When the echeveria bloomed, what to do next: how to organize the irrigation regime, how to properly care for the plant, and also how the buds look in the photo?

Echeveria or Echeveria (lat. Echeveria) - unpretentious perennial succulent plant of the family Crassulaceae. It has dense leaves of various shapes, collected in a rosette with a diameter of 5-30 cm. In nature, grows in places with a dry hot climate on the plains and low mountains (Mexico, Peru, South America) and has about 170 species.

The plant is characterized by thick fleshy leaves, forming rosettes tightly twisted in a spiral, because of which the people have received the name "stone flower" and "stone rose". The flower was named after Atanasio Eheverria, an illustrator of books on the flora of Mexico.

Plant species

Attention: Most species of echeveria grown indoors can produce flowers, but this result can only be achieved by providing the plant with a sufficient amount of light, due to the geographical origin of the species.

The plant is ready for flowering after 2-3 years of life. The usual flowering time of Echeveria is spring and summer, however, there are species in which flowers appear in winter. Flowering lasts from two weeks to a month. The flowering period can be changed by regulating daylight hours.

Known flowering indoor echeveria varieties are presented in the table below:

Variety	Flowers	Flowering period
Agave	Small flowers (1-1.5 cm) in the form of rounded bells, whether yellow or red	Late spring in early summer
White hair	Bright red-brown flowers (cinnabar shade) are located on peduncles 40-50 cm long.	Mid spring
Brilliant	Inflorescences in the shape of an umbrella or brush are bright scarlet. Size 1-2 cm.	End of winter - early spring
Humpback flower	An inflorescence in the form of an ear on a peduncle up to 1 m in length. The flowers are red outside, yellowish inside	The end of the summer
Garms	Numerous umbrella-shaped flowers of reddish-yellow color with axillary peduncle (30-90 cm.)	Early summer
Derenberg	Short inflorescences (5-6 cm) with bells dark orange on the outside and yellow inside	from April to June
Desmet	Yellowish flowers forming on small side arrows	Mid July
Graceful	Yellow-dangling crimson flowers appearing on branched peduncles	May
Lau	Shiny orange-pink flowers covered with a whitish layer of wax	April (in nature since the end of February)
Cushioned	Dipped red-yellow flowers 1-2 cm in diameter	Early March
Piacaksky or Peacock	Red flowers on drooping peduncles	Spring-early summer
Black Prince	Small scarlet flowers in carpal inflorescence	Early summer
Shaviana or Shaw	Produces several peduncles with alternately blooming pink flowers	Early summer
Bristly	Color and shape resembles small (1cm.) Tulips - with a transition from red to yellow; on inflorescences 30-40 cm high.	The beginning of June
Lingual	Thick drooping flower stalks bright orange	March to May (sometimes in the middle of winter)

How does it bloom?

During the flowering period, one or several long peduncles appear on the side or in the center of the leaf rosette - bare or covered with leaves. The flowers have a five-membered structure, collected in a lateral upright inflorescence.

Important: The hue of the flowers depends both on the variety and on the degree of illumination of the plant: in bright light the buds are usually redder, in dull it is yellow.

We recommend watching a video about the features of flowering echeveria:

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How to achieve the release of the arrow and the appearance of buds?

Echeveria can bloom at home only if the correct conditions for the optimum temperature of maintenance, proper watering and top dressing, competent handling depending on the season and in a suitable place are met.

In order for the buds to appear, you need to provide the flower with the following:

Temperature - in the summer - 20-27 degrees, in the winter - 6-15 degrees.
Lighting - He loves bright sunlight, including direct sunlight, so he feels most comfortable on the windowsill on the south side or on the balcony. A month before the planned flowering, you can artificially increase the amount of light by lighting with a special LED lamp.
Watering - in the summer about 2 times a week (as the top layer of the earth dries up), in the winter about 1 time per month. In the expected flowering period, it is allowed to slightly increase the intervals between watering. In order to prevent leaf decay, the plant must not be sprayed or used indoors with a humidifier. To increase the chances of flowering, it is recommended to water the stone rose less often (1 time in 2 months).
Top dressing - in the active period, with liquid complex fertilizer for flowering succulents along with watering.
Transfer - a young plant requires an annual transplant in the spring and then only as the root system fills the space of the pot (rotten or damaged roots are removed and the space for growth expands).

You will learn all the details about caring for echeveria at home here, and about secrets and methods of reproduction read here.

Faded - what's next?

When the echeveria bloomed and a long period of rest began, not everyone knows what to do next. At this time, the flower is placed in a cool well-lit place, reduce watering and reduce watering to a minimum.