Dozens of pots of succulent plants bought by friends are left with empty pots after summer. what's the situation?

Spring bought hundreds of pots of succulent, after the summer basically left an empty basin, this is why? Most places in summer are hot and humid, and what succulent plants fear most is this kind of maintenance environment. Shade should be kept after the temperature exceeds 33 degrees, ventilation should be improved, and watering should be controlled, otherwise plants are prone to sunburn.

Here are the succulent plants that need to pay attention to in summer.

The first point: proper shading

Although succulent plants like a sunny environment, they need proper shade when the temperature exceeds 33 degrees, otherwise the hot direct light in summer will burn the leaves of succulent plants, and the sunburned leaves cannot be recovered. will leave permanent scars.

When the summer temperature is high and the sun is strong, succulent plants can be placed in an appropriate shaded place, where light can be seen appropriately in the morning or evening, and shade when the sun is strong at noon and afternoon.

Of course, you can also put up a sunshade next to the maintenance of succulent plants, and you can buy shading nets with different degrees of sun according to the intensity of the sun, usually 50-70% sunshades.

The second point: pay attention to the succulent care you just bought.

If it is a newly bought succulent plant, it is necessary to keep it in a shaded place in summer. You can not bask in the sun at first. You can slowly scatter light two or three weeks later. However, in places with high temperatures, it is best to avoid buying delicate succulent plants online, otherwise they can easily become stuffy during the journey, especially during the period of high temperature.

However, you can raise some summer-type succulent plants, such as love vines, in summer. That is, succulent varieties that do not dormancy or have a very short dormancy period in summer. Avoid raising succulent plants that are dormant in summer or succulent plants that are particularly afraid of heat.

It is best not to buy some leafy succulent plants in summer. It is not convenient to breed succulent plants in summer, even if they survive, it is difficult to grow up.

The third point: strengthen ventilation

In summer, plants are easy to be infected with fungal diseases, the leaves of succulent plants are easy to dissolve water, serious ones can cause black rot and other conditions, but also easy to induce insect pests.

Maintenance of succulent plants in summer must pay attention to maintain environmental ventilation, do not raise in the environment airtight space, strengthen ventilation can, have better heat dissipation capacity, but also can reduce the surrounding temperature.

If the environment is not ventilated, succulent plants are easy to die. In addition to putting them in a well-ventilated place, you can also put small fans next to them to enhance ventilation.

Fourth point: the key to watering

Many friends raise succulent plants, most of them die in summer, many of the reasons are that they are watered too frequently. Succulent plants should pay attention to water control in summer. Most plants slow down their growth rate when the temperature is high, and some plants even stop growing.

Avoid watering when it is hot at noon and in the afternoon. if it is a dewy succulent plant, if it rains, the leaf area of the succulent plant has a lot of water. Clean up these droplets in time at noon and afternoon to avoid burns to the plants.

When the temperature is particularly high and the weather is sunny, you can choose to water at night, so as to prevent the water from causing plant burns, and the frequency of watering should be slightly controlled.

Fifth point: pay attention to the protection of diseases and insect pests

Succulent plants are easy to induce diseases and insect pests in summer and should be protected regularly. In addition to maintaining environmental ventilation and proper shading, it is also necessary to clean up and follow up the dead and diseased leaves at the bottom in time.

Regularly clean the surrounding water, keep the environment clean, succulent plants can regularly hand in some fungicides, avoid using old soil cultivation if it is a waste flowerpot should be sterilized and used again.

It is found that aphids and scale insects can be directly wiped with cotton swabs dipped in alcohol, should be isolated from other healthy ones in time, and should be cleaned up in time when ants are found around them.