What precautions should beginners take when growing succulents
Today I'm going to bring you a treat. Many people have just started growing succulents, and for many beginners, growing a plant they have never come into contact with before leaves them completely confused. A whole series of questions and points, such as how to water and how to mix soil, are things beginners need to know and understand. Shuashuai often sees on forums and tieba such as Baidu Zhidao and Baidu Jingyan that some of the most common questions are how to grow such-and-such a succulent, how to water such-and-such a succulent, and so on. In fact, if you search these questions on Baidu, the answers fly across the whole screen, but Shuashuai does not recommend that you memorize them by rote, so below Shuashuai will tell you how beginners should grow succulents!
1. Watering
In fact, growing things comes down to just a few 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 after it has combined with other media. This water exists in the small pores of the medium, while gravitational water is the excess water left after the capillary water is saturated. For example, take a sponge. Suppose it is full of water. If we wring it out, a lot of water will come out, and that 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, and that is capillary water. I do not know whether you can understand it put this way. So when watering, try to water only 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 mix. When you search online, all kinds of soil types are mixed together, and you cannot tell how many mixing methods there are, so there is no need to memorize them by rote. When mixing soil, we are actually all following one rule, because the soil is mixed precisely 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 have a great demand for nutrients. What they need more is 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: use granules and peat soil mixed at a 1:1 ratio, which is best.
3. Flower pots
Many people say that ceramic pots are the 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 soon as they see that the soil in the flower pot is dry, they water it, so they all go and 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. This water will then be carried out along the pot and evaporate. Some people will say that this certainly will not cause root rot. That is right, but if the soil remains dry for a long time, some tender shoots 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 growing, but some people think they look too low-class. In fact, the best are plastic pots.
The above are some of the points beginners need to pay attention to when growing succulents. Have you all learned them? If you are a beginner, you can grow them according to what the editor said. This is better than memorizing by rote all those various answers on Baidu. In fact, once you grow them a lot, you will gain experience. This takes time.