Experiences and insights in raising fleshy green plants: A superior natural ventilation environment is more important than abundant light.
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Experiences and insights in raising fleshy green plants: A superior natural ventilation environment is more critical than abundant light.
Experiences and insights in raising fleshy green plants: A superior natural ventilation environment is more critical than abundant light. Raising fleshy plants has become a trend, and everyone who loves them will master their raising methods in advance, but is worried about not finding the right direction. Therefore, many plant enthusiasts often ask me how to raise fleshy plants. Below is a plant enthusiast's shared growth process from a beginner to an expert in raising fleshy plants:
Experiences and insights in raising fleshy green plants often mention some outstanding plant enthusiasts who say, "Experts are all stepping back from the bodies of dead plants."
If asked where in China is the purgatory for fleshy green plants, it can be responsibly said that it's the two Guang provinces, with high temperature, high humidity, and small temperature differences, making it easy for beginners to suffer numerous losses.
The plant enthusiast bought the fleshy plants last winter, which was the growing season, feeling everything was going well and started buying and crazy shopping, accumulating many small and medium-sized pots, taking great care of them. However, due to the "super变态" climate in the area where the plant enthusiast lived, the fleshy plants either died or were severely damaged, with almost the entire army wiped out. The tragic scene was indescribable. In anger, the plant enthusiast put the plants in a large tray and threw them on the public balcony, preparing to let them go, allowing the cleaning lady to pick them up, out of sight, out of mind, and set off for a trip.
Upon returning from the trip, the plant enthusiast found that the cleaning lady had not taken the plants away, and the plants were thriving in the free-range environment, making an instant turnaround, so the plant enthusiast decided to start studying the plants seriously.
In some ways, fleshy green plants are not suitable for indoor planting. If you want to keep it indoors and play with it every day, you should dispel that idea. All plants are nurtured by nature and must follow natural laws. Otherwise, they will either die or be severely damaged. The essential factors for raising fleshy plants are: temperature, sunlight, soil, and flowing air, all of which are indispensable.
By now, the plant enthusiast even feels that a superior natural ventilation environment is more important than abundant light. Lack of light may only disfigure the plant, but poor ventilation can be a matter of life and death.
What is indoor ventilation? Simply put, it's whether there is flowing air that can take away unnecessary moisture in the soil and provide the roots with more air. A hot environment will quickly kill your plants! Ventilation conditions can be artificially created, such as using fans to speed up air circulation.
The plant enthusiast summarized the following necessary elements for raising fleshy plants:
1. Light: The key to thriving, with large temperature differences and abundant sunlight. Abundant sunlight makes the plant's shape fatter and rounder, with more attractive leaf shapes.
2. Watering: Often depends on the situation. The plant enthusiast mainly decides whether to water based on the leaves' condition. If the leaves are upright and slightly hard, the watering time is slowed down. The condition of the leaves usually reflects the plant's water requirement. Plants with insufficient water tend to have soft and withered leaves. A well-rooted fleshy plant will quickly recover after watering. If you find that the watering frequency is not low, but the leaves are always soft, you should consider whether there is a problem with the roots.
Do not water at noon, mainly considering that many potted plants can become very hot under direct sunlight, and when water is poured at this time, it's like the frog effect. The pot can quickly become a steam bath. Watering time should be chosen during a breeze, cool evening.
How much to water and whether to water thoroughly is not easy to say and depends on the size of the pot. Small pots and small-mouthed containers evaporate quickly, so the watering frequency can be slightly higher. In summer, water as late as possible at night and check whether to water again depending on the situation, because when the sun comes up the next day, if it doesn't dry out, it will become a sauna. The best condition is to moisten but not waterlogged. It won't let the root rot, nor cause waterlogging. Better less than more. Too much water is not a good thing; it can cause the plant to fade, grow tall, and become the source of all black rot bacteria.
3. Soil: If the climate cannot be changed, the soil can be artificially adjusted to help the plant adapt better. Choose soil with faster drainage. Do not use pots without drainage holes. Don't worry about how to mix the soil; there's no good or bad, only what is suitable or not.
4. Pot material: Don't worry too much. Red ceramic pots are not recommended. Under the action of particle soil, red ceramic pots dry out very quickly, barely retaining water, and in many cases, the plant hasn't absorbed it yet, and it's already dry. Some references say that small containers can grow stronger leaves. The principle is that small containers limit the growth of the roots, slowing down the overall growth rate and further dwarfing and strengthening the plant. Therefore, the cute and fat stems you often see are usually in controlled pots.
Key points of caring for fleshy plants: The highly succulent body stores a lot of nutrients, worrying about high and low temperatures, and good roots are the guarantee of health.
1. About surviving the summer: The cause of 90% of the deaths is the roots. A plant with poor roots is prone to various problems. Without good roots to support it, the plant can't consume excess moisture, and high temperature and humidity lead to the excessive breeding of bacteria, causing black rot.
2. About stopping watering in summer: The bad effect of stopping watering in summer is that all the roots are killed, and in the fall, you have to pot them again! Stopping watering is definitely a loss, and it's often done out of necessity.
3. About slow root growth: It's best not to pot some woody downhill stakes in summer, not that they can't be potted, but because summer is a dormant period for fleshy plants. All basic metabolism will slow down, including the response to water stimulation, which will also decrease. Therefore, it's hard to grow new roots in unsuitable temperatures. Many times, before you can wait for them to grow new roots, they are already exhausted and damaged. Fortunately, some can be saved, but it's inevitable to damage the overall color.
The best environment for root growth is a moist environment. To make the plant know it "should wake up," it's temperature and humidity. In dry particle soil, combined with high temperature, it makes root growth very difficult. Plants in the potting period can be watered at the roots every night, without watering through, just to maintain a certain humidity without waterlogging.
In summary: In nature, summer dormancy is the way fleshy plants cope with awareness. Summer heat and dryness force them to reduce their basic metabolism to resist harsh environments. Let it be, buy new ones in the fall, don't go against nature, worry less, and don't give up, even if it's ugly, it will be beautiful next year as long as the stem is still there, there's no need to worry about reversal.
The above sharing of experiences and insights in raising fleshy green plants with a superior natural ventilation environment is more important than abundant light, which green plant enthusiasts may refer to.