Succulent newbies, keep these 8 "diligences" in mind, and you too can advance to become a master
Many friends may have this doubt: I have been growing succulents for a year or two, but why hasn't my skill level improved? How are those succulent masters, in real life or online, forged? And for myself, how can I improve my own succulent-growing skills? Take a good look at this article; Xiaojingzhi Life will explore with you how a newbie becomes a veteran or even a master.
1. Be diligent in learning
There are many forums online about succulents, and in those forums there are many experienced old flower friends and masters, and they are all happy to share their succulent care experience. Search online more about succulent topics, browse the forums more to see the growth processes and experiences of succulents shared by flower friends, and join more local flower friend groups. Even offline flower market vendors and greenhouse owners, everyone has their own experience. Accumulate this experience, discard the false and keep the true, and sum up care experience that suits you.
2. Be diligent in practice
Why are other people's succulents so plump? Why did other people's succulents color up so quickly? Other people's experience is not just for looking at or listening to; empty talk on paper has no practical use. Refer to other people's experience and get hands-on more: leaf cuttings propagation, beheading, soil mixing, and so on. Try various good methods and use practice to test what methods suit what varieties and what measures suit what regions. What comes out of practice is what suits you.
3. Be diligent in observing
Why did my succulent become leggy? Why did my succulent turn to mush? ... I believe many friends have either asked such questions themselves or heard others ask them. Why? It is really hard to say. Because there are many causes that lead to a certain result, simply asking why may not necessarily get an accurate answer. For example, if a succulent grows leggy, it could be insufficient light or it could be overwatering. At this time, you need to carefully observe your succulent itself as well as the surrounding environment, so that you can further analyze which cause is actually leading to the current problem.
4. Be diligent in analyzing
As mentioned above about being diligent in observing, then, after observing carefully, you need to analyze. Observe the region where you are, observe the temperature environment of your region, observe the recent light intensity, duration, and so on, then analyze whether you have watered too much recently, or whether the light is insufficient, or whether the recent weather is stuffy and hot with insufficient ventilation. Only after analyzing the specific cause this way can you find the corresponding measures and methods.
5. Be diligent in thinking
Once the problem is found and measures are taken, next you should think about how to learn from the previous lesson in the future, and how to improve the environment, temperature, light, watering frequency, and other factors afterward so that your succulents can grow more suitably, and try to avoid the problems that happened before.
6. Be diligent in accumulating
Record in various ways all the experience and lessons, including the problems that appeared before, the measures taken, and the results after taking the measures, and so on. Then when similar problems appear again in the future, you will not be as helpless as you were when you were a newbie, because by then you are already a veteran.
7. Be diligent in communicating
Communication at this point is no longer the simple newbie-style asking of only why. Share the current environment, the recent methods you have used for your succulents, and the current condition and problems of the succulents, and it is best to add some photos as well. Only when you post it this way can others provide reasonable suggestions and methods with basis and focus.
8. Be diligent in sharing
Share your experience selflessly, and you are the legendary master!
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