How do you grow potted succulents so they look beautiful?

Succulent plants are hugely popular right now, and the prices of these fleshy little plants have risen along with it. Some succulent fans blindly chase after having the biggest and most complete collection of varieties, while others just focus on growing them and never think about how to grow them more beautifully, or how to let them adorn your life more beautifully? If you don't have that much space at home, or if the area you live in isn't suited to outdoor growing, then just grow one or two pots well, and let them make your life shine. If you're a succulent fan, start now: drop all those countless pots and containers, start by growing just one, and don't feel you have to chase rare and expensive varieties, because common ones have their own most beautiful spring too.

Succulent plants, fleshy and plump, are extremely cute, and people fear dropping them when holding them in their hands and fear melting them when holding them in their mouths. The first time I saw a succulent, I was drawn in by its beauty. Now I've truly become a succulent addict and fallen completely into the hobby. In my spare time I wander through the major flower markets, admiring these beautiful little charmers, and when I find a suitable one I naturally take it home to enjoy slowly. Succulent plants are small and cute, come in rich and varied colors, and have chubby cheeks, and they are hailed as the good-looking goods of the plant world and the favorite of office ladies. Many people wonder how these good-looking goods are grown. Let's find out.

1. Soil

Soil is the only reliable source of nutrition for plants and the medium that plants must have to take root and grow. Soil has the ability to protect and regulate itself. If there are pests and diseases, the plants will die, and ultimately the pests and diseases will lose their breeding ground. Once the pests and diseases starve to death, the soil is still healthy soil. If the soil has no fertility, the plants will not grow until nutrients brought by rain and air restore the soil's vitality. For succulent soil, the recommendation is a soil that is well aerated and well drained and does not easily clump.

2. Ventilation

Ventilation is very important, and on hot, stuffy summer nights ventilation should be increased. When growing indoors, open the windows more to increase ventilation; the most common mold, as well as the appearance of other bugs, is caused by being in a closed state for a long time with poor air circulation. Poor ventilation also easily breeds powdery mildew, especially on succulent plants such as Fire Stick (Euphorbia tirucalli).

3. Light

In summer, be careful of long exposure to high temperatures; succulent plant tissue cells are thick and plump and dissipate heat slowly, making leaf sunburn very easy. In other seasons, full sunlight helps the plants grow. (There are many plants that need shade, such as Haworthia species with tender green translucent leaves, which need to be protected from sunburn.) Plenty of sunlight plus a large temperature difference will make succulent plants turn even redder and more vivid.

4. Temperature

A temperature of 15 to 28 is most suitable, and a temperature of 5 to 35 is the limit the plants can tolerate. To grow succulents well, the temperature difference is very important. The so-called temperature difference is the difference between morning and evening temperatures, and outdoor growing makes it easier for them to show their best condition! Most succulent plants are distributed in tropical and subtropical regions, but they are not simply afraid of cold and not of heat; rather, depending on the species and the climatic conditions of their distribution areas, they have diverse temperature requirements.

5. Humidity

Maintaining a certain level of air humidity during the growing period of succulent plants is quite important. When the plants enter the growing period, the role of air humidity at this time is obvious. If some horticultural varieties with rich color changes can maintain considerable air humidity, their colors will be even more brilliant. It can be said that basically most varieties need a certain amount of humidity at this time. During the dormant period, however, the control of air humidity must be quite cautious, and the first to be affected are some summer-dormant varieties with a higher degree of succulence.

5. Water

Water when dry and let it be wet; when watering, water thoroughly. After watering, do not expose the plant to strong sun; place it in a low-light, cool, shady spot. The so-called "water when dry" means that after watering once, wait until the soil surface turns pale and the moisture in the surface layer and the interior of the soil has dissipated before watering a second time; you cannot wait until the soil in the pot has been completely dry for a long time before watering. The so-called "let it be wet" means that each time you water, you must water thoroughly, that is, water until water seeps out of the drainage holes at the bottom of the pot. Using the water-when-dry-and-let-it-be-wet method of watering both satisfies the water these plants need to grow and ensures the oxygen needed for root respiration, which is beneficial for robust plant growth.

6. Landscaping

I believe friends who like multicolored paintings can quickly put together beautiful succulent arrangements. When combining succulent plants, you need to remember to reserve enough space to give them more room to grow; a tightly packed arrangement can only maintain its effect for a very short time. In addition, pay attention to the growth forms of the fleshy plants, such as trailing types, tree-like types, and coral-like types, and also pay attention to their habits. Combining succulent plants with different habits together brings a lot of inconvenience in watering and sunlight, so when combining them you must take these three points into consideration.

Closing remarks:

To be honest, how to grow succulent plants so they look beautiful can be described both very simply and very complexly. Simply put, when succulent plants look beautiful is when they show their best condition, and to grow succulent plants well and bring out their best condition, without leggy growth and without wilting, requires plant lovers to put in a good deal of effort. To grow beautiful succulent plants, we must first grow the succulent plants well and figure out their habits, so that on the basis of growing them well we can gradually master them.