Indoors
Echeveria
Echeveria
- Cat: not toxic
- Dog: not toxic
- Light: full sun
About the plant
The echeveria comes from Mexico and forms rosettes of thick, fleshy leaves, often edged with pink. It stores water in them, so it copes better with neglect than with overwatering. In strong light the rosette stays tight; in shade it stretches out.
Echeveria and pets
- Cat
- not toxic
- Dog
- not toxic
The ASPCA entry is for Echeveria elegans; other echeverias are considered as safe.
Care
- Watering
- about every 10 days in summer (April to September), every 21 in winter. Let the soil dry out to the bottom.
- Light
- full sun
- Air humidity
- low
- Temperature
- 10–30 °C
- Feeding
- April to September, every 6 weeks
- Repotting
- every 2 years, in spring
- Grown
- in a pot
Water only once the soil is completely dry, and never into the middle of the rosette. In winter on a bright sill almost without water; in shade the rosette stretches.
This is a rough guide for a flat in Poland. In flowers every plant also has its own watering interval, which learns from how the soil was.