How To Grow Succulents From Seed
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When we have prepared everything, seeds, seed dishes, substrates, water, we can start sowing. First, for example, one liter of distilled water, I add to the tip of the knife the above mentioned fungicide, you can not overdo it and if you add more. I shake well so that the solution is homogenized and then, after a little bit, I add to the substrate water, while stirring with a spoon until the substrate is visibly moist but not excessively wet, ie, gibberish.
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t’s already a matter of feeling, but try to find some sort of environment. By this procedure, the substrate was moistened, but we also added a fungicide to it. Is it clear? ?? After this, add the substrate in the pot, up to some half cm below the top of the pots, and at the same time we need to have a square solid object in order for the substrate to gently compose and align the surface, thereby avoiding any possible air pockets in it. For this purpose, we can use a flat piece of wood (battens), a piece of plastic object or whatever is handy at hand, and do not overdo it with compression, a slight thrust will be perfectly OK.
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Now that remains the most important part of the work, sowing. The lithops seed is very small and care should be taken to distribute it evenly in a pot. For this I use a folded paper in which I pour the seeds and squeezing the paper as hard as possible to distribute it evenly, after which I slowly dip the seed (the same subject) and the sowing process is completed. IMPORTANT: We do not cover the seed with anything!
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The planted pots are then placed in a pre-prepared transparent plastic container (I use food containers) can be found in various sizes and buy yourself appropriate depending on how many pots you sow. Before I put the pots in a bowl, I pour the remaining water with fungicide, so that the pots are immersed about half to 1 cm. Plastic bowl is closed and placed in a bright place next to the window, where there will be enough light, but at no time there should be no direct sun, because in direct sunlight, the seed can practically boil, and there is nothing of a successful sowing. A far more practical and safer option is an artificial light.
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For such a thing, we need a classic energy saving or LED bulb (10 to 15 W) which will stand about twenty centimetres from the seed bed included 16 hours a day. As I do not think too much when I turn on or turn off the light, I use an electric timer that automatically lights up and turns off the light at the set value. But for some hobbies of hacking is not necessary and you do not have to expose yourself to expenses, it is enough to give a rough light to the seedlings for about 16 hours. And that is all …
Germination
Now we just have to wait for the seed to start germinating. The seed of lithops is very fast, but after three to four days you will notice the first miniature green heads as they penetrate the substrate. The germination process lasts about 15 days and during this time we do not open the sowing container in order not to disturb the humidity of the air. Ok, I know that from time to time you will fall into temptation and open the bowl briefly so that you can see what is happening, and I go into similar situations, but when you do it, try to make it really a short period, not longer than a couple minutes.
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When the majority of the seeds emit, and this should happen within two weeks, we completely discover the vessel, the excess water that is kept at the bottom is carefully washed and continued with the care of our younger sowers by spraying them once or twice a day with distilled water in which is slightly added fungicide, a fine sprinkler, which virtually turns water into a fog (for this purpose, you can use a pump that is obtained, for example, with a detergent for washing glass or the like).
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With daily spraying and mild spillage, we continue the first few months. For the third month, we can reduce spraying on every second or third day, and by the end of the third beginning of the fourth month, the first lithops will be replaced, when we will still slightly reduce the polishing, but in the first year we should not allow the substrate to be completely it dries up.
Unlike mature plants, young lithops in the first year of life must always have sufficient moisture in the substrate.
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