Succulent Plants have made a special place among gardening enthusiasts for the last few years. Due to its beauty and cuteness, everyone wants to buy it, but due to lack of information about ‘how to take care of succulent plants ‘, everyone’s experience is not very good.

Introduction to Succulent plant :

Original residence

These beautiful and cute plants are found naturally in different areas and different conditions of the world, which are mostly dry areas or deserts, including areas of Africa and many areas of North and South America.

Apart from this, many mountainous areas like Alps are also found around the mountain and in the Rain Forest. Now they are grown in every part of the world under horticulture.

Characteristic of plants

In dry climate areas such as Africa, some special plant parts become thick fleshy so that water can be stored in them.

Succulent plants are not a type or species of a plant, it is given this name due to the special structure of plants due to climate and weather. Many different species and family plants can be placed under succulents.

Where to buy succulent plants :

Nowadays succulents are available in good nurseries.

Can also be purchased online. Some plants like aloe vera, snake plant, jade plants, etc. are easily found around, if you want, you can ask for them from someone nearby.

Apart from this, the plants which are in trend like Burro’s tail, Echeveria elegans, Fasciated haworthia, and many other types of cactus can be ordered online but sometimes some leaves break in transportation.

How To Prepare Soil Best Soil for Succulents

For good care of succulent plants, it is very important to have the right soil or potting soil which does not hold much moisture.

Since overwatering is one of the biggest reasons for the death of succulent plants, so we have to prepare soil in which there is a provision to prevent overwatering, that is, such a soil which is well-drained and porous.

These 3 materials can be used as a good succulent plants mix –

1॰ Well-drained potting soil

2॰ Coarse Sand

3॰ Perlite

Well-drained potting soil means good container gardening soil. If you want, you can also order succulents and cactus potting mix online which is best for these plants.

Apart from this, if you get Cinder or Khangar from somewhere, then it can be used as a very good potting mix.

How To Take Care Of Succulents :

It is said that you should take care of plants like your own children and when it comes to succulents, you should understand that you have to take care of a small child.

It is very important for you that before bringing the first Succulent into the house, you collect all the information related to its care because it is often seen that most of the people’s Succulent Plants die.

Keep in the sun

Succulents like sunlight and need an average of at least 6 hours of sunlight, although it can be more or less depending on the type of plant, but it is necessary to keep the sun indoors, these succulent plants cannot be kept indoor.

If a new plant is planted, it can be kept in light or shady sunlight, after a few days, keep it in open sunlight.

Keep rotating the plant

These plants like sunlight and when you keep it in the same position for several days or weeks, only one part of it gets direct sunlight, which the other part does not get sunlight, the growth will not be good.

Its plant has a tendency to bend towards sunlight, so it is a good habit to keep rotating so that the plant grows straight and does not bend to one side.

Water according to season

Most of the succulents die due to not giving water properly. As they need little water in winter season, they do not grow much in winter, so watering will not be a problem even after 4 to 6 weeks, but the plant will definitely die due to continuous watering.

Whenever you give water, keep adding water to the entire pot, when the water drains out from the bottom, then leave it. Do not water the leaves, pour directly into the soil.

It does more growth in summer, so water requirement is more than in winter. Water the next time only after the soil becomes dry, if the moisture feels moist, then do not water.

Keep succulent plants clean :

Keep cleaning the dust of the leaves of succulents, do not let the soil accumulate too much. For cleaning, it would be right to use a hair brush, paintbrush. But do not make the mistake of washing with water or spraying water.

Use hole pots in succulent plants

Like other plants, succulents should also be planted in a pot with holes so that water does not accumulate in the bottom of the pot and the plant does not die due to root rot. Due to the hole, the extra water does not stop and is taken out.

Terracotta pots are good for succulents.

Fertilizer chemicals

Fertilizers do not require much succulents, but in summer fertilizers can be given in small quantities.

An overdose of manure can harm the plant, so be careful when applying manure.

Pests/diseases

There is not much outbreak of insects etc. on these plants, but you should keep checking the plants that in any way insects etc. are not growing on or under the leaves.

Insects etc. can be removed with an old toothbrush or drawing brush. Apart from this, keep the plant away from the damp place. Moisture white insects like mealybugs attack these plants.

How to Multiply Succulents

The best time to multiply succulents is in February-March. Breaking the leaves of the succulents into the mixture of cocopeat and perlite, new roots will emerge in a few days.

Apart from this, new pups come in the side of old plants, they can be carefully separated and planted in new pots.

Care of Succulents in Rain

Plants can be damaged due to excessive watering in the rainy season, to avoid this, succulents should be kept in shade where sunlight is available but not open from above.

It would be best if kept in green fiber shed.

Specific

Where there is good sunlight for 4 to 6 hours in the house, you can keep 5-6 types of succulents plants in white ceramic pots or in terracotta pots on a small table, this will make the look of the house very good.