Lipstick Echeveria (Echeveria Agavoides) is a most striking and beautiful succulent plant. It is a lovely plant that can draw you to fall in love right away with its appearance. It’s also easy to maintain. Give it enough sunlight, and water it daily, that’s really all it needs.
This plant has green leaves with dark red narrow edges – that’s why it has the nickname Lipstick Echeveria. It’s a beautiful succulent that is easy to maintain and even from which take cuttings.
How To Grow Echeveria Agavoides?
It can be nerve-wracking, planting succulents for the first time. However, once you try it, you will notice how easy it is and enjoyable to do.
You might even get ‘hooked’ and plant lots more of these beautiful succulents than you planned!
Below Is The Effortless Way Of Planting Succulents.
1. Prepare Some Gravel
You are going to add gravel that’s thin-layered in the dish and has good drainage.
Bear in mind that a succulent needs well-drained soil, so the function of gravel, pebbles or chippings, will help keep the compost out of the water that drains into it. It’s vital to have a bowl into which the water drains.
2. Cactus And Succulent Mixture
Spread a thin layer of cactus and succulent compost over the gravel. A succulent compost is an ordinary compost with coarse sand, perlite, or other the alike material mixed in.
3. Positioning The Plants
Get the succulents out of their pots, and feel free to position them where you want them in your dish. Make sure the base of each succulent is level with the top of the dish. As a reminder, a succulent does not need wide space.
Hence you can plant them a little closer to one another, but please be reminded that they do grow bigger when they are planted on.
However, although they don’t require a lot of widths, they do need depth for their roots. They grow well in shallow soil.
4. Adjustment Is Applicable As Needed.
When some plants look taller, you can break away some of the soil from the base of the roots and place the plants in the dish.
Succulents are not fragile plants- they can manage to cope with this if you know how to take care of them.
5. You Need To Fill The Gaps And Dust Them Off.
The succulents have gaps between them. To fill in these gaps, you can place other plants between the succulents and the compost. Tightly pack everything, so the plants support themselves.
Expect that this will get messy. An easy way to dust off the leaves that are hard for you to reach is to use a paintbrush – this is fun!
6. You Can Add Decorative Gravel.
As a finishing touch, you could add decorative gravel on the surface of the planting gravel, as this will look stylish and aesthetically pleasing near your succulent.
Apart from appearing attractive, adding gravel will also stop soil erosion when adding water; it also reduces dust when watering.
7. Water Your Succulents
Never forget to water your plants, but moderate watering of your plants should be strictly observed. It’s best to use the “soak and dry” system and allow the soil to dry out completely between waterings.
8. Dust Away Gravel From Leaves
It is expected that the leaves of succulents will have some gravel on them, so maintain the cleanliness of your succulent’s dust by brushing it away from the gravel and the leaves with a paintbrush.
And put your succulents in a place where they can get enough indirect sunlight.
These cute succulents produce offsets or acute plants that are nestled against the mother rosette. There is no difficulty to separate and grow Echeveria.
You are just going to pull the little rosette away and plant again in it a cactus or a homemade combined of equal parts of sand, topsoil, ad compost.
Starting new plants is applicable by cutting leaves. The leaf you cut, you put or lay the leaf on the surface of the soil.
A few weeks after, it is expected that the plants will root, and a baby rosette will grow beside the rooted leaf. Eventually, the leaf will break up to a new plant and dry up.
How to give care to Echeveria
It is essential to water your plants but manage not to overwater your succulents since this is the central issue in caring for your succulents. Water moderately during dry and hot seasons.
Make sure the soil dries out before irrigation. Potted plants should not be left saucer, which is wet. When the plant is dry or too wet, an issue will likely occur; soft rots and root rot issues.
Put the plants in full sun and put gravel or sand around them to prevent weeds and conserve moisture from developing.
In freezing temperatures, make sure your plants are being protected, store your potted plants indoors during winter.
You don’t need to prune your plants, but when a damaged or errant growth is found, you may pinch this off as it is required.
Echeveria Benefits
Good for beginners
Having an Echeveria plant is not difficult, so it’s good for beginners to have an Echeveria.
Good for presents
Giving Echeveria to someone as a present is an excellent choice of the gift because Echeveria has a unique look and is often put in a container that really looks good and simple gifts that will surely appreciate by the receiver.
Not expensive
The common types of this plant are not expensive. They are really affordable. Only a rare hybrid is costly.
Maintenance is easy, and the growth is slow.
The expected repotting of this plant is once every few years, and the growth is gradual even if the conditions of the plant are good.
Echeveria Agavoide’s Origin and Names
These beautiful plants are part of species flowering plant that belongs in the family of Crassulaceae, a native plant to rocky areas of Mexico, known as the states of San Luis Potosí, Guanajuato, Durango, and Hidalgo.
Echeveria is the name for a botanical illustrator who gives to Flora Mexicana, and Agavoides resembles Agave.
Final Thoughts
Echeveria plants grow well, either in containers or lukewarm garden beds. The various colors of Echeveria plants give astonishing tones and textures for mixed beds and pots.
Echeveria agavoides is a succulent flowering plant that produces colorful flowers with dark yellow colors on its tips from the genus Echeveris.
It has green leaves that have red edges, that is why it is nickname “Lipstick,” this beautiful plant which is Echeveria, really helps reduce stress.
Its species’ name comes from Agave- shape like in its thickness, and triangle-shaped leaves.
Jenny Marie
Tribal Writer
Edited By
Patricia Godwin
