale insect appears, your succulents may be infected with sooty mold or black rot in a few weeks.

Crocodile Law/Law of Exiting the Pit

Suppose a crocodile bites your foot. If you use your hand to try to free your foot, the crocodile will bite both your foot and hand at the same time. The more you struggle, the more you get bitten. So, if a crocodile bites your foot, your only option is to sacrifice a foot.

If your partner falls in love with succulents and ignores you because of it, you must not try to stop him or her, otherwise she will drift further and further away from you. Your best bet is to buy her a lot of succulents in the summer... After the summer, she'll see the pile of empty pots and realize what's going on.

False Consensus Bias/We Are All Succulent

We tend to believe that our hobbies are the same as most people.

If you like succulents, you may overestimate the number of people who like succulents, and then excitedly open a succulent store. After struggling, you finally find out that not everyone on the street likes succulents.

Label effect

Psychology believes that the reason why the "label effect" occurs is mainly because "labels" have a qualitative guiding role. Whether they are "good" or "bad", they have a strong influence on a person's "personality consciousness and self-identity". The result of "labeling" a person is often to make him develop in the direction implied by the "label".

Xiao Hongyi and Jingye were labeled as dying in the summer, and then... they both died in the summer. Black Prince and East Beauty were labeled as common goods... and then they became less popular.

Birdcage Effect

If you have a nice bird cage at home, you will be asked the following two questions over and over again: Where is the bird? Why not keep birds?

In the succulent circle, people would say, wow, such a good bird cage, it’s just right for growing succulents and making a succulent bird cage.

Symbiotic Effect

In nature, the division of labor and cooperation among organisms are naturally formed and developed through the dual effects of symbiotic relationships and competition for survival. There is such a phenomenon in nature: when a plant grows alone, it appears short and monotonous, but when it grows with many similar plants, it has deep roots and lush leaves, and is full of vitality. People call this phenomenon of mutual influence and mutual promotion in the plant kingdom the "symbiotic effect."

No wonder the succulent platter is so beautiful.