How to raise succulent butterflies methods and matters needing attention in succulent breeding

Jade butterfly is a common species in family ornamental culture. If you want to put a small plant on your empty windowsill, the succulent butterfly can be your first choice. Its shape is petite and fleshy, and it looks a bit like a lotus. Next, let's take a look at how the jade butterfly should be cultured, its breeding methods and matters needing attention.

How to raise the succulent butterfly

1. Watering

Jade butterfly is a desert plant, which can grow normally even if it has less water. But the plants in the family will be more delicate than those in the wild. Under the premise of sufficient light, the plants in the family should be watered frequently, and the basin soil should be watered as soon as the soil dries. As for the watering time, it is watered at noon in spring and winter and cool in the afternoon or evening in summer.

2. Soil

Despite the fact that the flesh of the jade butterfly looks very delicate, it has a strong heart. Strong adaptability to the environment, general soil is fine. Do not choose clayey soil such as loess.

3. Lighting

The jade butterfly will enter the dormant period in summer, but it is not obvious that the plant will grow slowly during the dormant period, and sufficient light is necessary. But at noon in summer, the sun is so hot that no one can bask in it. So it should be properly shaded at noon. At other times, the light is normal.

4. Ventilation and seedling retardation

Jade butterfly likes well-ventilated environment, and it is easy to breed bacteria in muggy and humid environment. Most of the family's jade butterflies are purchased directly from the Internet or florist and need to slow down. Jade butterfly species in moist soil, placed in a bright ventilated place for 1-2 weeks, gradually increase light, appropriate watering, gradually plant bottom leaves will aging, normal phenomenon, grow new leaves.

Methods and matters needing attention in succulent culture of jade butterfly

1. Methods of reproduction

The reproduction of jade butterfly can be combined with changing pots in spring for ramet, and the small rosette leaves can be cut off in the growing season, all of which are easy to survive; if a large number of propagation can be done with strong and fleshy leaves during the growing period, cuttings can be carried out after drying for 1-2 days, and the soil will be slightly moist after cutting. after 2-3 weeks, new buds and roots can grow at the base of the leaves and become new plants.

2. Watering

Jade butterfly grows fast, under the premise of sufficient light, it can give it enough water, and the soil can be watered once when the soil is nearly dry. The watering time can choose the warmer time near noon in spring and winter and the cooler time in the afternoon or evening in summer. If you can not grasp the correct watering rhythm, then, touch the leaves of the butterfly, feel that the leaves are soft, that is the symptom of lack of water.

With soil, you can choose soil with good permeability and drainage, such as peat soil and granular soil at 1:1, or you don't have to be so fastidious, using garden soil, but pay attention to watering frequency, the garden soil is easy to accumulate water, damp and impervious.

3. Flowerpot

Tile basin: very easy to use, economic, breathable, drainage is a bit heavy, but generally speaking is still very affordable, but for batch planting is still poor, planting greenhouse batch planting is still black square or all kinds of plastic pots.

Plastic basin: choose some thicker materials, high toughness, low-quality plastic is not very resistant to the sun, can be crisped out in a summer, if you choose plastic basin or suggest more particles or pure particles, but also look at your soil, if you use the combination of plastic basin and garden soil, you should pay attention to watering in summer, the air permeability of plastic basin is relatively poor, after a day of exposure. If you take a look at the inside of the basin (the kind of soft plastic basin that is cut directly with scissors), the soil is hot. If the soil is still wet on such a hot day, the root of the plant is almost the same as the steamed bread on the drawer. Black rot lingers here.

Porcelain basin: air permeability is not very good, easy to accumulate water.

Red pottery basin: air permeability is too good, easy to dry.

That kind of flowing glaze style coarse pottery basin: personal feeling is OK, no matter what basin, breathable good to pour more water, bad less watering more ventilation.

4. Change the basin

The jade butterfly grows very fast, it is suggested to use a larger basin to grow it, the first year to change the basin, the pile is old, can be changed once every two years, mainly depends on the size of your plant, half a year long pot explosion can not, can be changed ahead of time, the basin can be selected in spring and autumn, shed can also be changed in winter, summer can also be changed, that is, the basin for a long time, or black rot will occur when serving the basin.

Breeding methods of Jade Butterfly

1. Leaf cutting

Jade butterfly leaves to choose thick leaves, try to choose the middle part. The leaves were cleaned and inserted directly into the soil after disinfection, but the growth time was slow and the survival rate was low. It's better to suggest cutting branches.

2. Branch cutting

Jade butterflies like to grow in groups, and can grow many plants in one pot, so they can directly cut off their heads and reproduce. A lot of small heads will grow under the adult jade butterflies. Pour a little water a few days before preparing for cutting and break off the small heads directly. Pay attention to break decisively and reduce the area of the wound.

Put the broken head in a cool and ventilated place to dry for a day, and you can plant it directly! Planting should not be too deep, 1 cm to 2 cm. After planting in a pot, don't water it for a month, wait for the root to grow, and then water it. Move the small basin to a ventilated and bright place to avoid excessive light, which will reduce the survival rate if the light is too strong or too dark. After the seedlings grow out, you can increase the light.

Causes of cracking of jade butterfly leaves

1. Too much watering

Jade butterfly is a desert plant with strong root system and strong ability to absorb water. When watering too much, the water content of the plant is high, the leaf expands, and it makes an immune response, and the leaf produces cracks to facilitate evaporation of water.

2. Lack of light

The crack of jade butterfly is a sign of poor growth. Succulent plants are loved not only because of their cute appearance, but also because of their response to the environment. When the light is insufficient, the butterfly can only reduce its own nutrient consumption in this way.

The solution to the cracking of jade butterfly leaves

It is not a big problem for the leaves to crack. It is necessary to control the water and increase the light properly in the subsequent maintenance. The plant is usually placed on a sunny windowsill and exposed to the sun throughout the day.

If the crack is serious, it is recommended to directly cut off the head and re-cut. Because it is difficult for the plant to return to its previous state, it would be better to insert a new pot. Many small ones can grow at the bottom of the diseased plant, so it is necessary to clean up the floating leaves in time.

The main use of the jade butterfly is to watch, so friends with ideas can give it a try. It's just that the cold tolerance of the jade butterfly is worse than that of other species, and winter is a great challenge in the process of breeding, which requires friends to know more about its growth habits to help the butterfly survive the winter safely!