How to apply slow-release fertilizer to succulents? A detailed guide to fertilizing methods

Do succulents need fertilizer? Many gardening friends ask this. Many people think only of watering their potted succulents, but do not know how to fertilize them. In fact, if you only water your succulents, this merely keeps the plants alive. To make your succulents grow both vigorously and beautifully, or even fill the pot, we also need to fertilize them appropriately. So, what fertilizer is suitable for succulents? How should you fertilize? Below, the editor will answer these questions for you.

First question: What fertilizer is suitable for succulents?

As everyone knows, succulents usually grow in relatively small pots, and there is relatively little soil in the pot, so the nutrients in the pot are naturally relatively scarce. So, we need to fertilize them, and slow-release fertilizer for succulents is recommended. This is because slow-release fertilizer is usually relatively cheap; a large bag costs only about ten yuan, and each time you fertilize you can take 4-5 slow-release fertilizer granules, so a large bag can be used for one or two years.

Of course, when applying slow-release fertilizer to succulents we need to be especially careful and must not apply too much fertilizer, because succulents have a low demand for fertilizer, and if too much is applied it is easy to burn the roots, causing fertilizer damage.

Second question: ?

When fertilizing any plant you should grasp the right degree, and this is even more true for succulents. As mentioned earlier, if too much fertilizer is applied it will cause root burn. So, during the fertilization process we must be careful again and again.

Below are the specific operation methods/steps for applying slow-release fertilizer to succulents:

1. Slow-release fertilizer is usually used when repotting succulents. After taking the succulent out of the pot, we need to clean off the original soil in the pot.

2. Fill the pot with the new soil prepared in advance, sprinkle 4-5 slow-release fertilizer granules on top of the soil, then continue filling with soil, and repot the unpotted succulent in the normal way; no further details are needed here.

3. In the time afterward, the sprinkled slow-release fertilizer will slowly seep nutrients into the soil, and the succulent will absorb these nutrients through its roots during growth.

The above is the editor's explanation of how to use slow-release fertilizer for succulents, and the editor has also made illustrations for everyone to make it easier to understand. Has everyone learned it? To make your succulents fill the pot sooner, hurry up and supplement nutrients for your succulents.