How do succulents get through summer? This guide teaches you how to easily keep beautiful succulents

Summer is a disastrous season for growing succulents, and many people find it hard to grow them well during this season. Below is a summer survival guide for succulents to teach you how to easily keep beautiful succulents.

1. Temperature

In the scorching summer, temperature is the culprit most likely to injure or even kill succulents! So our succulents should be placed in the coolest spot in the house. If conditions do not allow it, at least provide some shade. There are many kinds of shade measures, such as indoors, or shade netting.

The indoor approach may not be perfect, because it is not ventilated enough, while shade netting is indeed good, but we can also create an even better method. For example, move two quick-setting cement bricks and lay a wooden board across them for shade. Place the succulents under the wooden board. They can even go slightly short of light for the whole summer! This will not affect the appearance of the succulents, because even in the shade in summer, the temperature is not low, and the reflected light from surrounding objects is enough for the plants' metabolism.

2. Humidity

Succulents may not need watering for the whole summer, because it could damage their appearance, but what should we do if the succulents are short of water?

We can place the succulents beside a sink or a well, and within a week the succulents' water-deficient state will visibly improve. For friends without special environments such as a sink, I recommend using a foam box filled with water placed nearby, which can noticeably increase humidity.

3. Soil

Soil quality is the key to retaining moisture. For the soil used for succulents in summer, as long as it can retain moisture without losing it quickly, it is not very important and does not need to be changed. Most soil in which the plants originally grew well is suitable for summer, but we need to add some moisture-retention measures. Adding stones as a top dressing on the soil surface is a very good method; stone cover makes it harder for sunlight to evaporate moisture.

4. Watering

Because when watering at high temperatures, the water forms steam under the soil and then evaporates, and this situation will directly suffocate the succulents. Under normal circumstances, succulents will be fine without watering for a month, but they will lose a few points of appearance. My usual method is to wait until evening and spray a little water, so that a small amount of water can dry within a few hours. Spraying too much water is not good, and it needs to be blown away with something like a straw. If it accumulates in the leaf center and has not dried by the next day, it is easily evaporated by the sun, thus once again creating the effect of smothering the leaf center, leading to the death of the succulents.

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