Does this succulent plant die in the summer? Not exactly! It will be done in 4 skills!

The key to summer: soil

1. Growth habits

Stone flowers originated in southern Africa, like warm, dry, sunny environment, so the soil should choose good air permeability and drainage, so in case of heavy rain, basin soil can also quickly drain water to ensure that the roots breathe normally.

2. Soil selection

Ordinary granular soil or humic sand gravel and rotten leaf soil can be used to mix 2~3mm-sized granular materials, such as honeycomb cinder, coarse sand, red jade soil, peat and so on.

3. Tips for cooling

When the temperature is high in summer, a layer of pebbles can be spread on the surface of the basin soil to protect against the sun and cool down, which is beneficial to the growth of root system.

The key to summer 2: watering

A flower friend asked, if stone flowers are dormant in summer, is there no need to water them? However, the stone flowers raised by ordinary families are not dormant at all. The key to a safe summer is how and how much water is watered.

1. Better dry than wet

Many people have misunderstandings about watering, thinking that dry and thoroughly watered will do, but hot and humid in summer, watering through is easy, drying through is very difficult, and the result is either growing or dying. If you water less, you will grow more slowly at most, and it will never have much effect.

Take the 2-year-old seedling with the size of 1cm as an example, the flower has not watered it for more than a month, but the state is still very full and does not grow only, indicating that the demand for water is very small.

2. Watering in the evening

The stomata on the leaves are closed during the day and open at night, so the watering time should be chosen as evening or evening as possible, and the windows should be opened in time for ventilation after watering. You can also choose to spray the body surface to cool down at night.

The key to summer 3: lighting

1. Indoor maintenance

In summer, indoor glass will block a large part of ultraviolet rays, without shade, but to ensure uniform light for a long time, and be sure to do a good job of ventilation.

2. Outdoor maintenance

Raw stone flowers like light, high temperature, but not the stronger the better, outdoor maintenance must avoid strong light exposure, can pull 75% shading rate of the black sunshade net.

3. It depends on the variety

Different varieties of raw stone flowers have different light tolerance, such as Rilun jade, Lumei jade, Zixun, Fulaiyu, barren jade and so on, while the varieties such as pattern jade, micro-grain jade, Otsu Hui and Lihong jade are weaker.

The key to summer 4: pest control

Stone flowers are often harmed by root pink scale, the symptom is that the roots are covered with milky white cotton wool, summer is the peak period of root pink scale reproduction, serious insect pests can lead to the slow death of stone flowers.

Prevention and control measures

1. Put an end to the source of insects: new plants should be thoroughly disinfected, and foreign potted soil had better not be used.

2. Physical control: when insect pests are found, the roots, pots and soil of the whole plant should be thoroughly trimmed, changed and changed in time. Rinse the white powder and adults of the roots with water when trimming the roots.

3. Drug prevention and treatment: burying some carbofuran particles in the soil around the root can achieve the preventive effect; the therapeutic drugs can be treated with Guoguang scale and the combination of sprinkler and irrigation has obvious effect.

Have you learned the strategy of spending the summer with stone flowers?

Hurry up and use it!