What you must know about the maintenance of succulent plants in the summer

For many plants, spending summer is like hijacking, so summer conservation must be done. The considerate floral fungus has collected and sorted out several plants that are vulnerable to diseases in summer. Today, let's first tell our friends how to spend the summer with succulent plants.

How to choose the soil?

What are you most afraid of in succulent summer? Of course, the root is stuffy, so we must choose loose, highly permeable soil, such soil particles are generally larger, conducive to the growth of succulent roots, can avoid the problem of poor breathing of succulent roots.

Where should I put it?

The summer weather is so hot that even African friends can't stand it, let alone meat. Although succulent plants are typical drought-tolerant plants, they can't stand long exposure to the sun. It can grow freely in the open air in spring and autumn.

But summer had better be placed in the side of balcony and window, which can not only shine on part of the sun, but also be ventilated. If there is no way, you can also put it indoors, remember not to turn on the air conditioner, otherwise it is easy to cause meat rot.

What kind of ventilation do you need?

The rainy season is a period of high incidence of diseases and insect pests. Ventilation can evaporate succulent moisture and reduce the occurrence of diseases and insect pests. In summer, many meat friends take succulent plants directly to air-conditioned rooms for maintenance, saying that they are ventilated. In fact, the environment of air-conditioned rooms is relatively closed, which not only cannot be ventilated, but also makes succulent plants unable to breathe.

When raising succulent plants indoors, do not close doors and windows for a long time and keep ventilation for at least two hours a day.

In the succulent potted plants with a large amount of peat as the substrate, especially the succulent plants represented by the genus Liriodendron, because of sufficient nutrition, a large number of drooping thick leaves will be left at the bottom of the dormant period, which is not conducive to the ventilation of the rhizome and is easy to breed diseases. therefore, the lower leaves can be cleared for leaf insertion when the succulent growth is exuberant.

How to control the amount of water?

Summer watering must be well controlled, the sun is strong at noon, so avoid watering at noon, generally watering in the morning or evening. Watering follows the principle of "no dry, no watering, watering thoroughly". It should be poured directly in the basin soil, preferably not on the leaf surface.

But to avoid stagnant water in the basin, causing rotten roots. If you don't know when the succulent plant will be watered, you can insert a toothpick or chopstick into the soil to confirm the dryness of the soil or observe the withering degree of the leaves.

If you encounter rainy weather in the south, you don't have to water it, but move it to a balcony or window for shelter from the rain.

How to fertilize?

Succulent plants need suitable fertilizers during the growing period. "thin fertilizer" should be applied frequently, and some appropriate concentration of potassium dihydrogen carbonate can promote the growth of succulent plants and enhance their environmental resistance.

Control of diseases and insect pests

In summer, the weather is humid, stuffy and stuffy, succulent breathing is not smooth, easy to incur some diseases and insect pests.

Common pests such as "Xiao Hei Fei" and "shell insects" and "root pink scale" will nibble on succulent roots, resulting in wound infection and decay and plant death.

Prevention and control measures:

Ventilation, ventilation is very important, must not be stuffy, watering attention to drainage, usually put outside or the balcony with windows.

To prevent pests, spray a small amount of carbendazim after rain or after disinfestation. Most insect pests can be prevented by using "small white medicine" during the growing period. You can choose to kill insects when the sun is strong at noon, when scale insects spread their wings to dissipate heat, and spraying "scale shell spirit" at this time will have a better effect.

Finally, I hope that the succulent meat friends can spend the summer beautifully.