Using these methods to keep potted plants succulent can keep them alive.

Many friends have realized that although succulent plants look good, it is very difficult to keep them for a few years, especially in summer, succulent plants are easy to rot, either infected with black rot or leaf spot, and are particularly prone to worms. At the end of summer, it is easy to be infected with shell insects, so how to maintain good growth for many years?

To cultivate succulent plants, you must first prepare suitable soil, which is the most basic skill.

Do not directly dig some garden soil downstairs for cultivation, the soil is particularly easy to harden, and the drainage is not good, which is very bad for the growth of succulent plants. You need to prepare some specially breathable and loose sandy soil.

The most important thing for the soil to cultivate succulent plants is to maintain good drainage. In the growth process of succulent plants, the soil should be fully dry so that oxygen can enter the roots. Only in this way can the roots of the plants grow vigorously and help avoid root rot.

Cultivation of succulent soil can choose peat soil, mixed perlite, mixed at 3:2, you can add some red jade soil or other granular soil, do not add some soil with water retention capacity.

Planting succulent plants can often break off some bottom leaves, which can be inserted and propagated in the spring and autumn season. Its leaves are spread directly on the soil surface and can take root and sprout without watering.

The leaves are laid out directly on the soil surface and placed in a well-ventilated and brightly lit position, which can take root and sprout in about two or three weeks. The succulent plant propagated by leaf insertion should not be transplanted in a hurry, but can wait for its seedlings to grow to a centimeter high before transplanting to the new soil.

Succulent plants propagated by leaf cuttings must be patient in the process of maintenance, because they grow very slowly, and the seedlings will continue to absorb nutrients from the leaves until the leaves slowly turn yellow and wither completely.

Succulent plants are very sensitive to moisture. In the process of conservation, the soil must be avoided and the soil can be watered after the basin soil is completely dry.

Especially in hot summers and cold winters, succulent plants can easily rot or become infected with other fungal diseases if the soil is watery.

When watering, do not directly water the leaves, residual water on the leaves, it is easy to cause the leaves to rot.

Maintain the environment of succulent plants must be ventilated and transparent, avoid being kept in secret spaces, and maintain more than 4 to 8 hours of direct light every day.

Maintenance of succulent plants in summer should pay attention to appropriate shading, you can pull up the shade net, you can also move it to a semi-shaded place, the summer temperature is too high, if you do not do a good job of shading, succulent plants will be difficult to spend the summer, but also pay attention to proper water control.

Be careful to avoid cold protection in winter. Keep the minimum maintenance temperature above 5 degrees. You can move succulent plants indoors for maintenance and put them on the windowsill with appropriate light every day, but succulent plants should not be directly attached to the glass of the window.