How do you grow the succulent Echeveria 'Yudie' so it easily clumps up? Growing methods and precautions

Yudie, also known as stone lotus, jade dish, gem flower, and lotus palm. It is a perennial succulent herbaceous or subshrub plant. Although many people grow it, they don't know how to grow Yudie so it easily clumps up? What are the growing methods and precautions?

1. Introduction to Yudie

Yudie variegata is a variegated cultivar of the succulent plant Yudie, and looks similar to Fuji. The Yudie variegata plant is a perennial succulent herbaceous or subshrub, a small to medium-sized variety.

Yudie variegata is a succulent plant in the Crassulaceae family, genus Echeveria, a variegated cultivar of Yudie, and looks similar to Fuji. Yudie variegata is a perennial succulent herbaceous or subshrub, a small to medium-sized variety. Yudie variegata sends out creeping stems from the base, and small rosette leaf clusters grow at the tips of the creeping stems, rooting as soon as they touch soil and becoming new plants. Therefore, Yudie variegata grown in the ground for many years can often grow in patches, though Yudie variegata grows much more slowly than Yudie.

The fleshy leaves of the Yudie variegata plant are arranged in a rosette, the leaves are short and spoon-shaped, slightly upright, with a rounded tip that has a small point, curving slightly inward, giving the whole plant a somewhat funnel shape. The leaf color is light green or blue-green in the middle, with yellow-white on both sides. The leaves are somewhat thin, and the leaf surface has a slight white powder or waxy layer, so it is not too afraid of water. The cyme of Yudie variegata is axillary, and the flowers bloom in an inverted bell shape, with 5 lobes at the front. They are red with yellow tips, and the flowering period is from June to August.

2. Introduction to growing methods

Soil: Yudie actually does not have very high requirements for the medium. Ordinary nutrient soil can grow it, and if you can add a little coal cinder to it, that would be even more perfect.

Watering: Its demand for water is not very great either. Once a week is enough. In summer it does not have a very obvious dormant period, so there is no need to cut off water either; just water as usual. In winter, when the temperature is very low, water must be cut off to avoid frost damage. Do not water onto the leaves. Yudie leaves have powder, and watering will also wash the powder off, so just water directly at the roots and avoid the leaves. If water droplets remain on the leaves, wipe them off in time to avoid sunburn on the leaves from direct sunlight during the day.

Light: It can take all-day light, is slightly tolerant of half shade, and should be properly shaded in summer.

Propagation: Yudie can be propagated by leaf cuttings, but only plump leaves with an intact growth point will work. However, leaf cuttings sprout very slowly; my record is 3 months before sprouting. Beheading and cuttings, division, and sowing are all possible, and the success rate is very high.

Pests and diseases: Yudie is very prone to infection by pathogens, so whether or not there is a problem, you can appropriately spray a little carbendazim and Huahuashen or the like.

What to know when potting: After a mail-order seedling has its roots trimmed and is potted, it will consume the leaves on the outermost ring at the very bottom. There is no need to worry when you see the leaves wither, because rooting needs nutrients, and it sacrifices the outer ring of leaves to supply nutrients to the roots. At this time you do not need to remove the dried leaves, because if you remove them it will then sacrifice the leaves above. What needs attention is that repotting and fertilizing are strictly forbidden in summer.

3. Precautions

Because Yudie flowers have strong vitality and are relatively easy to plant, leaf cuttings are generally chosen in production and practice. It is prone to pests and diseases, so in preventing pests and diseases, some effort must also be put in and preventive measures must be done well. It needs to receive sufficient sunlight for the leaf color to be vivid and for the plant shape to be more compact and beautiful, with thicker leaves. Too little sunlight will make the leaf color lighter, the leaves loosely arranged and stretched, and the leaves thinner. Under strong light and large day-night temperature differences or during low-temperature periods in winter, the leaf tips will turn slightly red.

Yudie should be watered by the principle of seeing dry and seeing wet; be sure to water only after it is dry, and slow-release fertilizer can be applied.

Yudie propagation uses leaf cuttings as well as beheading and division, and can also be sown. Beheading can be done all year round. For leaf cuttings, choose plump leaves, but leaf cuttings are relatively slow, and the variegation also easily degrades, so propagation is basically by beheading and division.

4. Does Yudie bloom

Yudie is a succulent plant that does bloom. The general raceme grows with the inflorescence curved in a scorpioid shape. The inflorescence is a monochasial cyme that is axillary. The flowers grow in a bell shape, with 5 lobes at the front, red, with yellow tips, exceptionally beautiful.

The flowering period of Yudie flowers is generally between June and August each year, during which the flowers bloom abundantly and gorgeously.