Keep your succulents alive this summer so you won't be left with empty pots in autumn

Lately, succulent lovers have all been worrying about this problem: they want to grow their succulents outdoors, but the sunlight is too intense, and before you know it the succulents get sunburned. They think that because succulents are plants that quite like light, growing them outdoors in summer should be fine.

What the editor really wants to say here is: if you really do grow them outdoors, then what you'll harvest in autumn isn't plump, chubby succulents, but piles and piles of empty succulent pots!

Although succulents like warm, bright spots, that doesn't mean you should put your succulents outside to grow in the scorching heat of summer, does it? Under intense sunlight, succulents can't hold on for more than a few days.

So, if you don't want to end up collecting empty succulent pots in autumn, then this is how you should grow your succulents in summer!

In the hot summer season, we should keep our succulents in a cool, well-ventilated growing environment. But generally, the people who still want to grow succulents outdoors in summer are almost all beginner succulent growers; experienced growers would never leave their succulents baking in strong light. Succulents are fairly delicate, and once sunburned, they are very hard to bring back.

In the high heat of summer, even people get sunburned after being exposed to strong sunlight for a while, let alone our adorable succulents. So we should not only keep them in a cool, well-ventilated environment, but when necessary - for example, some growers keep their succulents on a windowsill - in that case, from after 10 a.m. until before 5 p.m., you must put up a shade net for your succulents.

We must remember: once a succulent gets sunburned in summer, in mild cases it can be saved; in serious cases you can only wait for the succulent's metabolism to produce new leaves to replace the old ones; and in even more serious cases, it turns to mush and rots from the sun.

The last point is that in the high heat of summer, such as during the hottest period at midday, you absolutely must not water your succulents, otherwise the water, heated by the high temperature, will scald them. This is something to avoid at all costs!

If you don't want to end up collecting dried-out succulents or empty succulent pots in autumn, then this is how you must grow your succulents in summer!