Caring for your Hens and Chicks...the succulent

What’s up SUCCAs? For today’s blog, I will be talking all about life. What kind of life might you ask? Well everyone, as you may have already guessed, I will be talking about extending succulent life. What’s the point of having a plant if it will die within three days? Or, would you rather be responsible of the same plant for decades? I will be providing you with some useful information that will help you see what you are getting yourself into once you buy a succulent. How long will your plant last? Well, it all depends on how you take care of it.

Each individual succulent in the world has their own lifespan. The lifetime of a succulent varies for every single plant, but their lives can get cut even shorter if the proper care is not applied to your beautiful succulent. As I researched more data about these lovely plants, I quickly realized that there are well over 100 succulent varieties which all require different care. However in this blog, I will only be discussing how to take care of your Hen and Chick succulent. Why would I pick Hen and Chick out of the hundreds of other succulents? Well SUCCAs, it’s because this had the easiest plant care routine that I could find.

Hens and Chicks have an average lifespan of three years, but if you love your succulent (like a true owner should) and you make sure it gets what it needs to survive on this earth, then it could have the potential to live up to 30 years! Yeah, that’s a huge difference. Moving on from that, I have made it very clear in my last blog that I am not a succulent expert, but from what I’ve gathered through the World Wide Web is that you have to put this plant in the right spot and water it at the right times. The first step in order to let your succulent live its best life is to put your Hens and Chicks out in the sun. This type of succulent thrives whenever they are put fully into the sun and can soak up water every once in a while. Like I said, ONCE IN A WHILE. You do not need to water this plant every day, if you do, they will drown and then die within a month. This type of succulent needs time for their roots to dry out! As easy as it seems, I believe that if you only water them every two weeks and allow the right amount of sunlight, then the Hen and Chicks will keep on producing plantlets (chicks), and then the cycle restarts. Therefore, creating a lifelong succulent!

So, I realize that most of what I mentioned today in the blog could have already been a well-known fact, but for my readers out there who have never owned a plant, never heard about plant care routines before, or perhaps didn’t know that succulents needed less water than most species, I hope that this helped you tremendously. Just love your Hen and Chick, know when it needs you, and most importantly, keep it alive. See you in the next blog SUCCAs.