Rooting succulents in water?
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To water or not to water JUST transplanted succulent?
Comments (11)Avoiding the tendency to gravitate toward watering your plants on a schedule grows increasingly important as your soil's water retention increases. More specifically, it becomes more critical as the amount of perched water the soil holds increases. On the opposite end, if your soil holds no or almost no perched water, watering on a schedule is fine for a high % of plants, as long as that schedule is such that you're not watering too infrequently. I've been watering on a common sense sort of schedule for a lot of years with no problems. In the winter, I have about a dozen plants in very small pots that get watered every 2 days, the rest, including succulents, get watered every 4 days. I'm not promoting watering on a schedule, just making the point that you CAN, when you remove the cause of concern when you water on a schedule - perched water. You DO need to keep a mental picture in mind when you water soon after repotting. It's important that the soil is moist where the roots are. Often, I'll repot a plant with an intentionally flat root system. Since ALL the roots are in the upper inch or two of soil, the first fraction of the soil to dry out, it's very important that I water as often as needed until the plant's roots colonize the deeper part of the soil, so I might water daily for a week or two - until the plant gets its feet under it. It's really hard to beat the gritty mix for houseplants, and succulents in particular seem to really like it. Al...See MoreCrassula "Morgan's Beauty" cutting how to root?
Comments (75)@bernard I say go for it! I wish I can get plants online that has low shipping rate like that! Here in Canada the minimum shipping from even within Canada is $12-15 CDN, and from other countries around the same or higher. So yeah I always try to get 2-3 plants if I'm ordering online as well. If you can get the Morgan's Beauty along with another Echie or two then it's definitely a good buy. Space is definitely difficult issue for windowsill growers, but I've managed to find more space even though many times I said to myself I have no more space :P. Sometimes the photos on the listing is not the plant you would get though, just FYI. If you do end up getting it, make sure to share photos!...See MoreSucculent in pain
Comments (12)Jaime, the soil does look quite soggy. While I know one can grow in peat soil, it's also much tougher in many cases. I think, first, that your pot is too big. I'd guess that the roots of this plant are not vast in any way, and the small amount of roots can't drink up all that water in all that soil, so even though you really aren't watering a lot (once every 3 weeks or so), it ends up being too much anyway because it can't dry out. And the more it stays in soil it can't dry out, the weaker and worse the existing roots get. Unless you choose to use a gritty soil, I'd shrink that pot size down to something much smaller if you will use a peaty soil. (I would definitely mix in about 50% perlite--the white stuff you have in your soil already-- as Para suggested; that will help significantly.) Just as an example, if it were mine and if I were going to use that pot -- I would put in enough soil to fill up the orange part of that pot and no more. But overall, using gritty mix will be invariably better for your jade and will require much less thought about watering. :-) Here is one of my variations on Al's gritty mix. What you see on top IS what is the soil---no mulch used. You can see how chunky it is. I have most of my jades growing in this (type) of mix. If you squeeze your soil in your fist right after you water, you can imagine how much water you might get. If you squeeze this, you can imagine there's no water than would get squeezed out even right after watering. Hope that helps!...See MoreRooting Cactus Timeline
Comments (15)How much of the bad area did you cut off? If this were mine I would have cut here. The bottom area just looks bad and not a good place to start for a cutting. You want as much healthy Euphorbia as possible. Leaving anything on the right side of that yellow line I wouldn't think roots would come out of that dry unhealthy growth. That's just a guess. The left side looks like a much nicer spot to try to get roots out of. Lastly, remember when I said my Euphorbia took 6 months to root. Well that means I left it alone and did not lift and check for roots. You have to leave them be during this slow process. If this was personally mine. I would cut off all the bad areas like I said above. Let callus for a few days. Then set on top of some mix and just leave alone. Don't go checking for roots once a month or every other month because they probably won't be there. Plus not the best time to be doing this because it is winter. You will know when roots have formed. The plant will start getting new growth and just look better. The ones that took 6 months to root are finally pretty well rooted into their mix. It took them 11 months to get like that....See MoreJanewt
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