How to plant succulents after they arrive from online shopping

Before planting, choose a suitable flower pot and potting soil. Generally, a wide-mouthed round or flat flower pot is best, and the soil is generally best as loose, fertile sandy loam; if you do not have it, you can buy it directly from a flower shop. After buying it, put some crushed stones at the bottom of the pot, add a small amount of soil, then place the succulent upright inside, and finally cover it slowly with soil and put it in a ventilated and bright place. After two or three days, water it lightly.

Notes on growing succulents:

1. Watering

Actually, growing this thing is nothing more than a few key elements. First, the editor will start with watering. Watering is sometimes a technical job, so do not underestimate it. First, we should water with capillary water, not gravitational water. Gravitational water is what we need to avoid during watering. You may not quite understand these two terms. Capillary water is actually the water combined with other media; this water exists in the small pores of the medium. Gravitational water is the excess water after the capillary water is saturated. For example, take a sponge full of water. If we wring it out, a lot of water will come out; this is gravitational water. But the remaining water in the sponge cannot be wrung out, no matter how you swing it, it still will not come out; this is capillary water. I do not know if everyone can understand it put this way. So when watering, try to water to the point of capillary water and avoid gravitational water; just use this rule as the standard.

2. Soil mixing

Besides watering, the next thing is the choice of soil mixing. You may search online and find all kinds of soil types mixed together, and there is no telling how many mixing methods there are, so there is no need to memorize them by rote. When mixing soil, we actually all follow one rule, because mixing soil is done just to meet this requirement. There are three points in total: water retention capacity, nutrient content, and air permeability. These three points are the rules that succulent soil mixing needs to follow, but succulents actually do not need much nutrient content; they need more water. Why are succulents so plump? Is it not because they are full of water? So the soil's water retention capacity should be good. Here the editor recommends one soil mixing method: using granules and peat soil in a 1:1 ratio is best.

3. Flower pot

Many people say that ceramic pots are best for growing succulents because they are very breathable, and even if you water too much, you do not have to worry about root rot. Many beginners have a kind of compulsion: as long as they see that the soil in the flower pot is dry, they will water it, so they all use ceramic pots. In fact, good drainage is also a big flaw of ceramic pots, because there are many small gaps on the inner walls of ceramic pots, so water will be absorbed by these gaps. Therefore, this water will be carried out along the pot and then evaporate. Some people will say that this will definitely not cause root rot. That is right, but if the soil stays dry for a long time, some tender buds will dry up and enter a dormant state, so it is also a kind of harm to the plant. So it is better to use porcelain pots for planting, but some people think they look too low-class. In fact, the best choice is plastic pots.

The above is the relevant introduction on how to plant succulents bought online. I hope it helps everyone.