Biggest succulents i've ever seen & The way i take care of them

The convergence of giant succulents

1. Echeveria elegans

Echeveria Elegans, also known as the Mexican Snowballs or Mexican Roses, are great succulents for beginners to grow. These easy-to-care-for succulent plants store water in their thick, uniquely shaped leaves, making them remarkably easygoing, drought-tolerant plants.

The plant produces rose-shaped foliage and can send out offshoots horizontally from their mother stems. They thrive in warm, dry climates, don’t mind some neglect, and can be grown indoors and outdoors with minimal care.

Check out our robust guide to growing Echeveria Elegans for beginners, which will enhance your home and landscape and have you looking like a pro.

How To Grow Echeveria Elegans

Echeveria Elegans for beginners can be grown successfully both indoors and outdoors. However, they will not survive a hard frost, so they should be brought indoors if there is any risk of freezing temperatures.

Whether you are growing succulents indoors or planting succulents outdoors, Echeveria Elegans succulent plants can benefit from container planting in unglazed clay pots. Unsealed pots allow airflow through the plant root systems while showcasing the plant’s prominent and unique foliage.

Planting succulents in containers also allows gardeners the ability to relocate plants when growing conditions are not optimal. Excessive rain or heat can cause Echeveria Elegans succulents problems, so a container’s mobility provides plants with much-needed protection from the elements.

If you live in a warm climate year-round, you have the option of planting your Echeveria Elegans directly in your garden bed. When planting succulents in-ground, always provide them with well-draining, sandy, or rocky soil to ward off diseases such as root rot. In-ground growing doesn’t always translate solely to being planted in a garden bed, however. These low-maintenance plants can be uniquely tucked into cracks and crevices where they really can put on quite a show.

• Add Echeveria in an unlikely location like in stone walls.
• Tuck Echeveria Elegans between patio pavers
• Plant them in rock gardens to provide visual interest.

deal Soil Composition for Echeveria Elegans

Planting Echeveria Elegans in an optimal soil composition will boost the plant’s health and save beginner growers from incurring problems with disease later on. Succulent plants have shallow root systems, and they prefer soil that is well-draining.

Plant Echeveria Elegans in soil containing larger particles so water can enter quickly and drain away from the roots without compacting the soil. To ensure the best soil for these succulents, use a soil test kit and amend the soil to reach an optimal 7.0 on the pH scale before planting.

• Potting Mix– Succulent and cactus potting mixes work exceptionally well for growing drought-tolerant Echeveria plants. The soil is formulated to readily absorb water and provides optimal drainage for the plant so that plants’ feet do not remain wet and rot susceptible. The soil is comprised of recycled forest products, pumice, bark fragments, sand, dehydrated poultry manure, and hydrolyzed feather meal. It provides just the quintessential quantity of essential nutrients to help your succulents grow and develop.
• Soil Amendments– When planting Echeveria Elegans, you can also amend your existing soil with well-draining substrates like pumice, perlite, sand, or gravel. Organic soil amendments can improve the nutrient content, texture, and structure of the soil. This allows these plants to receive the proper airflow around their shallow root systems, making for healthier plants.

How to Water Echeveria Elegans

Knowing how to water succulents such as Echeveria Elegans can be tricky. One of the most substantial blunders that people make is overwatering their Echeveria. Use these helpful tidbits to guide you on how to water your Echeveria Elegans so you can get the most out of these beautiful plants.

• Always avoid getting the leaves wet, particularly in humid regions. Water can get trapped in leaf crevices which can lead to rot.
• Reduce watering during fall and winter so that succulents can tolerate colder temperatures. Note that they will not tolerate a hard frost.
• Damp soil makes succulents more vulnerable to light frost damage during the winter months.
• During the growing season, water more deeply but less frequently.
• Saturate the succulent and cactus mix thoroughly, allowing the water to drain through fully.
• Then let the mixture dry out a bit before the next watering.
• If using a saucer underneath a pot, empty the saucer thoroughly after the water has drained through.
• Then let the mixture dry out a bit before the next watering. If you are unsure, err on the side of not watering.
• Keep your plants on the dry side. If the plant starts to look gangly or the leaves begin to wither, test the soil with your fingertip, and if it is dried, provide water more often.
• Too much moisture in poorly draining soil can lead to root rot and eventually the entire plant’s demise.

Fertilizing Mexican Snowball Succulents

Fertilize Echeveria Elegans, also know as Mexican snowball succulents, during the late spring and early summer through its growing season. For best results, use a fertilizer that is specifically formulated for cactus and succulent plants.

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Common Echeveria Elegans Pests & Disease

The majority of problems when growing Echeveria Elegans for beginners pertains to water and sunlight. These include root rot, leaf drop, and leggy plants. Mealybugs can also become a problem for this succulent plant. If you encounter mealybugs, pick them off with a cotton swab soaked in isopropyl alcohol. Keep infested plants away from other plants to avoid spreading pests to other plants.

 2. ECHEVERIA SUBSESSILIS SUCCULENT

A very attractive succulent with rosettes that can reach up to 6-inches in diameter, and has bluish-green leaves with a touch of soft pink along the margins. Its leaves are coated in thick farina, giving this plant a soft powdery look and allowing it to tolerate full sun.

Hardiness: Zone 4

Light Needs:Dappled shade to full sun

3. Aeonium ciliatum

Aeonium ciliatum is a succulent subshrub with apical rosettes of dark green spathulate leaves with weakly ciliated, often reddish margins. It grows up to 28 inches (70 cm) tall. The main stem and side branches are rough with prominent leaf scars. The main stem is up to 1.2 inches (3 cm) in diameter. Branches are up to 0.4 inches (1 cm) in diameter. The rosette on the main stem is up to 8 inches (20 cm) in diameter, while the rosettes on the branches are up to 4 inches (10 cm). Leaves are up to 4.4 inches (11 cm) long and 1.4 inches (3.5 cm) wide. Flowers are whitish-green and appear in a lax dome-shaped inflorescence in early summer. The inflorescence is up to 8 inches (20 cm) tall and 6.4 inches (16 cm) wide.

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How to Grow and Care

Aeoniums do not like hot or dry weather. In summer, they may go dormant and do not require any water, except in arid conditions. In extreme heat, their leaves will curl to prevent excessive water loss. Growing them in moist shade will keep them growing, but their true growth season is winter to spring, when temperatures are cool, 65 to 75 °F  (18 to 24 °C), and damp. In the winter, water whenever the soil has dried out. Test by poking your finger down into the soil an inch or 2 (2.5 to 5 cm). Too much moisture or allowing them to sit in wet soil will cause root rot.

A sandy loam or regular potting mix is better than a mix specifically for cacti and succulents since Aeoniums need some moisture. If you grow them in containers, repot them with fresh potting soil every 2 to 3 years.

Feed during the growing season with a half-strength balanced fertilizer every month or so. Do not feed while dormant.

4. Aeonium canariense

Aeonium canariense is a species of flowering plant in the family Crassulaceae. It is endemic to the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands, where it grows on dry slopes and cliffs in the north of the island from sea level to about 1300m. It forms large rosettes of leaves close to the ground but the spikes of yellow flowers stand up to 70 cm tall.

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5. Sedum Morganianum

Get some tips for how to grow sedum morganianum to make sure that you keep your succulent super healthy.

The donkey tail succulent is a lovely plump trailing plant that is great in containers. 

Succulents like sedum are drought smart plants that are super easy to grow and make fantastic houseplants.  Be sure to check out my tips for how to care for succulents.

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• Facts about Donkey Tail Sedum

  Sedum morganianum is a flowering sedum in the family crassulaceae – (stonecrops.)  The plant is native to Southern Mexico and the Honduras.

  It is a member of the sedum family of succulents and is very easy care.

  The succulent is also known by the common names Burro’s Tail Sedum, and Donkey Tail Cactus. The scientific name is sedum morganianum.

  The plant is often confuses with sedum burrito. The traditional sedum morganianum has more pointed leaves and sedum burrito has more rounded tips. Both are great in hanging baskets and have the same growing conditions and care..

  some of the biggest succulents I've ever seen

  Kalanchoe thyrsiflora

  It is a succulent plant producing a stalk about 1m tall, which dies back after flowering. It forms a basal rosette of large, rounded, fleshy, stalkless leaves, which are grayish-green with red margins, covered with a white powdery bloom. The inflorescence is terminal and erect with densely clustered thyrse-like panicles of greenish waxy flowers with yellow recurved lobes, narrowly urn-shaped. The plant flowers from autumn to spring, and is common in grassveld amongst rocks.

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  Aeonium arboreum

  Aeonium arboreum grows as a less branched subshrub and reaches stature heights of up to 2 metres. The more or less upright or ascending, smooth, not net-like patterned stem axes have a diameter of 1 to 3 centimetres.

  Their leaves are in flattened rosettes with diameters of 10 to 25 centimetres at the end of the stem axes together. Young leaves are pressed tightly together. The obovate to oblate lanceolate leaf blade is pointed toward its apex and wedge-shaped at the base. It is 130 to 380 mm (5 to 15 in) long, 25 to 115 mm (1 to 4+1⁄2 in) wide and 1.5 to 3 millimetres thick. The green, usually purple-colored, glossy leaf surface is almost bare. The leaf margin is set with curved eyelashes.

  The conical to ovate inflorescence has a length of 10 to 25 centimetres and a diameter of 10 to 15 centimetres. The inflorescence stem is 130 to 510 mm (5 to 20 in) long. The flowers sit on a 2-to-12-millimetre-long, slightly fluffy flower stem. Its sepals are also slightly fluff-haired with a pointed top and wedge-shaped base that is smooth and shiny green, red or purple. The yellow, narrow oblong to lanceolate, pointed petals are 5 to 7 millimetres long and 1.5 to 2 millimetres wide. The stamens are bare. It bears rosettes of leaves and large pyramidal panicles of bright yellow flowers in the spring.

• Kalanchoe thyrsiflora

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