Addicted to succulents so deeply that I'd gladly lose everything

Step one of addiction: everyday buy, buy, buy

Once you fall down the rabbit hole, "buy, buy, buy" becomes your daily routine. Wherever succulents are on sale, that's where you'll be.

Succulent stalls and succulent greenhouses become your most frequented spots! When a shop runs a promotion, you wish you could haul the whole stall away!

Double 11 and 618 shopping festivals become your favorite days, because every time they come around, your shopping cart is full of succulents!

Step two of addiction: mastering the professional vocabulary

After falling down the rabbit hole, how could you be satisfied with being a newbie who just buys frantically? Learning professional knowledge and rising to become a succulent master is your ultimate goal!

Fasciation, coloring, black rot, turning to mush... all the effort you never used for the college entrance exam is now spent on growing succulents!

To make your succulents become fasciated, you mastered the skills of beheading and leaf propagation! After beheading, a succulent easily sprouts small heads from the base, forming fasciation.

To make your succulents color up and look even more beautiful, you'd move them from indoors to outdoors every day, just to give them a bigger temperature difference and more light.

When your succulents got black rot and turned to mush, as a newbie you were at a loss, but after being tempered by time, you know to pluck off the leaves with black rot and mush, cut away all the rotted roots, disinfect, and keep them in a ventilated spot for care.

Step three of addiction: starting with ordinary varieties

Still a beginner, you didn't dare buy expensive succulents, so you decided to start with cheap, easy-to-grow ordinary varieties.

To avoid wasting money, you even ordered 1-yuan toothpick seedlings online!

As your succulent-growing skills improve, even cheap ordinary varieties can transform in your hands, and getting them to fill a pot is a piece of cake for you!

Step four of addiction: getting your hands on expensive varieties

Once you've grown ordinary varieties to perfection, your ambitions grow bigger and bigger. Cheap, easy-to-grow ordinary varieties can no longer satisfy your succulent-growing heart, so you start frantically buying expensive varieties!

Expensive succulents grow very slowly. If you're impatient and fertilize heavily to make them grow faster, the succulent will promptly rot its roots right before your eyes. Applying just a little fertilizer in moderation is enough.

Expensive succulents also have strict watering requirements. You must only water once the water in the pot has dried up.

In the early days of care, due to lack of experience, you also killed quite a few expensive varieties, and your heart ached for the money you'd spent!

But as experience accumulates, your expensive succulents also start to fill their pots!

Step five of addiction: embarking on the path of arrangements

Gradually, your aesthetic taste rises rapidly. Simply growing succulents becomes a trivial matter for you, and you start down the path of succulent arrangements!

From the messy arrangements at the beginning to the soaring beauty later on, your arrangement skills improve step by step!

Step six of addiction: pursuing old stems

A few years ago, the "old stem craze" sprang up, and not wanting to fall behind, you started searching for all kinds of strangely shaped old stems!

If you couldn't buy an old stem to your liking, you wouldn't just give up, so you developed your own skill for growing old stems!

To make succulents become old stems faster, more sun, less water, plus plucking leaves are the quickest and most effective measures.

Step seven of addiction: stuffing the balcony full

The result of the buy, buy, buy rhythm is that the balcony gets packed to the brim, without even a spot to set foot!

But in your free time, putting a chair on your little balcony, sipping tea and looking at your succulents, you feel for the first time that life can be this comfortable!

Even though you're terrible at handicrafts, you learned to make flower racks, doing whatever it takes to make full use of the space!

Step eight of addiction: buying a house specifically for a big terrace or courtyard

Succulents love the spring and autumn sunshine. To let your succulents enjoy sunbathing, even when buying a house you first check whether it has a big terrace and whether it comes with a big courtyard!

Walking in your own little succulent courtyard, looking at the succulents turned red all over by the sun, you feel all the hard work before was worth it, and your heart is full of happiness!

Succulents carry risks, fall down the rabbit hole with caution!

Otherwise, before you know it,

you'll be deeply trapped by their charm, unable to pull yourself out!