Pick up a honeycomb coal briquette by the roadside to grow succulents, they grow like crazy and don't die in summer

Dig up a honeycomb coal briquette, and your succulents will never fear death again!

Although living stones (Lithops) are considered a succulent variety that gets through summer quite well, if the summer temperature is too high and they get rained on a bit, they can still die if you're not careful! So today I'll teach you a simple little method, and that is to use honeycomb coal briquettes!

How to do it:

1. If you have honeycomb coal briquettes at home, especially for gardening friends in rural areas, prepare a whole burnt honeycomb coal briquette.

2. Find a clean mesh screen, wrap it around the outer ring of the honeycomb coal briquette, then tie it tight with string.

3. Use the mesh screen to completely cover one end of the honeycomb coal briquette as the bottom, then fix it in place with string.

4. Prepare nutrient soil mixed from peat soil, coconut coir, etc., and pour the nutrient soil into the holes of the honeycomb coal briquette to serve as the nutrient soil for the living stones.

5. Transplant the living stones into the holes of the honeycomb coal briquette, then place them indoors in a spot with good scattered light for care; in the early morning and evening when the sunlight isn't strong, you can let them get a bit of sun.

6. When watering living stones in summer, be careful: you must wait until they wrinkle before watering a little. You can choose to water in the early morning, and also pay attention to ventilation, and your living stones will get through summer safely!

Put coal cinders at the bottom of the pot, and succulents will grow like crazy!

Gardening friends often ask Huahua, how exactly should the soil for succulents at home be mixed? Actually, honeycomb coal briquettes picked up from the roadside are also super useful for mixing soil!

Steps:

1. Crush the coal cinders you picked up by stepping on them, or smash them with a stick, until they are roughly the size of a thumb.

2. Sift them several times with a sieve to separate out the large cinder particles, then soak them in clean water for more than 24 hours. This is because coal cinders produce sulfur when burned and are fairly alkaline, so soak them before use.

3. After soaking, the coal cinders can be laid out in the sun to dry so the water evaporates as quickly as possible, which also serves to sterilise and disinfect them.

4. When repotting succulents, you can place a few pieces of the prepared coal cinders at the bottom of the pot. Not only does this improve drainage and airflow and prevent root rot, but the coal cinders also contain various trace elements that supplement nutrients for the succulents.

5. As for the remaining fine coal cinders, you can mix them with peat soil at a ratio of 2:1 to use as nutrient soil for growing succulents. The soil mixed this way is loose and airy, and will absolutely never cause root rot in your succulents!

As for growing succulents with honeycomb coal briquettes,

that's all Huahua has to share.

Gardening friends, why not give it a try right away!