Maintenance skills of succulent plants in Autumn

Autumn is the most beautiful season for succulent plants, and it takes careful care for succulent plants to show their best. Let's take a look at the tips for succulent maintenance in autumn!

Control watering and increase air humidity

Entering autumn, the temperature drops slightly, coupled with the increase of temperature difference between day and night, succulent plants gradually resume growth and can be watered more. Because succulent plants have the characteristic of growing at night, they can be watered properly according to the change of air temperature. Watering in the early autumn evening and late autumn afternoon is beneficial to plant growth. Water less on cloudy days and stop watering on rainy days.

Succulent plants are kept indoors for maintenance in autumn, and an appropriate increase in air humidity is beneficial to succulent plants originating at high altitude. during the autumn growth period, relative humidity is kept between 45% and 50%, and a few varieties can reach 70%.

Reasonable pruning and optimization of plant modeling

Short and succulent

Most of the succulent plants are short, the stems and leaves are mostly fleshy, and the growth rate is relatively faster in autumn. Paek Sul Hui, Diaoji, etc., whose stems and leaves grow too fast, can promote their branches, form buds, bloom more, and make the plant type more compact and dwarf. Yeah, desert roses. By thinning branches, such as egg flower, the appearance of plant type can be kept neat. The overgrown Caiyun Pavilion, African overlord tree, cardinals and so on, use strong shears to control the height. For growing and absorbing too many buds, such as Red Juanjuan and Zi holding years, cutting too many sucking buds can make the plant type more beautiful.

Succulent cactus

Cactus plants will continue to grow after flowering in autumn. timely and reasonable pruning can not only depress plant type, promote branching, make plant growth more robust, plant type more beautiful, but also promote its sprouting bulbs for cutting or grafting propagation.

If the cactus does not leave seeds after flowering, it is necessary to cut off the residual flowers in time so as not to consume more nutrients because of fruiting, which is not conducive to the formation of new buds. But for false epiphyllum, dragon and Phoenix peony and cactus which is easy to grow bulbs, the plant type can be beautiful by thinning the leafy stems and peeling off the dense bulbs. For crab claw orchid and cactus that bloom in early winter, buds should be picked in time. For columnar cactus, such as white mango column, dragon god column, etc., should be properly truncated, lower the plant type, ready for the winter.