If your succulent looks ugly, chop it in half at the middle; one pot becomes many pots, and you end up with both old stems and young plantlets.

Many people love cute succulents and like to keep a few pots at home, but when caring for succulents, problems are inevitable. For example, a succulent becomes leggy and loses all its shape. So, what should you do after a succulent grows leggy? And when is the right time to behead it?

The causes of leggy succulent growth are, first, a lack of light, and second, too much watering. In summer, many succulents are in a semi-dormant state, so we need to shade them and let them get through summer smoothly. Succulents cannot get enough light, so at this time we can only prevent leggy growth by controlling water.

So after a succulent grows leggy, we can save its shape by beheading it. Beheading is the way to do it. The best time to behead is in spring and autumn, because these two seasons are when succulents grow vigorously. After beheading, the stem below will quickly, very quickly, sprout many small side shoots, producing the phenomenon of multiple heads.

The part you cut off can be used directly for cuttings. After letting it dry for a few days, place it on slightly moist soil in a shaded spot, and it will soon take root, and then it becomes a new succulent. We can also pull off some leaves and place them on the soil to propagate succulents by leaf, which is also a way of propagating succulents.

When beheading, we should note that we need to use a relatively sharp blade and cut it off in one go at a suitable spot. Then apply carbendazim to the wound and put it in a cool, ventilated place to let the wound heal slowly.

In spring and autumn, succulents grow relatively fast and the sprouting rate is relatively high. It is summer now, the temperature is relatively high, and succulents are in a semi-dormant state. If you behead them, the cut branches are not easy to root as cuttings. And they are also not likely to sprout small shoots, so we had better wait until spring and autumn to behead them.

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