Succulents and Too Much Rain: What You Need to Know
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- Keep those chubbies alive! Is your garden set to handle the excess? It can be death to succulents to overwater them, yet under certain circumstances, they can handle much more than they need.
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Yes we are fortunate to live in the land of milk and honey- your yard looks awesome.
This is very interesting, thanks for sharing. Another point to consider is that these plants will never experience standing water, where mold can grow and rot the roots. Any water they receive will flow away downhill, instead of pooling up where the plants are growing. The pottery chards buried in the soil will help retain moisture that the plants can use over the long term, also without leaving any standing water. That sounds like an ideal environment for succulents to thrive, and it sure looks like they are!
Exactly right, well said! Thanks!
I had the exact same situation with our gutter. The Aloe Cameronii under “Niagara Falls” had no problem with all the rain. For that matter neither did any other succulents. Thank heavens for proper soil and temps that didn’t go below 32. We are in SF Bay Area zone 9b.
if your succs are in pots, they must have good drainage! Good job!
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Very nice succulent garden and collection, roof water drainage makes it very beautiful
Now if I can just give it "roof water drainage" in midsummer!
Good day dear Debra! 😃Thank youuu for the new upload! It's refreshing to see another upload that is intended for beginners in cultivating succulents hihi 🥰🤗💕
God bless and stay healthy always 💗
Thank you! Always good to hear from YOU, too, John!
@@QueenofSucculents my pleasure! 🤗🥰
How did your succulents come through the rainstorms?
Very well. I live in middle-europe and according to common knowledge, all my succulents should be dead for 10 yeas already. The only thing that reliably kills them is frost, and by that I mean the plant freezing itself, not freezing temperatures around the plant - I had a couple of incidents already where I came home and the temperatures dropped below 0° C (sry, I dont know °F), so I had to rush to get all my pots inside. Once a jade`s tips had begun to freeze, that part died but the rest of the plant is still fine. All my Haworthias and Euphorbias survived as well.
About water: My plants are outside almost all the time exept when there is frost. They get a lot of rain over the year. My mother even has some Aloe in quasi-hydroculture (pot that is filled with water, occasionaly that water gets replaced with new one. My hypothesis is that water is fine as long as: a) the roots are intact. If the roots get damaged by shaking/moving the plant or by pests, THAT can lead to rot. b) there is enough oxygen so the roots dont suffocate. c) even succulents (and yes, even cacti) seem to be able to grow water-roots, as seen with my mothers plants.
I only try to protect my echeveria agavoides and mesembs from the rain, as agavoides is notorious for rotting between the leaves when wet for too long, and mesembs simply grow too fat.
(Disclaimer: I do not want to encourage anyone to treat their plants as I do. Mine have survived, yours might too, but I do not want to be responsible for other peoples experiments and potential losses.)
Greetings from europe and may you and your plants live long and happy!
The wind was much more damaging than the rain. But, even with good drainage I'm sure a number of cactus are going to split from taking up too much water.
Good point. I have splitting with gymnocalyciums. None in the ground, though, so it's easier to control their uptake.