Plants
Echeveria
Echeveria sp.
EasyOpen jar only
A tight, symmetrical rosette of fleshy leaves. Bright light, dry soil.
What the simulation uses
- Light
- 8,000 to 45,000 lux
- The brightness it grows well in.
- Humidity
- 20 to 50 % RH
- Air moisture it is happy in; below the lower end it dries out.
- Temperature
- 10 to 29 °C
- Comfortable range; outside it growth slows.
- Dies at
- below 0 or above 35 °C
- Days beyond these temperatures kill it.
- Soil pH
- 6 to 7 pH
- Soil acidity it prefers.
- Grows up
- 0.3 cm/month
- How fast it gains height in good conditions.
- Spreads
- 0.3 cm/month
- How fast its edge creeps outwards.
- Copes with wet
- poor
- How well it stands soggy soil; poor means rot comes quickly.
- Copes with still air
- poor
- Sealed jars have still air; poor means grey mould finds it.
- Copes with shade
- poor
- How well it holds on in dim light.
- Copes with drying
- excellent
- How well it survives the jar drying out.
- Water use
- 0.015 ml/cm²/day
- Water drawn up from its roots per cm² of leaves in room air; a sealed jar cuts this to a fraction and returns it down the glass.
- Leaf drop
- 1 %/month
- Share of its leaves it sheds each month as litter for the cleanup crew.
- Soft leaves
- no
- Soft new growth that hungry isopods will nibble.
- Full size
- 7.5 cm tall, 12.5 cm wide
- Its size when grown, before the lid stops it.
Care
- Day length
- 6 to 12 h
- Substrate
- Dry
What kills it
- overwatering / root and crown rot
- humid still air
- low light causing the rosette to stretch (etiolation)
Description
Echeverias need strong light and soil that drains fast and stays dry. Humid, still air rots them, so a sealed jar is never the right home. Grow them in an open dish.
Also called hen and chicks (echeveria).
Estimated, where sources were thin: species unspecified; ranges are genus-level from succulent care guides.