This kind of succulent plant looks like a bunch of money, and it's fresh and lovely. It's a big loss.

Star prince, crassulaceae green lock dragon is a succulent plant, because it is similar to the ancient string of copper coins, also known as "money string", isn't it very interesting? Let's have a look!

1. The color change of the Star Prince

Its leaves are opposite, the leaves are heart-shaped or long-triangular, and the leaves are dark green. In the cool season of winter and early spring or under sunny conditions, the leaves are reddish brown or brown, with a white stratum corneum on the edge. The leaves of the whole plant are arranged tightly and neatly, gradually becoming smaller from the base up, forming a pagoda, which is a strange and beautiful succulent plant. The star prince blossoms beige and blooms from May to June.

2. Growth environment light

Star Prince should be sunny and warm, dry environment, avoid wet water, hot and muggy and too shady, resistant to drought and semi-shade. Growth period in winter, to give sufficient light, otherwise the lack of light will affect the color and luster of the leaves. Growth period in winter, to give sufficient light, otherwise the lack of light will affect the color and luster of the leaves.

3. Watering and fertilization

Keep the basin soil moist without stagnant water and apply mature rarefied liquid fertilizer or compound fertilizer with low nitrogen and high phosphorus and potassium every half a month. The application amount should not be too much, lest the stems and leaves grow too long, the distance between internodes elongate, make the plant loose, seriously affect the ornamental.

4. Summer ventilation

The Star Prince's plant is dormant or semi-dormant in high temperature in summer, and the plant growth is slow or completely stopped. it should be kept in a place with cool ventilation, bright light and no direct sunlight, and there is no need to pour too much water to prevent decay.

5. Temperature

Put it in a sunny place indoors in winter, more than 10 ℃ can make the plant continue to grow. It should be watered properly. If you keep the pot soil dry and make the plant dormant, it can also withstand the low temperature of 5 ℃.

6. Change the basin

When the plant is full of flowerpots, the pot should be changed in spring, and the pot soil should be loose, fertile and have good drainage. It should be mixed with garden soil, coarse sand or vermiculite and 1 part of rotten leaf soil, and a small amount of bone powder and chicken and cow dung should be added as base fertilizer. Perennial plants can produce very beautiful flowers.

7. Reproduction

There are three ways for star princes to reproduce:

(1) ramet

Separate the densely growing plants, one clump every 3 to 4, and then plant them directly in the pot.

(2) cutting

During the growing season, the top branches were cut and cut in sandy soil. Each cuttage should have more than 4 pairs of leaves, 3 cm long and 5 cm long. Under the condition of 18 ℃ and 24 cm, the cuttings were slightly moist and rooting for 2 weeks and 3 weeks.

(3) sowing

The seeds can be collected and sown from April to May. Under the condition of about 20 ℃, the seeds germinate within two weeks after sowing, and the seedlings grow faster.