Easy to care is the common misperception people have toward cactus & succulent.

It can survive in the dessert give you the ideas that it can survive anyway.

The truth is, it cant. It required special care to grow beautifully

Lights

Cactus and succulent need direct sunlight for few hours a day. Have you ever wonder why the succulent and cactus you put indoor is growing weirder by day ?

Cactus and succulent will grow tall when they are getting insufficient sunlight. This phenomena is also known as etiolation.

You can see your plant is etiolated when it’s growing tall and there is gaps between the leaves.

(Plant on the left are etiolated)

Some people like their plant being etiolated, however, it doesn’t always etiolated beautifully.

In our experiences, etiolated plants will continue to grow weirder.

Water & Soil

Drainage is crucial to cactus and succulent. The need water, but their root rot easily when submerge to we soil for long time.

There are two extreme on this.

A. Have a super duper well drainage soil for the plant and water it every day.

B. Use regular soil and water it every 2 or more weeks.

It’s always better to water less than over water them.

You can see they are under water when you see “wrinkle” on their leaves. Then you can water them more frequent.

However over water them give you a false impression of them growing beautiful for first few days, and they will slowly die off after their root is rot.

Normally it will be too late when you realize you have over water them.

We will normally use 50% Perlite + 50% regular soil to re-pot our succulent, and water them once a week.

Perlite increase the drainage of the soil and thus reduce the risk of over water them.

Fertilizer

Fertilize them every 6 months if you want them to grow faster. They doesn’t really required a lot of fertilizer to grow.

Be caution when you are using fertilizer, over fertilize them will kill them too.

You may try shamrock organic fertilizer, which release the nutrient slowly overtime.

It constantly provide nutrient to your plant and reduce the chances of over fertilizing.