Winter can quietly stress houseplants, even when you’re caring for them regularly. Lower light levels, dry indoor air, and temperature changes often lead to yellowing leaves, wilting, or slowed growth. Many of these signs look alarming but are actually part of a plant’s natural winter response. Understanding what your plant is telling you helps prevent common mistakes like overwatering. With a few simple adjustments to light, watering, and humidity, your houseplants can stay healthy through the colder months.
It's the second half of 2020! Let's welcome July with our box featuring: Dancing Bones, Graptoveria Moonglow, Baby Necklace Crassula, Lady Fingers Cactus.
Hatiora salicornioides Dancing Bones
Hatiora salicornioides is a slender, erect, arching or somewhat pendent, bushy, cactus, up to 2 feet (60 cm) tall.
A stem consists of smaller segments, up to 1.2 inches (3 cm) long.
The flowers are small, bell-shaped, orange yellow in color, up to 0.8 inch (2 cm) long and in diameter.
Hatiora thrives best in indirect light with exposure to morning and evening sun.
Hatioras prefers spring, summer, and fall temperatures around 75-80 °F (24-27 °C). Winter temperatures should be between 45-65 °F (7-18 °C) only.
It prefers a well drained soil.Cactus or epiphytic compost works well.
It can be propagated easily through cuttings that can root immediately in soil.
Graptoveria Moonglow
Baby Necklace Crassula
Crassula Baby Necklace is a special plant which has small rounded and tightly stacked leaves. It has many colors similar to a string of beads on a necklace. Therefore, it is also known as ‘String of Buttons’, with Crassula rupestris ssp. It can grow up to 6″-12″ (tall). Crassulas are commonly grown in the quartz stone fields.
They have wonderful trailing stems for hanging baskets. They can grow up so fast in succulent's garden or window sill.
Produces yellow flowers in the fall. Full Sun, Sun to Partial Shade, Light Shade.
Water thoroughly when soil is dry to the touch, then let drain completely. Avoid letting water sit for too long in the soil to prevent rot and fungal diseases. Porous and well-drained. Optimal pH is around 6.0 (slightly acidic). Average summer temperatures from 65ºF/18ºC to 70ºF/21ºC are ideal. In winter, it can survive temperatures as low as 50ºF/10ºC
Feed with a controlled-release fertilizer at the beginning of the growing season. You can propagate Crassula Baby Necklace by division, offsets or leaf cuttings. The easiest way is to propagate from a single leaf: put the leaf in a succulent or cacti mix, then cover until it sprouts.Lady Fingers Cactus
Known as the ladyfinger cactus, Mammillaria elongata forms clusters of cylindrical stems with yellow-brown spines, giving plants an overall golden brown appearance. Pink-yellow flowers may appear in spring. Easy to grow, it’s a great cactus for beginners. Its offshoots may be used to propagate new plants. For best results grow Mammillaria elongata in cactus compost in containers in full sun. Water from mid-spring to summer only, and feed once a month with a special cactus fertiliser. Mammillaria elongata is best grown as a houseplant but containers may be moved to a sunny, sheltered patio in midsummer.
Partial sun, partial shade. Porous, well-drained. This cactus prefers cooler temperatures, so avoid placing it close to any heat sources. But also protect the plant from frost and freezing temperatures. Try not to overwater the plant, but you can mist its leaves every other day to maintain its preferred level of humidity (50-60%).
Generally non-toxic to humans and animals
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