Growing Succulents in Summer: Let Them Stretch All You Want - If They Do, You've Struck It Lucky

Once summer arrives, succulents all stretch out into leggy messes together, and many plant lovers really feel awful about it. Looking at the succulents they worked so hard to grow for a whole year, their beautiful shapes have been forced into leggy, scraggly forms and turned as green as vegetables. But plant lovers with a good attitude feel that as long as they stay alive, leggy succulents can still become old stems - and that counts as a win.

In many circles of succulent growers, there really is a saying: no stretching, no old stems! So leggy growth in summer is no big deal - raise them well, and as long as they don't die, they'll become big old stems. Though it's meant as comfort, it's not without reason.

Leggy growth - just mentioning it gets almost every succulent grower worked up. Yes, the once compact and neat succulents, after being bought and grown for a while with careful watering and even a dedicated succulent spray bottle, once summer hits, all become as thin and elongated as bean sprouts.

Especially after the summer survival period ends, those with too much water and too little light all uniformly become leggy. For succulents known for being compact, stocky and plumply fleshy, suddenly turning into something like big spinach is genuinely a bit hard to accept. But it's really fine - as long as the succulents are still alive, when they grow leggy you can do this:

1. Cut from the middle of the leggy plant, removing a few leaves with wider spacing;

2. Replant the stem with the leaves removed and wait for it to take root, and use the removed leaves for leaf propagation;

The above method is commonly known as beheading. Of course, there are also those who don't deal with leggy growth at all and just let it develop. In that case, every 7 days use a succulent-specific organic nutrient solution, diluted 500 times, to water the roots once. You'll find that before long the tender branches will become woody, and the leggy succulent will develop toward becoming an old stem.

So when it comes to leggy growth, it depends on how you look at it - everyone appreciates things differently, so their understanding of leggy growth differs too. In short, the editor thinks: compact has compact beauty, leggy has leggy charm, and in summer, as long as it's alive, you've struck it lucky.