Fifteen laws of growing succulents, and nearly half of succulent lovers agree with the first one

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It is rare for me to post a long text post, and I do not have much useful experience to share. Just treat it as a record... In academics, or in life, there are always quite a few laws, but what I did not expect is that growing succulents also has quite a few laws!

Broken Window Effect / Damaged Succulent Effect

If the window of a car by the roadside is broken and not repaired in time, the car will be damaged more and more severely, even dismantled. In the succulent circle, it is like this: if you grow a succulent badly and throw it outdoors, it will become more and more beautiful, and then... be stolen.

Barrel Law / Arrangement Law

The barrel law means that how much water a barrel can hold depends entirely on its shortest stave. In the succulent circle, the arrangement law means that whether succulents planted together look good depends on the succulent that is least tolerant of light or most fond of water, and those with similar habits are better placed together.

The 80/20 Rule

The 80/20 Rule is widely applied in various scenarios, for example, 80% of the results in the work you complete come from 20% of your effort; while 80% of your effort only brings 20% of the results; for example, 80% of a country's wealth is in the hands of only 20% of the people.

In the succulent circle, it is like this: the more you fiddle around in every way, the more beautiful your succulents will not necessarily become. For example, watering every day, moving this one here and that one there, and spraying this medicine and that medicine whenever something feels off. Succulents often need far less than that; grown outdoors with less fussing, they are more likely to run wild and be beautiful on their own. In addition, 80% of succulents are not widely known, while 20% of succulents are talked about with great relish.

Highest Temperature Effect / Beauty After Summer

The hottest time of each day is always around 2 p.m. We always think the sun is strongest at this time, but in fact the sun has already moved west by then and is no longer providing the greatest heat. The reason the temperature is highest at this time is simply the accumulation of heat from before. As everyone knows, succulents are at their most beautiful in autumn and winter, but this does not come from accumulation in summer. No matter how badly they are ravaged in summer, succulents will always become beautiful again!! However... that also requires them to still be alive after summer.

Bandwagon Effect

The bandwagon effect is also called the herd effect, referring to people often being influenced by the majority and following the thoughts or behavior of the crowd. On some professional succulent forums, such as Xianzhen and Duorou Dabenying, all kinds of beautiful succulent photos are posted, and more and more people jump one after another into this big succulent pit, buying, buying, buying.

Veblen Effect / Expensive Means Premium Goods

The higher the price of a product is set, the more favored it is by consumers. The consumer tendency in which the higher the product price, the more willing consumers are to buy was first noticed by the American economist Veblen, and was therefore named the "Veblen Effect."

In shopping malls, ordinary succulents costing dozens to hundreds are all great value, buy, buy, buy!!! Also, some directly classify succulents as premium goods, junk goods, and ordinary goods. Premium goods are always popular, even if ordinary goods, when beautiful, are no worse than premium goods.

Celebrity Effect / Famous Succulent Effect

The celebrity effect is the effect achieved by the appearance of a celebrity in drawing attention, strengthening things, and expanding influence, or the general term for the psychological phenomenon of people imitating celebrities. For example, celebrity endorsement advertisements can stimulate consumption, and celebrities attending charity events can drive society to care for the weak, and so on.

Every year there are always a few succulents that are very popular. Although their price is high, they still cannot stop the enthusiasm of succulent lovers, buying, buying, buying.

Wine and Sewage Law / Mealybug Law

It means that if you pour a spoonful of wine into a barrel of sewage, you get a barrel of sewage; if you pour a spoonful of sewage into a barrel of wine, you still get a barrel of sewage. In other words, it does not depend on how much sewage there is; as long as it exists, it will cause damage to the whole.

Putting a succulent with disease or pests together with other succulents will not purify it, but may instead bring disaster to the other succulents. For example, if one pot of succulents has mealybugs... and it is placed together with other succulents... then the other succulents will have mealybugs too.

Murphy's Law

If something bad can happen, no matter how small the possibility is, it will always happen and cause the greatest possible loss. Whether you want it or not, succulents will always get mealybugs. Whether you are willing or not, they will always get black rot in summer.

Domino Effect

If you do not pay attention to preventing small problems and stopping loopholes, a domino effect may occur in which one falls and a hundred fall. If one mealybug appears and is not controlled even a little, then there may be more and more...

Butterfly Effect

A butterfly in the tropical rainforest of the Amazon River basin occasionally flaps its wings a few times, and two weeks later, it may cause a tornado in Texas, United States. If one mealybug appears, then a few weeks later your succulents may get sooty mold, black rot, and so on...

Crocodile Rule / Quitting the Pit Law

Suppose a crocodile bites your foot. If you use your hand to try to free your foot, the crocodile will bite both your foot and your hand at the same time. The more you struggle, the more you are bitten. So, if a crocodile bites your foot, your only option is to sacrifice one foot.

If your partner has fallen in love with succulents and has neglected you because of it, do not try to stop them, otherwise they will drift further and further away from you. Your best move is, in summer, to buy them a big pile of succulents... After summer, looking at a pile of empty pots, they will suddenly come to their senses.

False Consensus Bias

We usually believe that our hobbies are the same as those of most people. If you like growing succulents, then you may overestimate the number of people who like succulents, and then excitedly open a succulent shop, only to struggle and finally discover that not everyone on the street likes succulents.

Labeling Effect

Psychology believes that the reason the "labeling effect" occurs is mainly because "labels" have a qualitative guiding function. Whether "good" or "bad," they have a strong influence on a person's "self-identification of personality consciousness." The result of putting a "label" on a person is often to make them develop in the direction suggested by the "label."

Little Red Dress and Jingye are labeled like this as dying in summer, and then... they all died in summer. Black Prince and Dongmeiren are labeled as ordinary goods... and then they just cannot become popular.

Birdcage Effect

If you have a nice-looking birdcage at home, then you will be asked endlessly about the following two questions: Where is the bird? Why not keep a bird? In the succulent circle, it is like this: wow, such a nice birdcage, use it to grow succulents, making a succulent birdcage is just right.