sedum, or sedum (lat. Sedum)- a genus of succulents of the Crassulaceae family. Popularly, this plant is also called hernia or fever grass. In nature, sedum grows on dry slopes and meadows of Africa, Eurasia, North and South America. The name of the plant is derived from the word sedo, which in Latin means to subside - the fact is that the leaves of some types of sedum were used as a painkiller. There is even a myth that the son of Hercules Telephos cured with sedum a serious wound that Achilles inflicted on him with a spear. Today, science knows more than 300 types of sedum, about 100 species are grown in culture, as well as many varieties and hybrids of sedum. Among them there are garden plants, like the great sedum, and there are indoor plants, like the Morgana sedum.
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Planting and caring for sedum
- Landing: sowing seeds for seedlings - in March-April, planting seedlings in open ground - at the end of May.
- Bloom: summer and autumn.
- Lighting: bright sunlight, diffused light or partial shade.
- The soil: any, even rocky, but pre-fertilized with organic matter.
- Watering: Natural rainfall is usually sufficient, but in severe drought it is necessary to water regularly.
- Feeding: in spring and autumn, a solution of complex mineral or organic fertilizer - a diluted infusion of bird droppings (1:20) or mullein (1:10). Fresh manure cannot be used as fertilizer.
- Reproduction: cuttings and dividing the bush. Rarely - by seed method.
- Pests: weevils, aphids, thrips and sawfly caterpillars.
- Diseases: fungal rot.
- Properties: some species are medicinal plants with antitumor, anti-inflammatory, regenerating, stimulating, hemostatic, wound-healing and tonic effects.
Read more about growing sedum below.
Sedum flower - description
Sedums are perennial and sometimes biennial herbaceous succulent plants, subshrubs or shrubs with fleshy, alternate, sessile, entire, whorled or opposite leaves of various sizes, shapes and colors, star-shaped bisexual flowers of various shades, collected in dense apical or lateral shields , umbrellas or brushes. Sedums bloom in summer or autumn.
Sedums are excellent honey plants that attract bees to the garden. Tropical sedums are grown mainly as indoor plants, and perennial winter-hardy sedums with creeping or erect stems are cultivated in gardens. All types of sedum are drought-resistant and light-loving, but grow well in partial shade.
Sedum is a relative of plants such as echeveria, kalanchoe, spotted petal and young. The topic of our article is planting and caring for sedum in open ground.
Sowing sedum
Sedum can be propagated in the garden by seed seedlings. Sedum seeds are sown in March-April at a distance of 4-5 cm from each other in boxes or containers on the surface of a substrate of garden soil and sand, sprinkled with coarse sand on top, sprayed with water from a spray bottle, covered with glass or film and placed on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator for stratification at a temperature of 0-5 ºC. As long as the crops are in the refrigerator, you need to lift the film daily to ventilate and remove condensation. The substrate should be slightly damp at all times.
After two weeks, the sedum crops are transferred to the room and kept at a temperature of 18-20 ºC. Shoots should appear in two to four weeks, but all this time you need to ventilate the shoots, remove condensation from the film and spray the surface of the substrate when it dries.
You can sow sedum seeds for seedlings before winter. They do this in the order already described, only they place the box with the crops not in the refrigerator, but dig them in the garden or take them to the greenhouse - under such conditions, seed stratification takes place. In April, the seeds are brought into the house for germination.
Caring for sedum seedlings
Sedum seedlings are very small. When they start to appear en masse, remove the cover. In the development phase of seedlings with two true leaves, they are planted in separate pots. Caring for sedum seedlings involves regular watering and light loosening of the substrate. A week before planting in the ground, hardening procedures begin, consisting of daily sessions in the fresh air, the duration of which gradually increases.
When to plant sedum in the ground
Planting sedum in open ground is carried out at the end of May, when the threat of return frosts has passed. Sedum is not picky, it can grow both in bright sun and in partial shade, but it still feels better in the light. It needs to be planted in an open place, away from deciduous trees and shrubs, so that during leaf fall the sedum is not covered with leaves - it will not have enough strength to break out from under them in the spring.
How to plant sedum
Unpretentious to the composition of the soil, sedum can grow even on rocky soil, but if you want to see it in better shape, then fertilize the area before planting with a small amount of organic matter - humus or compost.
Make holes in the soil at a distance of 20 cm from each other and plant sedum seedlings in them. After planting, water the seedlings abundantly. Sedums bloom from seeds in the second or third year.
Caring for sedum in the garden
How to grow sedum
Caring for sedum consists of fairly frequent weeding, although a species such as caustic sedum copes well with all weeds, which is why it is often used to frame flower beds and alpine slides. However, most types of sedum are completely powerless against weeds, and you will have to constantly clear the soil of weeds. Water sedum only during periods of abnormal heat or drought. It is necessary to monitor the growth of sedum shoots and shorten them in time so that they do not grow.
To maintain the decorative appearance of the plant, cut off faded inflorescences and dried leaves, and remove green shoots from plants with multi-colored stems. In spring and autumn, sedum is fertilized with complex mineral fertilizer or liquid organic matter - a diluted infusion of mullein (1:10) or bird droppings (1:20). Do not use fresh manure to fertilize sedum.
Reproduction of sedum
At the beginning of the article, we told you about how to grow sedum from seeds. If you decide to sow seeds collected from your own sedums, the plants that grow from them will most likely not inherit the varietal characteristics. The seed method is used only for primary cultivation and for experiments in breeding new varieties. To propagate varietal sedums, vegetative methods are used - cuttings or dividing the bush.
Ground cover sedums are cut before or after flowering: a finger-length piece is cut from the shoot, freed from the lower leaves and rooted in a loose substrate, immersing the cutting so that at least one node is underground. The rooted cuttings are planted in a permanent place. In spring, cut cuttings are immediately planted in open ground.
In the fall, you can cut several shoots of sedum, place them in a vase, like a bouquet, and regularly change the water in it so that it does not stagnate. By spring, you will have a whole bush of cuttings with roots, which can be planted in a flowerbed. If the roots of the cuttings have grown by mid-winter, plant the cuttings in a pot with soil, and in the spring, replant them using the transshipment method to a permanent place.
In principle, any sedum shoot or part of it can take root right on the spot: free a piece of land from weeds, fertilize it, level and compact the surface of the soil, spread sedum cuttings over the surface, sprinkle them with a soil mixture of garden soil and sand and press lightly. The survival rate of cuttings using this method ranges from 70 to 100%.
Tall sedums, or sedums, are propagated by division at four to five years of age. The bush is dug up in early spring, the rhizome is cleared of soil and divided into parts so that each of them contains both roots and buds. The sections are treated with a fungicide, the sections are dried in a cool shade for several hours, and then planted in a permanent place.
Replanting sedum
In one place, sedum grows for up to five years, after which it requires rejuvenation. You can cut off the old shoots on the sedum, add fresh soil to the root and fertilize it, but it is better to replant the plant. Transplanting sedum is usually carried out simultaneously with dividing it into parts, as described in the previous section.
Pests and diseases of sedum
Sedum is very resistant to diseases and pests, but if you overdo it with watering or the summer is too rainy and cool, the sedum can be affected by fungal diseases. The symptoms of the disease look like dark spots on the leaves of the plant. Heavily affected bushes need to be dug up and burned, and those that are only slightly affected by the infection are treated with a fungicide solution.
Among the pests that can harm sedum are weevils, aphids, thrips and sawfly caterpillars. Weevils are collected by hand or shaken off at night by the light of a lantern onto white paper spread under the bushes, after which they are collected and destroyed. And against aphids, false caterpillars and thrips, treatments of sedum with insectoacaricides, for example, Actellik, are effective.
How and when to collect sedum seeds
Sedums grown from seeds, as we have already written, do not retain varietal characteristics. In addition, sedum blooms until frost and disappears under the snow with green leaves, so collecting its seeds is very difficult. And is it necessary to collect seeds if you can easily propagate sedum by cuttings or dividing the bush?
Preparing sedum for winter
After the first real frost, it is better to cut off the sedum, leaving only 3-4 cm of shoots above the ground, which need to be covered with soil. Cut shoots can be rooted and planted in the garden next year. Some gardeners do not prune sedum - they like the look of sedum dusted with snow. But over the winter, the sedum will lose its attractiveness, and it will still have to be pruned in the spring.
Types and varieties of sedum
Sedums are divided into ground cover plants, sedum proper (Sedum), and sedums (Hylotelephium), taller plants that are a subgenus of sedum. The following types of sedum are most often grown in gardens:
Or big sedum, or sedum, or telephium sedum (Hylotelephium triphyllum), or purple sedum (Sedum purpureum), or bean grass, or crow fat, or live grass, or hare cabbage - a perennial honey plant 25-30 cm high with a thick erect stem, sessile flat alternate or opposite leaves, oval and serrated along the edges. Sedum blooms in the second half of summer with red or greenish-yellow flowers, collected in dense corymbose panicles on the tops of the stems. In nature, it can be found in the temperate climate of Asia and Europe on forest edges, clearings, bushes, pine forests and on the slopes of ravines.
This is a medicinal sedum, the leaves of which are used in folk medicine as a strengthening and tonic. Large sedum has several subspecies:
- common legume– with dark purple inflorescences;
- ordinary large– with yellowish or greenish-white inflorescences;
- ordinary ordinary– differs from the previous subspecies in the shape of the leaves narrowed towards the base;
- common Ruprecht's- subspecies with creamy white flowers.
Breeders have developed many varieties of sedum, and all of them are in demand in gardening. The most popular varieties of sedum are:
- sedum Matrona- a powerful plant up to 60 cm high with large blue-green leaves with reddish edges on dark purple stems. Inflorescences are light pink;
- black Jack– a plant up to 40 cm high with bluish-purple foliage and dense inflorescences of pink flowers;
- Linda Windsor– a bush with erect stems of dark burgundy color, dark red leaves and ruby inflorescences;
- Strawberries and Cream– a hybrid up to 40 cm high with green leaves and reddish-pink buds that open into cream flowers, which is why the inflorescences look two-colored;
- Picolett- a compact variety up to 30 cm high with small red-bronze leaves with a metallic tint and dense pink inflorescences.
Also popular are the large sedum varieties Ruby Glow, Rosie Glow, Bon-bon, Vera Jamieson, Green Expectations, Gooseberry Full, Hub Gray, Crazy Raffles, Xenox and others;
Soapwort, beewort, six-week-old, living grass, lady's flower - found in nature in Russia, the Caucasus, Western Europe, Asia Minor and North Africa. This species received its name because of its white fragrant flowers, collected in a paniculate inflorescence consisting of several branches. It is an evergreen perennial that forms mats up to 5 cm high, with short vegetative branches and plump oval curled elliptical leaves up to 10 cm long.
White sedum has several varieties:
- white small-flowered– a form with white flowers and never-reddening green spherical leaves;
- white wall– abundantly flowering sedum with purple or bronze leaves and pink flowers;
- white wall cristatum– the overgrown ends of the shoots of this garden form are densely planted with leaves.
The most famous varieties of white sedum:
- Coral Carpet– sedum about 5 cm high with reddish leaves, which turn completely red in autumn;
- France– tall sedum with long green leaves that gradually turn pink in the bright sun;
- Laconicum– tall sedum with densely planted green, sometimes reddening leaves;
Lambs, goose soap, wild pepper, fever grass, young, pimple, ruddy, guillemot, jadrenets - grows in the European part of Russia, Western Siberia, the Caucasus, Asia Minor and North America. The sap of this plant can cause ulcers on the skin, hence the name of the species. Sedum is a plant up to 10 cm high with branched round stems, fleshy, bare, dark green alternate leaves up to 6 mm long, which the plant does not shed even in winter, and golden-yellow flowers up to 1.5 cm in diameter, collected in half umbrellas. This species has a variety of forms:
- Aureum– this sedum has yellowish ends of its shoots in spring;
- Minus– a very low-growing sedum with dense small leaves;
- Elegance– low-growing sedum with variegated twisted leaves;
Grows in subalpine meadows and on rocky slopes of the Caucasus, Turkey and Iran. It is a winter-hardy perennial with long creeping rhizomes, creeping or ascending stems, fleshy opposite dark green ovate-cuneate leaves, crenate or thickly toothed at the edges and corymbose dense inflorescences consisting of purple or pink flowers. The species has been in culture since 1816. The most popular varieties of false sedum:
- Album– a variety with white flowers and green leaves;
- Bronze Carpet– a variety with pink flowers and leaves that turn bronze in autumn;
- Ruby Mantle– sedum with purple flowers and dark red leaves;
- Shorebuser Bluth- This sedum has green leaves with a red border in spring, and red leaves in autumn.
The varieties Erd Blut, Fulda Glut, Purpurteppih, Coccineum, Roseum, Salmoneum and others are also grown in the gardens;
Or prominent sedum native to North Korea, Japan and Northeast China. This is a plant up to half a meter high with thickened tuberous roots, erect stems, bare, large sessile bluish-green leaves of spatulate or oval shape, jagged along the edge, and purple-carmine or lilac-pink flowers up to 1 cm in diameter, collected in half-umbrellas up to 15 cm in diameter. In Europe, this species has been cultivated since 1853, and in Asia much earlier.
Both the main species and its numerous varieties are grown in gardens:
- Iceberg– sedum up to 35 cm high with white flowers;
- Diamond– an old variety with pink flowers with bright anthers and bright pink carpels;
- Septemberglut– a variety with large dark pink inflorescences consisting of small flowers;
- Stardust, Snow Queen– sedum with white flowers;
- Meteor, Carmen– similar-looking sedum plants with purple inflorescences;
- Autumn Faye– a variety up to half a meter high with greenish-gray leaves and copper-colored inflorescences;
- Neon– sedum up to 35 cm high with large bright pink inflorescences.
In garden culture, sedums are also grown spatulate-leaved, Alberta, pale yellow, hybrid, dense-leaved, Spanish, Kamchatka, Kuril, carneum, linear, Lydian, pampiniform, Middendorf, multi-stemmed, annual, Oregon, recurved, sedum-shaped, shoot-bearing, divergent, Selskogo, blue, opposite-leaved, dark red, thick-branched, thin, slender, Trolla, narrow-leaved, Forstera, six-rowed and subulate.
Of the sedum plants, the most commonly grown species are white-pink, anakampseros, blanching, viviparous, Siebold, Caucasian, false-representative, whorled, nautesny, Tatarinov, poplar-leaved, Ussuri and Eversa.
Properties of sedum
Medicinal properties of sedum
In folk medicine, sedum species are considered medicinal: common (purple, large), prominent and caustic.
Common sedum, or sedum, or hare cabbage, has antitumor, anti-inflammatory, regenerating, stimulating, hemostatic, wound-healing and tonic effects. It is a powerful biogenic stimulant, exceeding the activity of aloe, and the effect of this sedum is mild and does not cause side effects. As an adjuvant, sedum is used to treat pneumonia, bronchitis, hepatitis, non-healing wounds and trophic ulcers, impotence, nervous disorders, kidney and bladder diseases, and cancer.
Sedum is useful for diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, anemia, ischemia, epilepsy, and pulmonary failure. It lowers blood pressure, stops bleeding, calms the nervous system, relieves pain and inflammation, heals wounds, neutralizes the effects of bacteria and microbes, dilates blood vessels, promotes mucus discharge, stimulates the endocrine glands, removes toxins from the body, reduces cholesterol levels, restores joint mobility , strengthens the immune system.
Sedum has a diuretic and irritant effect. It is used to treat malaria, enhance intestinal motility, increase blood pressure, heal wounds, burns and ulcers, treat catarrh of the upper respiratory tract, dropsy, anemia, jaundice, and skin tuberculosis in children. Preparations from sedum have an analgesic effect.
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Sedum is very popular among people. It is also called hernia grass or fever grass, hare cabbage, squeaky grass, and young grass. One of the large Crassulaceae family. Today, many varieties of this cute plant have been bred. In Russia, the most common varieties are white, vine-shaped and linear.
Some types of sedum belong to the subgenus “sedum” and many of them have changed their names.
Among such diversity there are plants whose shoots spread along the ground. This group includes both sedums and sedums. There are also upright types of both.
Reference! The main difference between sedums and sedums, other than their bush form, is the shape of the flower.
Sedums have small inflorescences, white, yellow, pale pink and crimson in color, very similar to small stars. Sedum plants have bell-shaped flowers, and the color is approximately the same color scheme.
The flowers of sedums, sedums and tenacious plants are collected in corymbose inflorescences. Inflorescences can be either dense, consisting of many flowers located close to each other, or loose; in this case, there are fewer flowers in them, and they are not located so closely to each other.
Reproduction of sedums at home
It is very easy to obtain new sedum seedlings. But first you need to decide on the method of reproduction. Sedums can be propagated either by cuttings or by dividing the bush, or they can also be grown from seeds. If we talk about the pros and cons of these methods of propagation, then cuttings are the easiest of them. In addition, this option for growing sedums is reliable and very fast.
If the grower wants to get the largest amount of planting material, then winter cuttings by cutting off the shoots before frost and storing them on racks until the formation of aerial roots are better suited. When varieties are grown together with seeds, sedums are prone to hybridization. Offspring can be unpredictable. In addition, this method takes longer.
Let's look at detailed instructions for each method.
Cuttings
After 3-6 years, most species of this plant must be divided to maintain smooth carpets. This can be done using cuttings. Some of the species need rejuvenation. For sedums such as Spanish or caustic, after time, old shoots are removed and fresh substrate is added.
Dividing the bush
- Dig up the plant in autumn or spring.
- Gently shake off the soil from the roots.
- Divide the bushes into two parts using scissors or pruners. Each part must have buds.
- It is recommended to keep the bushes outdoors for a couple of days so that they can heal the wounds. Sunlight should be avoided.
- Then plant in sandy soil and do not water for the first two days.
When caring, we must not forget about frequent weeding - ridding sedums of weeds. Watering is only necessary if the summer is very dry or very little time has passed since planting, because sedums are drought-resistant plants.
Sowing seeds for seedlings
Now in stores there is a large assortment of sedum seeds of various types. If you decide to collect the seeds of this amazing plant in your garden yourself, then you need to follow these steps.
Attention! It will not be possible to propagate varietal sedums by seeds.
- Wait until the inflorescences dry out and the small fruits begin to crack.
- They can be collected and stored until completely dry in a breathable paper bag. Then they will easily give up their seeds.
- Then, before winter or already in spring, sow in pots or directly into a flower bed.
- It is better to prepare the substrate from garden soil, compost and sand in proportions 1:1:1.
- Water the soil generously.
- Distribute the seed over the surface.
- Lightly sprinkle with soil.
- As the soil dries, spray it with a spray bottle.
If we talk about varietal sedums (with variegated and multi-colored leaves), then they are more capricious than their parent species. From time to time they wild shoots appear, they are green in color and must be removed. Otherwise, the entire variety may turn green.
Seed material can be stored in the refrigerator for no more than a year.
As you can see, it is very easy to propagate sedums on your site (read about how to plant sedum and further care for it in open ground). With their help you can set up a garden or decorate single flower beds. Modest plants will add their own zest and special charm to any space.
Possible difficulties in caring for a flower
At low temperatures and high humidity, sedums often suffer from fungal diseases. They appear as dark spots on stems and leaves. Affected plants are destroyed.
If planting, storage or were incorrect, the sedum may begin to hurt. Due to unsuitable conditions, various diseases and pests appear. Despite the fact that most plants are quite resistant to this kind of trouble, there are also less resistant varieties. Sawflies and caterpillars do not spare sedum leaves. But you can lure them out with a leaf of lettuce or cabbage. And treat the plant itself with special means.
High air humidity may cause fungal infections.. The spots spread to the leaves and stem. In such cases, the damaged areas are removed and the plant is processed again.
When infesting a plant with aphids, the same means are used as for black currants. This treatment serves as excellent protection and does not harm the flower itself.
Sedum sedum is considered a fairly common plant. It is loved not only for its decorative qualities when decorating a garden, but also for its healing properties (read about the amazing medicinal properties of purple, tenacious, large and caustic sedum). Sedum, planted and cared for correctly, will bloom very beautifully and unusually, decorating the garden. There are many types of sedum, so you can easily choose a plant to suit your taste..
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Sedum is an unpretentious and long-living plant. However, planting and caring for sedum in open ground can vary in level of complexity depending on what variety we are talking about and whether the plant is accustomed to a temperate climate.
Growing in open ground
Planting and caring for sedum in open ground is not too complicated, but nevertheless it has some features and nuances, understanding of which will allow the gardener to minimize the resources and time spent on the plant.
Not every sedum is planted in open ground. It is necessary to choose a variety based on the climate of the region, having first studied the plant’s requirements for temperature, humidity and soil type.
Sedum flowers are one of the main reasons to plant this plant in open ground. This is how they grow brighter and bigger. In addition, the flowering period itself is much longer.
Use in landscape design
Sedums are very popular in landscape design due to their diversity. The different thickness of the stem, height, shape of leaves, size and colors of flowers allows you to create beautiful compositions with the help of sedums.
In a flowerbed, different varieties of sedum need to be arranged not only according to their external characteristics, but also based on their moisture-loving properties and preference for fertilizing. You also need to pay attention to the flowering period. When all the sedums produce flowers at the same time, the compositions look especially impressive in garden design.
Sedums combine well not only with each other, but also with many other flowering plants. With the correct arrangement, sedums can not only complement the composition, but also maintain a healthy microclimate in the flowerbed.
Necessary conditions for cultivation
Growing sedums, despite the specific nuances, is carried out according to average rules. They all love abundant, but not too frequent watering, sunlight, and are not too picky about the soil.
Favorable climatic conditions
Sedum grows best in warm climates. Even those species that are accustomed to temperature changes and survive frosty winters well grow faster and bloom more abundantly during hot and humid periods.
Most sedums (almost 90 percent) like a humid climate. Only a few of them grow better in dry conditions. This nuance should be clarified when planting a specific variety.
Choosing a place for a flower bed
An average flowerbed for sedum should be in a well-lit place, but not in the sun. It is best to choose a place, part of which is shaded, and part of which is in the sun.
Gardeners should be especially careful when choosing neighbors for sedums because their roots spread widely, often up to half a meter, and they choke the root systems of most other garden plants.
Soil requirements
It is not necessary to select fertile, loose soil for sedums. The soil can be sandy, clay and rocky. The root system of the sedum grows deep enough for the plant to extract the necessary minerals and trace elements in the lower layers of the earth.
Planting dates and technology
Planting of sedums is carried out in early spring, before the active growth phase has begun, or in the fall after the flowering period. The choice of planting time depends on the age and health of the seedling. In the spring it is better to plant young plants that will quickly grow, and in the fall - older ones (5 years and older), which will survive the winter more easily.
Sedum can be planted without additional loosening and fertilizing of the soil, if its root system is already sufficiently formed.
It is best to choose a less sunny period so that the plant first strengthens itself in its new place of residence, and only then begins to spend resources on the development of the stem and leaves.
In the first two weeks after transplantation, the seedling should be watered at least once every 2-3 days.
Transfer
Sedums need to be replanted infrequently. A young plant changes its place of residence no more than once every 2 years, and an old plant no more than once every 3-4 years. Transplantation and rejuvenation are necessary only to ensure that the root system does not outgrow and begin to harm the upper shoots.
First of all, you need to dig up the sedum. Its root is deep and spreading, so you should not try to pull it out of the ground completely. In addition, this type of succulent does not reproduce by rhizome, so you should not be afraid of the appearance of new shoots in this place.
Afterwards the plant is placed in a new place on the site. There is no need to fertilize it. Abundant watering is recommended.
Subtleties of care
Caring for cleaning is not difficult even for inexperienced gardeners. Succulents themselves are quite unpretentious, but this subspecies, accustomed to growing in open ground in not the most attractive conditions, amazes with its resistance to stress and vitality.
Watering mode
It is difficult to establish a universal watering period for all varieties of sedum. More moisture-loving subspecies require regular irrigation (at least once every 3 days). Those sedums that were brought to temperate latitudes from the Far East need to be watered much less frequently (once every 5-7 days).
In any case, succulents can survive up to 2-3 weeks without moisture. This will practically not harm your health, but it is better not to risk the plant again.
Feeding
Fertilizing sedums is mandatory after illness (except winter) and during the periods when it blooms. All other additional feedings are purely situational. Sometimes gardeners add nutrients to the soil before storm warnings and cold snaps. Some sources recommend that the transplant be accompanied by abundant irrigation and fertilizing.
Diseases and pests
Sedum rarely gets sick due to its resistance to stress, but often becomes a victim of various kinds of pests. Heat-loving varieties are most often at risk.
- The main enemy of sedum is thrips and aphids. They eat not its leaves (which the plant calmly sheds), but the roots. Since without a strong and long rhizome, the sedum cannot receive the necessary minerals and trace elements, it quickly dies.
- Weevils attack leaves. They eat them faster than the plant can shed them. One or two beetles will not be able to seriously harm the plant, but a small brood can seriously ruin its health.
- Nematodes are called the scourge of cleanup. They quickly and mercilessly deal with the rhizome at the very base, and are extremely difficult to remove. The plant quickly begins to wither and fade.
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The only way to control these pests is with insecticides. If sedum was previously used for medicinal purposes, its leaves and flowers cannot be collected after treatment for at least a month.
Reproduction
Propagating sedum at home is not difficult. New succulents quickly form their own rhizome and after 1-2 weeks can be planted in open ground.
Different types of succulents have different types of propagation: cuttings, dividing the bush. Dividing the rhizome will not help in this case, since it is not a vegetative organ in the sedum.
Propagation by cuttings is the simplest and most popular method. It can be carried out as harmlessly as possible for the succulent, simply by waiting until it separates the “babies”, or you can cut them off yourself with garden shears. Afterwards, the future seedling is placed in a vessel with water to accelerate the formation of the root system. Some can be left in water for several days unattended, and some need regular fluid changes.
Afterwards, the new plant needs to be transplanted to another place. In no case should it be planted close to the mother sedum before the new sedum reaches 2 years of age, since the old rhizome will completely stifle the growth of the seedling.
Features of growing at home
Indoor sedum and outdoor sedum are two different plants, even if they belong to the same variety. Due to the inability of the sedum to develop its root system deeper, it is more difficult to plant and care for such a plant. Indoor sedums need regular fertilization.
Location and lighting
In addition to problems with nutrients, indoor sedums often lack light. When choosing the most illuminated place, the main thing is not to expose the plant to direct sunlight, otherwise it can quickly dry out and fade.
Temperature and humidity in the room
Sedum is a heat-loving and moisture-loving plant, so for comfortable growth it must be kept in a room in which the average temperature in summer does not fall below 20-23 degrees, and in winter - below 16-18.
Even those types of sedums that are frost-resistant in open ground quickly lose their natural characteristics and become quite vulnerable in indoor conditions.
To maintain a sufficient level of humidity, sedums need to be regularly sprayed with a spray bottle. Depending on the variety, this procedure should be carried out from once a day to once every 2-3 days.
Substrate and pot requirements
The soil for sedums is selected organic, but not clean. Sand is added to each substrate for sedum, and in some types clay and small stones are also added.
The drainage must be placed on the bottom of the pot in a thick (2-3 centimeters minimum) layer. It is best to use small stones or brick chips.
There are no special requirements for a vessel for sedums, the main thing is that it retains heat well. It is best to choose pots made from natural materials.
Reproduction
Indoor sedum reproduces in the same ways as “street” sedum. The only difference is that the “baby” plants from the pot first need to be dried a little, and only then placed in water. Most often, they are oversaturated with moisture, so if you immediately place the cutting in liquid, it may begin to rot. Indoor sedum also reproduces by dividing the bush, but this procedure is carried out only during transplantation, and therefore is less popular.
Caring for sedum at home requires more regular watering, fertilization and proper selection of substrate, but in comparison with hundreds of other indoor plants, it still remains the most unpretentious and simple.
Sedum is a plant that amazes with its diversity and ease of care. By choosing the right variety of sedum, a novice gardener can provide himself with a favorite for many years that reproduces easily and delights with bright flowering every year.
The diversity and number of species has led to the plant acquiring many alternative names.
Among them: “hare cabbage”, “creaking grass”, “hernia grass”, “fever grass” and even “juvenile” (although in botany this is the name of a completely different plant).
Almost all sedums are very hardy plants.
Growing and propagating them is as easy as shelling pears.
However, it is worth remembering that although sedums prefer meadows and dry slopes, they grow almost all over the world. Some of them prefer warmth, others coolness.
If you want something young the plant has taken root, such details need to be taken into account.
Reproduction
How to propagate sedum?
Sedum is propagated in various ways.
Some methods are available at any time of the year, others at certain times.
The seedlings are quite unpretentious and are only afraid of frost and direct sunlight.
Growing from seeds
In room conditions sedum seeds are sown in spring. They are laid in open ground before winter.
However, it should be noted that for sedum propagation in spring, seed stratification is necessary. That is, you need to artificially create winter conditions for the seeds to make it easier for them to germinate.
How sedum propagates by seeds:
Sedum seeds need to be kept in this state for 2 weeks. All this time, it is very important to monitor soil moisture and the presence of sufficient oxygen.
It is advisable to remove the film or glass every day and spray the ground.
After the end of the artificial winter The container with the seeds must be moved indoors. At an ideal temperature of 18 to 20 degrees, seedlings appear in 2-4 weeks.
The size of the emerging seedlings is literally miniature. As soon as they grow up and acquire leaves (one or two), they need to be picked, that is, planted in separate pots.
If you begin all manipulations with seeds in March, then at the end of May they can be planted in open ground. The distance between seedlings should be between 10 and 20 cm.
Cuttings
Propagation of sedum by cuttings is the simplest, fastest and most reliable. Even a child can grow sedum this way, which, by the way, will bring him a lot of pleasure.
Ampelous sedums reproduce independently in this way.
How to propagate sedum in the fall? To do this, you need to cut the cuttings at an angle and cover them with soil. Store in a cool, dark place.
However, if you dig up established young plants and plant them in a hole, they will most likely rot.
Even the smallest cuttings that fall to the ground by accident can successfully take root
Carry out cuttings You can do it both before and after flowering. This will not cause any harm to the plant. Cutting sequence:
- Measure out the area aboveground shoot about 5 cm long.
- Cut off selected escape area.
- Delete two lower leaves from the shoot.
- Loosen soil and press the cutting into it.
Cuttings are planted in spring straight into open ground.
The soil in which the cuttings will be planted must be well prepared.
Various weeds, regardless of their size, should be removed, and level the soil itself with a rake and lightly compact it.
Cuttings laid out on the ground, you need to sprinkle it with garden soil and sand and also lightly compact it.
Plastic palettes greatly simplify cuttings. All cells are filled with a mixture of turf soil, peat and river sand in equal proportions.
You need to plant a cutting in each cell, deepening it 2 cm.
Water follows as the soil dries. Palettes should be kept in a warm and bright place, but protected from direct exposure to the sun.
In two weeks cuttings can be replanted from the palettes to a permanent place. They cannot be kept for longer, as the stems become too elongated.
The advantage of the palettes is the presence of a lump of earth in young seedlings. This makes it much easier for her to take root in open ground.
Moreover, there is no need to trim roots. However, it is worth noting that this method is unacceptable for some species: Evers and Siebold sedums. Cuttings of these species should be planted directly into the ground.
Winter cuttings
This method used in landscaping, since it produces a lot of seedlings.
It is carried out after or at the end of flowering as follows:
Optimal temperature for cuttings- indoor temperature, but even at a lower temperature they feel good.
Good lighting required, but not direct sunlight. You need to water as the soil dries out.
At the end of spring, cuttings can be planted in open ground. They will begin to bloom in the fall.
By dividing rhizomes
Tall representatives of the genus are propagated in this way. To do this, the sedum must be an adult, at least 4 years old.
Directly division occurs as follows:
- At the beginning of spring, the sedum is dug up.
- Depending on its size, the bush is divided into several parts. Each part must have both roots and buds from which shoots will grow.
- The cut sites are treated with a fungicide.
- The separated parts of the plant are dried for several hours in a shaded and cool place.
- Planted in the ground.
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Sedum propagation: 
Top dressing
In nature, sedums do not grow in the most fertile areas. For this reason they do not need any fertilizers in order to actively grow and subsequently bloom.
However, a small amount of humus or compost soil will not harm the young plant and will only speed up its development.
But with others You should be careful with fertilizers.
Various nitrogenous fertilizers can lead to sad consequences: rotting of stems, leaves and roots.
Phosphorus-potassium fertilizers should be used in low concentrations and infrequently.
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