Money Tree. How to achieve flowering? Transplanting and care

Other names in the money tree - Crassula, Crassula or tree of happiness. This unpretentious culture, which belongs to the succulents. If it wisely to grow and take care of it, the plant will have a beautiful aesthetic appearance. This article discusses the transfer of money tree, and especially care to make a money tree to bloom.

How to transplant

Money tree growing and it is already becoming a little space in the pot, so you need to be transplanted into a new, more volume capacity.

The plant goes gently from the pot along with a lump of land, this change is called a transshipment when plant roots are not damaged and are not affected. At the bottom of the new container is filled expanded clay layer 3 cm. It will serve as drainage.

Before removing from the pot, the plant does not need to moisturize, and if you are his newly poured, then let dry spines before put in a new container.

Before you put money tree in a pot, the roots straighten a little, so that the plant quickly started to grow, and did not sit long in a new substrate for the transplant because it gets so stressful.

Further, the plant is placed in a container, but a little more than the former. The store is best to purchase the ground, designed for succulents and cacti. He slipped into the pot, filling the void.

Young plants are transplanted 1-2 times in 2 years. Adult plants - once in 3-4 years.

How to care

This plant south, loves heat and light, but the water money tree like succulents need a little. When wetting begins to develop root rot, the plant is sick.

In summer the plants watered 1-2 times a week, and in winter 1-2 times in 2 weeks. In the warmer months better to put on the balcony, suitable not even glazed, or loggia. But the constant direct sunlight is not very fond of. It is better to put in a place where the plant will be well lit in the morning, and by noon creates easily penumbra.

In winter, it is not necessary to put the battery. At this time, money tree should be placed in a cool place, for example, on a windowsill on the north side. Optimum temperature - 10 + + 12 degrees. In winter, the plant while the rest, it does not need to feed.

How to make a money tree blossom?

If you create the optimum conditions for cold winter for plants, ie in a rest period, and in the spring begin to actively feed, it is possible to achieve flowering the tree of happiness. Hence, winter give the plant in a cool place (+ 10- + 12 degrees), as mentioned above.

In winter, the plant should receive stress that it "think" that it was her last days, and it certainly is simply obliged to give birth, that is, to flower and form seeds. Thus, it is possible to get to bloom many plants, such as orchids and cacti.

Watering once a month in winter. With the arrival of spring is necessary to put the pot in a warm and sunny place. It is necessary to actively take care of the plants during this period. It should be fed complex fertilizer for flowering plants once a month, or you need to buy special fertilizer designed for succulents. Watered once a week or at least drying the upper layer. Leaves wipe cloth from dust or spray sometimes plant.

Here there are some simple tips for the care and cultivation of the money tree.

I hope that your tree of happiness or krasulla blossom in the next year!

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