What is life like in succulent paradise? The answer is all here

Location / Beijing

Editor / Succulent Plant Hub

Although the editor-in-chief has a greenhouse himself and the succulents he grows are not bad either, he still cannot help "drooling" over other people's beautiful succulents. What is going on?

At first, I liked succulents because I was attracted by their colors. What made me curious was how there could be such magical plants, like jelly, and so colorful.

One spring 3 years ago, I fell madly into the succulent pit. Note, madly. The only thing I wanted to do every day was look at succulents, and my greatest wish was to own more succulents.

Then the balcony went from one pot and two pots to forty or fifty pots. And because there was no real channel for learning the precautions for growing succulents, I instead developed my own cultivation method.

Because I entered the pit in spring, the craziest few months happened to coincide with summer. Since I did not know succulents would die in summer, I did not stop buying either, and just kept buying continuously like that.

With normal watering in summer, my succulent mortality rate was about 2%. One Echeveria glauca, one Echeveria secunda, one Baby Toes, and the rest all made it through summer perfectly. Note, my location is Beijing. I do not understand the south, so I cannot give an opinion on it.

Now let's talk about soil mixing. At first, the succulent soil bought from Taobao was also usable, but the roots could never grow strong, and the succulents were also like flat pancakes. By this time I had already started learning to grow succulents, and began to know that many granular materials could be used for top dressing. At that time, no one yet advocated using granular soil to grow Sedum.

I grew two Haworthia cooperi myself, using a little more than half granular material and a little peat. They rooted very quickly, and the roots were also very clean and strong, so I took a few succulents and did experiments.

I remember it was two Echeveria agavoides and two common varieties. After more than a month, the effect was very obvious. The succulents that had their soil changed grew more compactly and a bit fatter, and their colors were also beautiful. The result, of course, was that all succulents were switched to granular soil.

Later I started working on a greenhouse, and it was the same there. All the succulents in the greenhouse used granular soil. It was indeed a bit extravagant, and the cost of the soil was frighteningly high.

But the succulents that grew out were satisfying. Not leggy. Good color, and most importantly, sturdy stems. Low mortality rate. After customers buy them and take them home, as long as the environment is right, growing them into good condition is completely stress-free.

First, a few beautiful photos from the greenhouse!

These are spring photos in the greenhouse. Are they still presentable?

Now let's talk about soil mixing. There are not many photos kept in the greenhouse, so I will post a few comparison pictures of succulents that have already gone to new homes.

After showing the pictures, let's talk about the soil ratio method: 70% maifan stone, a small amount of peat, diatomite and green zeolite, and an appropriate little bit of fine sand. That is basically it.

Finally, let me post one more picture of a beautiful succulent.

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