Something you hear a lot is people telling you that
succulents are easy!!!
Ha really.
Well i would say well maybe if you live in California Spain Devon succulents require people who understand gardening to
grow them healthily and well ,we have
cold nights. the odd suddenly hot hour or two, low light and a constant wet atmosphere bad for foliage as well as the root system..
perfect conditions for mould, mealy bugs, die off ,frost/cold
damage and lanky straggly growth due to the low light and cold protection, they
need constant vigilance especially with mould as it can spread really quickly
almost overnight and its very hard to cure . we almost always throw them away
as except for the really rare ones sprays are slow to work and it can keep
spreading,
one thing i do though on rare plants is to use silver sand moulds hate it
in the glasshouse aphids are often around but are easily dealt
with but the cold is a really big problem yesterday it was 1 degree below
freezing at night then during the day the temperature was ridiculously high very stressful for the plants .
so are succulents easy ? well yes some are really easy given
the right conditions but others need specialised soil mixes and temperature and
that to me is what makes them so interesting to grow.
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