Succulents represent plants which accumulate water supplies in stalks and leaves thanks to what can transfer long-term lack of moisture. More and more people began to grow up this plant in house conditions. It is important to provide at the same time to succulents the correct and due care.
Features of care for plant
Succulents require special care. The homeland of this plant are deserts of South and Central America, Africa, Madagascar. Therefore your task is creation of the similar habitat, but only in house conditions, on the windowsill.
In the nature the succulents grow in roast and arid climate, on stony and sandy poor soils.
It is necessary to keep plant in the winter in the cool room where temperature fluctuates in limits 10-16os. But at the same time it is necessary to choose the most lit place. Water in cold season every 8-10 days, larger copies are enough to be humidified few times in month. At excessive and abundant waterings you can pass plant into dormant period, succulents are extended and exhausted, do not form peduncles.
With arrival of spring the thicket needs to water houseplant, gradually you pass to daily watering. Late spring and during the summer period it is necessary to protect succulents from direct exposure to sunshine, otherwise on leaves there can be burns. It is the best of all to replace flower in March or April. Accurately take earth lump from pot, examine. If the succulent has healthy roots which completely braid earth lump, replace it in the prepared pot of the bigger size, without disturbing root system. If you have found the decayed or dried up backs, cut off them to healthy zones, powder cuts with the crushed coal. Young succulents replace annually, larger copies – time in two-three years. The root system of succulents is poorly developed therefore it is required to these plants pots of the small size with good drainage.
If succulents blossom, then it is necessary to wait with change.
For change of succulents the soil consisting of equal parts of the cespitose and sheet earth, coarse-grained bank sand with small addition of pieces of wood charcoal, lime and shredded brick is used. After change strew around root neck with clean sand to protect the basis from rotting.
Reproduction of succulents
Succulents breed shanks, seeds and inoculation. Most often in house conditions use the most available and easy method of reproduction – cherenkovaniye. Succulents well take roots. Before disembarkation the shanks need to be dried within two-three days (if shanks large, then ten days).