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- How to Maintain Your Dickblatt - Tips and Tricks
- Plant a thick leaf
- Pour the thick leaf and fertilize
- The thick-leaf in winter
- The essentials in brief:
- Tips
Thick leaves need only a little water
How to Maintain Your Dickblatt - Tips and Tricks
Perhaps the most common thick leaf is the Crassula ovata, also known as the money tree, the penny-tree or the jade tree. In the large family of thick-leafed plants, however, include many more plants such as the Aeonium and the Brutblatt.
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The thick leaf prefers very permeable soil. This may be special succulent soil or a mixture of soil and sand or granules. In addition, the plant pot should have a sufficiently large drain hole, because the thick leaf is very sensitive to waterlogging.
Give your thick leaf a bright and warm place, like in the sun. Only the blazing midday sun is not recommended. Gladly the thick leaf may move in a warm and dry summer in the garden or on the balcony. However, it should be brought back to the house in time, as it is not hardy. The money tree (Latin Crassula ovata) is also well suited to draw a bonsai from it.
Pour the thick leaf and fertilize
Belonging to the succulents, the thick-leaf has the ability to store a lot of water in the leaves. Accordingly, it tolerates dry periods quite well, as well as relatively dry heating air. A lot of water does not need your thick leaf, it should be poured only moderately. Even with the fertilizer you are better at sparing.
The thick-leaf in winter
The thick leaf like many succulents hibernate. At about 12 ° C to 15 ° C, the plant recovers and recovers power for the next growing season. Frost does not tolerate the thick-leaf, so it should be brought back to the house in time in the fall, if it has spent the summer outside. Until the next spring you may stop the fertilizer and pour your thick leaf only slightly.
The essentials in brief:
Tips
Crassula ovata belongs to the water-storing succulents like all other thick-leafed plants and is a very decorative, exotic-looking and at the same time easy to maintain houseplant.