What Soil Is Best for Growing Peach Eggs? A Detailed Guide to Soil Mixing

Peach eggs are also called peach egg leaves; the fleshy leaves are plump and round, with lovely light purple, pink and green tones, very endearing. So what soil is best for growing peach eggs?

1. What soil for peach eggs?

For the peach egg soil mix, use peat mixed with perlite and coal cinders, at a ratio of about 1:1:1. To keep the plant from touching the soil surface, and for better air circulation, you can lay down clean granular river sand or pumice (river sand size 3 to 5 mm).

2. Environment

Peach eggs like a warm, dry environment with plenty of light, are highly drought tolerant, and prefer loose soil with good drainage and air permeability, with no obvious dormant period. They can take fairly intense sunlight. In full light the colors are more vivid and striking, and the plant form is more beautiful and compact; without enough light the leaves turn light green and become flat and sparse. They are suitable for open-air cultivation. They grow well in climates that are warm in winter and cool in summer, and do not tolerate hot, humid summer weather. Apart from a brief dormancy during the high summer heat, they basically keep growing the rest of the time. When sunlight is abundant, they show an intoxicating pink, with egg-shaped leaves like ripe peaches.

3. Watering

The watering principle for peach eggs is the same as for most other Crassulaceae plants: water thoroughly only when completely dry, and do not water when not dry. Leaf drop happens because there is too much water, or because too much water is given when the seasons change, so that lightly touching the leaves makes them fall off easily; use less water, or increase water gradually, and you can mostly avoid leaf drop. As long as the fallen leaves are plump, they can all be leaf-propagated, and they root very easily.

4. Propagation

Peach eggs can be propagated by leaf cuttings, stem cuttings, or sowing seeds. After beheading, they tend to grow side branches; if not beheaded and kept growing, the plant's old stem grows very long, and only then does it start branching. To make it prettier, when it has grown about enough you should behead it to stimulate side buds, so that the plant forms a nice clump.

Peach eggs need careful tending; a clumping plant is very beautiful and striking, and with good care it will also produce pretty little flowers.