How to root a money tree
Question: How to root a fat woman (money tree)?
irina-bahus: If from the leaves of the fallen, then only it is not necessary to bury, as they fell, so let them lie. About a month and a half later, small money trees appear, which grow quite quickly.
Lusi: Cuttings in the water should not be rooted - immediately into the land. Land for cacti and succulents, add 2:1 sand. I would try to drop off like this. Take a pot like a flat, drain to the bottom, fill the prepared land and do not cut anything dry, put the sprig on the ground, leave what is dry sprinkled with the land, and leave the green tail. I think they should, at least wake up a couple of kidneys and prophesy. If the land is taken from a new, that is, sealed package, then there is no need to water after planting, do not water for a couple of days, but spray a little so that the land is only 1 cm wet. And if the ground is from an open bag, then after planting you can water, but literally a teaspoon.
Fat woman (money tree) - care and cultivation
Anyuta: I rooted the cuttings of a fat woman in slightly wet sand.
Polly: And I always dry it during the day, before planting, it takes root remarkably.
Mila: They don't put a fat woman in water - you need to treat the cut with coal, dry it, and then root it in a sand, perlite or even just soil, without deepening it much and almost without watering it.
Photophilous money tree
Question: I read about the fat woman: "bright intense lighting, the fat women love a lot of light." I put it on the balcony, two weeks passed, and today I found spoiled leaves, this is not from overdoing it for sure - there are spots on them with a reddish tint and in a small dot like semolina, spots from the side of the street, in the middle of the leaf. Maybe it's from direct sun like burns?
NataV: These are sunburns, I moved mine to a slightly shaded place. I do not argue that the fat woman loves light and redness is reversible - if removed from the sun, the redness comes off. But ideally, an east window suits her.
Piper H: And I have it next to the western window, there is enough light, but not direct, it grows well. Remove it from the balcony or make tulle curtains - that's it.
Vikusya: Actually, light loves a money tree, but from direct sunlight, if there are a lot of them blushing. Especially on the western and southern windows, better shade from the curtain, i.e. put right next to the window, but not on the floor. It grows well on the northern windows, but slower and the sheet is larger.
Question: And my fat woman lost her red border (when they bought it, it was). Before that, she stood on the closet, there apparently she lacked the sun. Now it stands on the windowsill, the sun falls periodically on it, and there is no border on the new leaves.
Lenochka: The red border usually appears only when the fat woman is standing in a very well-lit place or even sunny, but of course not with scorching rays. I don't have the sun on the balcony, neither does the red border.
Stivi: Most succulents in the sun blush around the edge, and sometimes completely - this is absolutely normal (and, in my opinion, even more beautiful and more interesting). And in the store they are green - from a lack of lighting and then they do not come to their senses immediately.
How to water a money tree
Question: How to water a money tree (fat woman) - often or not? They write that she is afraid of overflow, and I water mine abundantly and she grows!
Elizabeth: I water my tree no more than once a week, if it is very hot then about 2 times a week, my tree is not small, and I feel very good, with such watering, it constantly gives new growths, new shoots, and only to get started, never with such watering did it hurt me. The main thing is not to love, some think that caring for a day tree means watering as soon as it dries, and as a result - decay! You need to water when the ground is already very dry.
TanyaM: But my mother and I water our fat trees very rarely! Both look chic. Branched, strong. Real trees.
Although no, my tree is still small. But individual leaves reach the size of a chicken egg! At the same time, it does not forget to branch and even grows in several trunks, and I also recently noticed a sprout.
Angelina: The fat woman should be allowed to stand in the dry pot of day 2 after the soil dries in the pot.
Lusi: The fat girl tolerates drought more easily than the overflow.
Aerial roots at the money tree
Question: Why does my fat woman have so many aerial roots?
Natalie: The money tree reacts in this way to increased soil moisture. When there is sufficient drainage, or the pot is small, the roots do not rot, but constant evaporation of moisture from the soil (i.e. increased humidity under the leaves) - stimulate the formation of air roots. Be careful with watering! If the earth dries well, then the formation of air roots in the money tree occurs from an increase in humidity for other reasons - for example, when windows sweat, the season of frequent rains in summer, etc.
Money tree pot
Question: Does the money tree like large pots or small ones?
Natalie: The money tree (fat woman) has a very small root system, it is loose, fibrous, easily rots and is injured. A healthy root lump in a fat woman is much smaller than the aboveground part, so a normal pot is small compared to other home flowers.
But since the fat woman is called a tree for a reason - the massiveness of the trunks creates a constant threat of overturning, the best landing option is to choose a small pot and a larger planter. Put the crassula in a small pot, and place it in a stable planter (possibly clay or weighted with river stones).
Freya: The fat woman needs a big pot only because it is very heavy, and, growing up, begins to alter the pot, threatening to just roll over! I transplanted one of my own in the fall for this reason! But in a large pot you need to make a large drainage, at least 5 cm high, and not from expanded clay, but weighty river stones. Then there will be no bay and the pot will not turn over.
Ground for money tree
Question: In which soil to plant a money tree?
Mila: Into ordinary land for cacti or succulents. More baking powder (small pebbles or large vermiculite), add coals. And do not moisturize, of course, after the transplant. I sometimes add very small expanded clay (by the way, it is also present in the finished cactus mixture). You can put a red brick broken with a hammer (not only silicate, but red). By the way, in the absence of perlite, it added foam balls to the mixture for succulents (you take a couple of pieces from containers from any technique, rub them together, and they crumble into small balls). It turns out very well.
irina-bahus: I plant Aurika Gardens in the ground - not bad land, but expensive.
Natalie: the soil for a money tree (thick) should be with a small content of humus, porous, quickly drying, slightly acidic reaction. I take for a young tree:
- 2 part of the sheet land (in the birch and linden park), I add to them
- 1 part of zeolite pellets (cat litter Barsik Standard - sieve washed),
- add 1/2 parts of clay (dry and break with a hammer into crumbs 5 mm thick)
- 1/2 part of coconut substrate
I mix everything in a basin and plant a money tree. I water it only two days after the transplant. I never advise transplanting in the heat, only at moderate temperatures (20-24C).
If the tree is large, with thick trunks, an adult - over 5 years old, then I replace the 1 part of the leaf land with turf (I take it in moles in a meadow and sift it from roots and garbage).
How to resuscitate and care for a money tree
Question: My money tree was beautiful, but now I hung up all my branches and became like a suitcase - it turned out, and what can't I do with it?
Buttercup: Most likely, it flooded - this is a typical problem, you need to examine the roots. And caring for a money tree is very simple: once a year, transplanting and watering only when the land is completely dry. You don't even have to feed, you don't need to spray, periodically pinch branches, those that seem too long to you.
Oksana: If the roots are rotted, then you can still cut and re-root live branches.
Colleague: It was necessary to immediately stop watering and treating with fungicide. And now it is better to trim the top and root.
Natalie: Get out of the pot, if the earth is raw, leave without a pot to dry, properly the earth and roots. If the earth falls off, then powder the roots with coal powder, plant them in fresh dry earth. At first, do not water, but only spray the leaves 2 times a day. Caring for a money tree (sweatshirt) is really easy - enough morning or evening sun (do not put far from the window), it is better to take care of the windowsill of the east or north-west window, water when the ground is completely dry! Replant once a year by the method of transshipment, without tormenting the roots, I never feed mine, it grows perfectly. Oh, yes, once a quarter I rinse under a warm shower from dust.
Stivi: The girls in the forum advise to blow dry the flooded earth, but blow exclusively on an earthen lump, cover the trunk and leaves so as not to overheat. Here, however, you need to be able to dry so as not to dry out the roots in dust. Therefore, the safest way is to dry the root with paper napkins or toilet paper.
Dormant period at the money tree
Question: Does the fat woman need a cold period of rest. Can I put it on the balcony?
Mila: The minimum temperature at which the fat woman feels good is + 10 C. Based on this, decide, first, measure the night temperature on your balcony. If the difference is plus or minus 2 degrees, then it is quite possible. But you still have to watch - the weather is still very unstable.
Oksana: She loves a period of rest in the cold, sick plants come to life, but without watering, of course, if exposed to the cold. And in spring and summer it grows smartly in the open air. Only from direct rays must be covered.
Mashulya: About the cold - that's for sure! Mine just got prettier, however, if it can be called a cold of 14-15 degrees, it was on the balcony where I put it.
Lusi: Mine winters in a room on the south window, I water it, but only after completely drying the ground in a pot (about 1 time a month).
How to form a money tree
Question: I really want to know how to properly form a money tree. Now the bush is 15 cm high.
Elizabeth: For example, I don't form it at all - it grows to the light so it stretches, so I periodically twist it so that I can evenly shoot.
irina-bahus: I was actually trying to shape my money tree. True, his leaves are not wooden or "green," but the shape of a coin of a country unknown to me. It is pinched when a couple of leaves have just appeared. I had to pinch 4 times until the tree figured out what I wanted from it. That is, if you want it to branch out, you need to pinch it a little earlier than the required level.
Bug: If you want branching now, then pinch off the top, if it doesn't help, then after a while - again. Moreover, spring is in the yard - it will now trample both wide and high.
Fraoola: I formed mine exactly like a tree. She left three beautiful skeletal branches, extra shoots and large lower leaves plucked. Then I do the same so that the crown does not thicken. It grows in a small area, almost like a bonsai.
Anyuta: If you want one trunk, and fluffy on top, Then you need to pinch every 3rd pair of leaves from infancy. Pinching is the removal of a growth point on the stem; the tip of the stem is pinched with fingers or cut off with scissors.
Money tree throws off leaves
Question: I have two fat women standing next to me, I water them the same way, one feels great, and this last time I started throwing leaves.
Olga: And if I throw off a leaf, then a new one gives an escape.
Sveta: My beauty is already five years old, she took a five-centimeter process with two pairs of leaves. Now she waved 70 cm in height, the crown is about 60 by 60 cm, the trunk is 10 cm in diameter (measured with a ruler). This is the preface - I mean that every year by the fall she throws off old leaves, the first two years there was a panic, we drove round dances around her, and then calmed down, realized that this is normal. She still started throwing yellow sheets, and that's normal.
irina-bahus: My fat woman also decayed with normal fatty leaves this fall, although she has not yet fallen under her own weight. Now in place of the fallen leaves, lateral shoots grow.
Oksana: Sometimes this is a signal that it is time to transplant, she does not have enough space and land, maybe that's why she fell.
Agava: You can reliably ditch a fat woman by overflow and stagnation of water in a pot. Check the ground in the pot.