How to raise peach beauty?

Peach beauty is a succulent plant of the family crassulaceae, and its leaves are easy to turn pink in the environment of sufficient sunshine and large temperature difference, as lovely and thick as peaches, so they are favored by succulent plant lovers and can be embellished in the terrace or garden. can also be planted with other Sedum family succulent plants, let's take a look at how to raise peach beauty!

The growth habits of Peach Beauty

Peach beauty likes warm, dry, sunny environment, strong drought tolerance, loose, well-drained and breathable soil, no obvious dormancy period, can accept strong sunshine, the color is more bright and moving under full light, and the plant type is more beautiful and compact. if there is no light, the leaves will show white or even green, and the leaf shape is flat (similar to Xingmei in shape), which is suitable for open-air cultivation. It grows well in warm winter and cool summer climate, and is not resistant to hot and humid weather in summer.

The breeding method of Peach Beauty

Peach beauty can propagate by cutting branches, cutting leaves and sowing seeds, generally by leaf cutting, preferably in spring and autumn, and put healthy, complete and full leaves on a slightly tidal and loose soil surface without exposure. After a few days or weeks, they will naturally sprout roots and leaflets, and when the roots reach 2 to 3 centimeters long, the roots can be covered with a thin layer of fine sand and can grow into independent plantlets.

How to raise peach beauty?

1. Soil: peat mixed perlite and cinder are used in the peat breeding soil, with a ratio of about 1:1:1. In order to isolate the contact between the plant and the soil surface, but also for more ventilation, it can be covered with granular clean river sand or pumice (river sand size 3 to 5 mm).

2. Watering: peach beauty watering requires dry and thorough watering, no dry watering, the loss of leaves is due to the fact that when the water is too sufficient or too much water is given in the off-season, it is easy to lose the leaves by touching the leaves, less water, or gradual water supply, you can avoid losing the leaves as far as possible. The fallen leaves can be inserted as long as they are full, which is very easy to live.

3. Pruning: peach beauty is easy to grow side branches after beheading, and the old stalk that keeps the plant growing without beheading grows very long, and then begins to branch. in order to be more beautiful, the same length should be cut off to sprout lateral buds, so that the plants are beautiful in groups.

4. Summer: peach beauty should pay attention to ventilation and sunshade when breeding in summer, water 3 to 4 times a month, and a small amount of water at the edge of the basin to slowly spend the summer, so as to keep the roots of the plant from drying up because of excessive dryness.

5. Winter: the peach beauty will gradually lose water when the temperature is less than 3 degrees in winter, keep the basin soil dry below 0 degrees and keep it no less than 3 degrees below zero as far as possible, so that you can pass the winter safely and have less water as much as possible. the spring water supply should be gradual or rotting roots may occur.