Two Difficulties of Keeping Succulents Through Summer and Their Solutions

Flowers & Gardening Jan 1, 1970 0 views

As temperatures keep climbing, summer has quietly arrived, and before long there will be more and more muggy weather, which is often a "tough challenge" for succulents. How to get succulents smoothly past this hurdle is a difficult problem facing us, especially for beginner flower lovers who like growing succulents and often do not know what to do.

Succulents: How to water succulents during their dormant period?

In the hot summer, for succulents, both light and temperature management and water and fertilizer control are rather troublesome. Perhaps just because these management tasks are not done properly or well enough, they can become a fatal threat to potted succulents. So why is it so difficult for succulents to get through summer? Below, the flower friend editor will analyze the reasons why succulents struggle in summer.

I. Hot and humid growing environment

Succulents tend to grow poorly in summer, or even die, often due to scorching sun exposure, especially in a hot, humid growing environment with poor ventilation. Many flower friends think that shading alone can prevent sunburn or sun-induced death, but this is actually a misconception. After all, so many succulents in the wild under harsh conditions such as high temperatures and blazing sun still grow perfectly well, and rarely die from sun exposure.

Practice has proven that many succulents often enter a dormant state during the high-temperature period in summer, and succulents that have entered dormancy consume very little nutrients and water, so the plants are almost in a state of stalled growth. If water and fertilizer are not controlled in time during this period, it is very easy to create a hot and humid growing environment; combined with poor ventilation, the temperature inevitably cannot be lowered, which increases the chance of bacterial infection, so the plants are more prone to injury or death.

II. The "steamed bun effect"

Everyone knows that steamed buns are cooked by high-temperature steam. For succulents in the scorching high-temperature environment of summer, if watering is done improperly, it is easy to create a large contrast between hot and cold. Especially when watering in the afternoon in summer, under the scorching sun and high temperatures, the water poured in quickly evaporates, and water evaporation requires a large amount of heat absorption, causing the temperature inside the soil to drop sharply while the outside temperature is very high. Under this large hot-cold contrast, the plant easily becomes dehydrated and dies. The plant is just like a steamed bun in a steamer basket, quickly steamed through, so death easily occurs.

Succulents: Succulent cutting methods and later care

It can be seen that watering in summer plays a key role in whether the plant can be harmed. Through the above analysis, when watering succulents in summer we should avoid the high-temperature environment under the scorching sun, and usually water only in the early morning or evening when the temperature is relatively lower. In this way, not only is the water poured in less likely to evaporate so quickly, but it can also be well absorbed by the plant, thus avoiding great harm to the plant caused by watering.

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Two Difficulties of Keeping Succulents Through Summer and Their Solutions

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