How to grow succulents? What are the three common diseases of succulents?

The explanation of succulents in the encyclopedia is: at least one of the three nutritional organs of roots, stems and leaves is thick and juicy and has the function of storing a large amount of water. It sounds easy to understand, but Sannongyuan said that the succulent plants they understand are those without the green leaves of ordinary plants, but rather some bulging and delicate pieces of meat, which look cute and make people want to pinch them with their hands. So how to grow succulents? What are the three common diseases of succulents? Let's take a look at the introduction of the Encyclopedia Knowledge Network!

Contents of this article

1. How to grow succulent plants

2. Three common diseases of succulents

3. Which succulents are edible?

How to grow succulent plants

Growing succulents is a simple and happy thing. After getting up every day, while brushing my teeth, I inspect the succulents on the balcony, observe their growth, see if they are lacking water or something else, and make adjustments immediately if there is a problem. Slowly, a simple hobby will become a sustenance. Many flower lovers often say, "As long as you pay for them, they will repay you with beauty", which is indeed the feeling.

1. Rizhao

Most succulents like sunlight. If there are more than 5 hours of direct sunlight every day, they will be very beautiful. If there are no such conditions, 2 hours of sunlight is also fine. Pay attention to the intensity of sunlight. The sunlight is strong during the transition from spring to autumn, so shade should be provided appropriately. In addition, most succulents are currently cultivated and propagated in greenhouses. After returning home, there should be a gradual process, otherwise it is easy to get sunburned. Generally, south-facing balconies or terraces are most suitable. It should be noted that succulents are not suitable to be placed in front of the computer or at the bedside.

2. Ventilation environment

Air circulation is very important for succulents. For example, alpine succulents will be in a sub-healthy state if they stay in a closed environment for a long time, and in serious cases, they will die. You can circulate air by opening the window, or use a small fan in the hot summer. Of course, if conditions permit, you can plant them directly outdoors.

3. Temperature

The most suitable temperature for succulents to grow is 15-25℃. When the temperature is higher than 35℃ in summer, some succulents will enter a state of summer dormancy. When the temperature reaches above 40℃, it is very dangerous. You must find a way to increase ventilation, otherwise it is easy to suffocate. When the temperature is below 5℃ in winter, it will stop growing. When the low temperature reaches 0℃ or below 0℃, frostbite or freezing to death may occur.

4. Soil

Most succulents like sandy soil. The first thing to do after buying it home is to check the soil. If it is yellow mud or black soil with strong humus, it must be replaced as soon as possible. Conventional soil cultivation method: 1 part of loose soil (peat soil, coconut bran), 1 part of sand (coarse sand) 1:1. If there is a small restaurant burning honeycomb coal near your home, you can also pick up some and break it up to use as coarse sand.

5. Watering

Watering is the most troublesome. In the early stage, you can use a timed and quantitative method, watering every 5-7 days in spring and autumn, every 15-20 days in summer, and every 20-30 days in winter. In the later stage, you can slowly change the watering method according to your understanding of the plants. You can judge whether watering is needed by observing the state of the plants. For example, if the leaves become soft and wrinkled, they are all signs of water shortage. At this time, you can water the plants in small amounts to replenish them. Pay special attention to avoid exposure to the sun after watering in summer, which can easily suffocate the plants.

Three common diseases of succulents

At the turn of spring and summer, succulents face the big challenge of seasonal change. People often think that the survival rate of succulents is very high, so they plant them according to their own preferences after buying them. In particular, succulents look plump, and it is not easy to detect even if they are sick. As a result, problems such as being eaten by insects and drying up, the plants growing in disorderly shapes, or poor drainage emerge one after another. Common diseases of succulents can be observed from three angles: light, water, and insects.

Condition 1: Legility

Patient: Sparrow Fan

Treatment: Cut off the crooked implants, place in a sunny place and change the sunny side regularly.

Doctor's instructions:

The sparrow fan is a succulent with very strong vitality. Even if the leaves are damaged, they will grow back quickly after being removed. However, because the sparrow fan has too strong vitality and especially craves light, the central column will grow towards the light source under the drive of phototropism, and finally become distorted into a deformity (the appearance of succulent plants is also a common disease).

The simplest way to deal with it is to cut off the crooked part, place it in a sunny place, and remember to adjust the direction every few days so that all sides can receive sunlight. The cut part will grow out in about 2 weeks.

Condition 2: Poor drainage

Patient: Liuliji Peacock

Treatment method: repotting, changing the special soil for succulent plants

Doctor's instructions:

In order to make the succulent plant seedlings grow quickly, most farmers will directly use "culture soil" to grow seedlings. Although they look small and cute, after people buy them home, the plants grow bigger and bigger and the root system becomes denser. The culture soil with poor drainage actually limits the growth space of the Glazed Peacock. Not only can they not grow big, but they are more likely to suffocate if they are watered too much in the summer.

The recommended way to deal with it is to buy special culture soil for succulents (which looks like small gravel) and change to a larger pot so that the succulents can grow full and healthy.

Disease 3: Insect pests

Patient: Cube Cream

Treatment: alcohol deworming, washing

Doctor's instructions:

Cube Frost is actually a super disease-resistant succulent variety, and its plump and pleasing leaves make it very suitable for those who are not good at growing plants, and it is an entry-level succulent plant. However, if it is placed outdoors (especially in the summer when insects grow very fast), it is also likely to be infected with diseases and pests, especially the tiny white mites, which are not easy to detect with the naked eye, but will slowly suck the juice out of the succulent.

The recommended treatment method is to first cut off the center part of the succulent where the insects gather, shake off the surrounding soil (if there are insect eggs in the soil, throw them away), spray with alcohol to repel the insects, place in a cool place for 1 week, and then transplant it in new soil and a new pot. The removed branches and leaves will grow new buds after 2 to 3 weeks, and it will be a lively Cucumber again.

Which succulents are edible?

Don't doubt that foodies will not miss anything that looks edible. Finally, I insisted on tasting some of the meat I had. They were all common goods that were too expensive to buy and taste, including the most common ones, such as the stonecrop, Alocasia odora, Maiden's heart, rainbow jade, Buddhist beads, Huangli, and Sedum.

Let's talk about the delicious ones first. At present, I think the only one worth eating is the sedge. I dug it up on the mountain during morning exercise. Since I have already eaten it, I can't know exactly what kind it is. I am sure it is a sedge. Although the taste is not as good as fruit, it is definitely sweet and sour, and the texture is better than the taste. Because it has multiple layers of leaves, it has a rich layered texture. (However, it is said that the sedge tastes good in the morning, but not at noon.)

Almost everyone has a Guanyin lotus. In fact, I don't really want to eat it just by looking at its appearance. It's not as crystal clear as the jade dew. So I eat it purely because it's cheap and I don't mind it. The taste of Guanyin lotus is the same as its appearance, without too many amazing features. First of all, the taste is worse among the meats, because the surface of the leaves is relatively thick, and there is still a lot of juice inside when you bite it, but it has a bit of oxalic taste and is not very delicious.

The Rainbow Jade is just like what I imagined, just a bag of water. It is not very delicious either, the skin is very thin, and the juice overflows when you bite it. Like most of them, it tastes sour and grassy, ​​like drinking grass juice.

Huang Li, when I first ate it, it tasted a bit like the sedge, but not as good as the sedge. Maybe there is a difference in taste between the wild and the home-raised ones, which needs to be studied. Later, because I thought it looked a bit like the sedge, it might be delicious in the morning, so my throat is still numb and my tongue is a bit numb. Eating it in the morning, it really is the essence of heaven and earth, and the taste is rich. I tried it before and thought it had no taste, but this time, a sour and bitter juice burst out... I almost vomited breakfast. This thing is not as mild as it looks, and now my stomach is still sour.

Cactus, the inherent condition of this kind of meat determines that I am unlikely to eat it, or it is not convenient. Besides, it is too easy to be discovered if I eat this, etc. This is not the point... But I have eaten its byproduct, cactus fruit. Maybe many people have not seen it, because the fruit of cactus grown at home is rare in itself, but I am lucky enough to have eaten it twice. Cactus fruit is similar to the swollen small cactus stem, but the color is purple and very beautiful, with fewer thorns on the surface. After cutting it open, the inside is rich purple-red, sour and sweet and very delicious! If you really don’t have the opportunity to find cactus fruit, you can try the red pitaya, because pitaya is also a fruit of the cactus family, and there are some similarities. The taste is like pitaya concentrated a hundred times!

Aloe vera, although aloe vera is edible, it cannot be eaten casually, but it is okay to try a little. One of its characteristics is that it is sticky, and I always think that it should be used to make aloe vera gel. I have eaten the fried aloe vera made in restaurants, and the taste is still not optimistic. It is said that the nutritional value is high. (It is said that the taste of gyokuro is similar to aloe vera, but the little one is sweet)

Buddha beads, but they are the big ones. I ate the small ones last time and they didn't taste good. Maybe it was because I didn't eat them in large quantities or I ate them at the wrong time. But when I ate this this morning... I instantly had a Spartan face! I thought it looked harmless, so I just put it in my mouth. First, a strange smell spread out, and then... I seemed to have bitten Kojiro-kun's double-bullet gas. Anyway, this feeling can only be understood but not described...

Sedum, this thing must not be eaten! Don't try it no matter how curious you are, it will definitely ruin your life! It looked quite inconspicuous, so I pinched a small piece of leaf [note that it is really a very small amount] and stuffed it into my mouth, and then the tragedy began. At first, I tasted it and it felt good. It was sweet and I thought it was delicious. So I did the first thing I regret most in my life, I picked up half of the broken one and ate it. At this time, the aftereffect came up... My mouth was full of numbness, as if I had a mouth full of pear blossom needles in the rain [go to Baidu if you don't know]. After drinking two glasses of water, I recovered and I don't know why I didn't give up, so I tried it again. This is the second thing I regret the most! For a moment, I thought I might be poisoned, and my mouth was full of a bad numb taste. (However, according to rumors, chewing a few pieces of raw Sedum is effective in lowering blood pressure.)