Guide to the care and cultivation of chickens and chickens (2024)

Care of chickens and chickens

Here are the main care requirements, which are minimal, for growing chickens and chicks.

• Place the plantclear lightor full sun, place the plant in light shade unless you live in a very hot, dry climate.
• Use well-drained, coarse soil outdoors or a succulent/cactus mix indoors.
• Be careful not to smother the plant with too much water and fertilizer. Check the soil for dryness before watering.
  

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Grow your chickens and chicken plants in itfull sun(at least six hours per day), which will lead to both optimal leaf color and abundant shifts. That said, the plants can also grow in partial shade, especially if cared for in a particularly hot, dry climate.

Land

Chickens and chicken plants are particularly casual about their soil, but grow best in a mix that is sandy or gravelly. The most important soil requirement for the plant is that it is well-drained. If your soil is heavy and does not drain well, you can incorporate some gravel, pumice, perlite or sand into the mixture to increase aeration and drainage. These plants prefer a neutral soil.

If you grow your plants in a container, the best potting medium is a mix formulated for succulents and cacti.

Water

Chickens and hens aredrought tolerantperennials, so they can survive for weeks without itirrigation. Give newly transplanted plants plenty of water to help them get established, but once they are, be careful not to overwater them. Check the soil and make sure it is dry before watering.

Temperature and humidity

Chickens and chicks can be raised successfully in a variety of temperatures, but prefer an average climate between 65 and 75 degrees Fahrenheit. If the temperature drops too low, they won't necessarily die out, but they will certainly stop growing and merge into onehalf asleepstands. Additionally, chickens tolerate a wide range of humidity levels and are quite popular in dry climates.

Fertilizer

This ground cover can thrive in poor soil. They appreciate a slow-release fertilizer, designed for succulents or cacti, that is low in nitrogen and contains beneficial soil microbes. Be careful not to fertilize too much.

Types of chickens and chickens

You can find this plant in two varieties:Evergreen roofs were. legacy feeling, whose leaves are covered with velvety hairs; AndEvergreen roofs were. to take, with smooth leaves lined with hairs.

Commercially there are different variants of itSt. tageoffered, bred for different leaf colors and shapes:

• 'Bernstein'her copper and gold leaf.
• 'Big blue'is a striking variant with blue-green leaves.
• 'Kind'is a great version with green leaves with purple tips.
• 'Terracottababy'is a variety with vibrant orange-red leaves.
• 'Claudia'has large rosettes with bright red leaves.
• 'Silderose'has 5-inch rosettes of red leaves, tinged with brown.
• 'Lancelot'has brown-red leaves.
• 'Morgenrote'is a beautiful cultivar with vertical red leaves with green edges.
• 'Pelora'is a special mutant variety with light green, spherical leaves.

Other species of this genus are also sold, usually as houseplants. You can lump them together asLive foreverwithout species indication.

Breeding chickens and chickens

Nastyto spreada chicken and chicken plant, simply divide the offshoots (the "chicks") from the parent plant (the "chicken"), retaining the roots of each plantlet if possible. This is how you do it:

1. Use a small trowel to transplant the suckers into well-drained soil, creating a shallow hole in which the roots can spread.
2. Replace the soil at the crown of the plant and gently compact it around the roots.
3. You can give the offset a light watering, but allow the new plant to dry out between waterings. The plants spread naturally under ideal conditions.

How to grow chickens and chickens from seed

In addition to propagating by digging up the expelled chicks, you can also grow chickens and chicks from the seeds produced by the flowers of an adult plant. Seeds from hybrid plants may not produce plants that are true to the parents. If you want to try propagating from seed, follow these steps:

1. Collect the seeds from the pods that remain after the flowers have wilted and scatter them over pots filled with cactus/succulent potting mix.
2. Lightly moisten the mixture and place the pan in a bright place; the seeds should germinate within three weeks.
3. At this point you can add some fine gravel and mulch.

Potting and repotting chickens and chickens

Chickens and chickens are also goodgarden plant in pot or container, both outside and inside. This plant does well when planted in a shallow, well-drained container filled with a cactus/succulent potting mix. Use a clay pot that wicks moisture to avoid overwatering. Hens and chicks can be grown alone as a small cluster colony or in a large container as one plant in a mixed grouping of succulents or a miniature rock garden.

Overwintering

Hens and chicks do not need winter protection, but they hate wet winter conditions, so it is best to clean up soil debris to prevent accumulated moisture from causing rot. Outdoor houseplants are exposed to extreme temperatures in cold winter zones. Therefore, place them in a sheltered spot or bring them indoors for the winter.

Common pests and plant diseases

Chickens and chickens raised indoors, in a greenhouse, or in overly humid conditions often have the biggest problem with pests, usually in the form ofMelbugsInaphids.If you notice signs of an infestation, try removing the insects with a cotton swab or cotton swab dipped in rubbing alcohol. You can also treat the plants with ittake oilofinsecticidal soap.

Damp conditions or poor drainage can promote a variety of fungal leaf spotswortelrot. Keeping these plants in dry conditions is the best way to prevent these problems.

How to make chickens and chickens thrive

What do chicken and chicken flowers look and smell like?

Up close, the plant's flower is small and delicate, and not the showiest flower, nor is there a trace of fragrance. When these rare flowers appear, they are at the end of a vertical elongated stem. The flowers have six to even twelve petals with a daisy-like appearance. The flower colors vary from pink, orange, yellow or white.

How to encourage more flowers

These plants are grown for their leaves and geometric growth habit, so flowering is not necessarily desirable nor should it always be encouraged. These are plants that usually reproduce vegetatively and not through seeds. So flowering can even be a sign of bad conditions.A chicken and chicken plant will bloom when it feels stressed by overcrowding or extreme light or temperature changes.

Additionally, it may take at least a few years for this plant to produce an emergency bloom. But if you want the plant to bloom (for example, if you want to experiment with seed propagation), you can deliberately stress the plant by shading it.

Care of chickens and chicks after flowering

A plant, such as hens and chicks, that dies after flowering is called a monocarpic succulent. Flowering does not always occur, which is completely normal. In an adult plant, the central rosette (hen) will die after flowering. You can remove the stem or leave it so it can collapse into the colony and create a compost. Either way, the compensated chicks will continue the colony. If you want to remove the stem after the flowers have faded, cut it back, but be careful not to damage nearby protrusions. An established colony will be able to survive for decades with this constant replacement of rosettes, with or without flowers.

Common problems with chickens and hens

Under ideal conditions, chickens are generally a carefree plant. If problems arise, it is often because the plant is receiving too much water.

The plant becomes mushy

When the leaves soften and begin to wilt, it is usually because extremely wet conditions are causing the plant to rot. The roots may already be rotting, so the best solution is to dig up the plant, tear off any "chicken" rosettes that are still intact, and discard the bad parts. If this occurs regularly, it indicates that your soil needs better drainage by amending it with sand or gravel.

Rosettes die back

It is normal for a "chicken" rosette to die after it produces flowers and sets seed. Paradoxically, this plant is more likely to bloom and then die if it receives too much water or too much fertilizer.