With a click of the knife, the succulent sprouted 7 heads and grew into clusters of large flower bal

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Topping - control the height and explode the small head

Prune branches to make the plant more beautiful

Beheading - Exploding Pots and Groups of Lives

pruning flower arrows

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Generally speaking, succulents do not need to be pruned, just let them grow naturally. However, if you want to grow a good plant type, such as group growth or headshot, you have to prune it. Today Yaoyao will do it Let’s talk about how to prune succulents in detail!

Topping - control the height and explode the small head

Topping - control height and pop small heads

Succulents are easy to grow leggy during growth. In addition to getting more sun and less watering, another good way is to top off!

Topping can not only control the height, but also promote the formation of branches, making the leaves dense and the plant compact. Succulent plants such as Guanyin Lotus, Xiongtongzi, Master, and Diaoqian can be topping!

Topping Skills

With Black Mage For example, if it never sprouts new leaves, remove the center leaves one by one from the inside out.

Some people find it troublesome and just take off the small head. It's simple and crude, but it's not impossible, but you must pay attention to keeping the wound ventilated and dry, otherwise it will be troublesome if it turns black!

 

After picking, place it on a ventilated and sunny windowsill , watch the soil dry and add some water, and within a week there will be many small heads popping up.

Prune branches - the plant shape will be more beautiful

Succulents such as eucalyptus and golden branches and leaves will grow too fast and dense cross branches and leggy branches will appear. If not pruned, the ornamental value will be greatly reduced!

Pruning skills

Side branches are generally Spring pruning is the best, take Golden Branches and Jade Leaves as an example:

1. First think about what kind of shape you want, whether it is cliff style, straight dry style, jungle style, or diagonal dry style.

2. Select a backbone according to your shape. Then cut off all the messy branches around the main trunk.

Golden branches and jade leaves are very resistant to pruning, so don't feel bad about it, and you can't cut it off. , the more it is cut, the faster it grows!

3. After pruning, many branches will appear. Come on, keep topping the branches to make them grow more lush, and at the same time prune overly long branches to maintain a good shape!

4. Supplement fertilizer and water, get more sun, and change them every spring Once you pot it, you can create a valuable golden branch and jade leaf bonsai within 3 years!

Beheading - Exploding Pots, Swarms of Life

When the succulents have "too long necks" and "stand alone", you can try beheading them. Branches will appear quickly, and a ring of heads will pop up from one tree. After 2 years of cultivation, they will become beautiful succulents that grow in groups!

Heading techniques

1. For leggy and succulent seedlings, when beheading them, 2 to 3 layers of leaves should be retained on the lower branches. Cuttings can be continued after the heads are cut off.

2. Old piles with thick main poles such as mages, When beheading, only keep the main trunk and cut off the top head completely. Cut off the water before beheading to keep the soil dry.

Keep it ventilated and dry. In about 2 weeks, the trunk will be dry. Exploding head in a circle.

Pruning flower arrows

Some succulents will die after blooming, so when the flower buds grow, all flower arrows must be cut off .

Avalokitesvara, Black Master, Lotus Zichen, Vasong, Mountain Rose, etc. will die when they bloom, but not the whole plant will die, but the flowering head will die.

Prune branches to make the plant more beautiful

Beheading - Exploding Pots and Groups of Lives

pruning flower arrows

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