Money Tree: Home Care

There are over 300 types of fatty meat. The homeland of the money tree is South Africa. The most popular indoor plants we have are Crassula ovata and Crassula arborescens. Both species have fleshy silvery gray shiny oval-shaped leaves. They give a lot of shoots and develop quickly into large sukaty specimens with a huge crown and a height of 1 meter.

Fleshy treelike blooms, reaching 10 years of age, small pink or white flowers. Feng shui plant attracts money to the house, helps to improve the financial situation. Therefore, they like to keep him so much not only at home, but also in offices.

Feng Shui pays much attention to the money tree - where to place the coins, which ribbon to tie, where to put it. The plant is unpretentious and does not require complex care. And yet there are some peculiarities. To make it develop well and bring good luck, you need to properly care for him.

The genus Crassul, to which the bastard belongs, includes a wide variety of plants. It even includes varieties for aquariums.The fat woman is quite unpretentious, it is easy to care for her. Therefore, even a budding florist money tree does not take any trouble.

Types of fat girls

The most common are the following types of money tree:

• Oveloved (Crassula ovata);

• Crassula treelike (Crassula arborescens);

• Crassula Minor;

• Buffy Sunset;

• jersey sickle;

• Crassula Alstonii;

• Buffy Campfire.

Lighting and location

The fat woman is a succulent. The plant should be where it is light, even sunny, but not on the windowsill at noon. The leaves will turn red from this, and then wither and fall away.

Need a sweather and fresh air. In summer, the plant can be taken out to the garden or to the balcony in a bright, but not sunny, place protected from rain. In winter, the money tree is important to ensure coolness (10 degrees) and it is better to move it to the south side. In conditions of too warm wintering, long, ugly shoots are formed.

The mode of watering the money tree

In the summer in room conditions, the land in a potty with sweatskin should be moderately wet. In the garden, the plant requires more watering. If it's hot outside, at least 2 times a week, one is enough on cool days. But keep in mind that the earth should in no case dry up. It is very important! Watering the plant in winter is enough 2 times a month.

Temperature conditions

The most acceptable temperature for crassula in the summer is 20-25 degrees, and in the winter - from 4 to 15. In no case should the plant be located near heating appliances and batteries.

Top dressing money tree

It is better to feed one or two times a month with fertilizer for cacti and succulents. At another time - only once a month, and it is necessary to dilute the fertilizer 2 times. Make a dressing only in a moist soil, that is, after watering.

Money tree transplant

It is not recommended to replace the bastard often. Best of all, when the plant has grown and it became cramped in a pot or a bush must be divided. The optimal time for a transplant is spring. It is advisable to buy ready-made soil for succulents and cacti, or to use floral soil with the addition of clay and sand. Be sure to fill the bottom of the pot drainage!

Reproduction of the money tree

The easiest way is to propagate by dividing the shrub and apical cuttings, but also with seeds. Apical cuttings easily form roots, especially in a mixture of peat and sand. Before planting the site of the cut, you need to dry a couple of days. Also, cuttings can be put into the water to form roots. To stimulate root growth, coal is added to the water.

Then the cuttings are planted in small pots with leafy and soddy soil and the addition of sand in equal proportions. Small plants should be kept at 16-18 degrees, watered once a day.

Flowering money tree

Blossy blooming - a rare phenomenon. One of the reasons for his absence - the lack of light. It blooms with beautiful white flowers (during the period of active growth) with a characteristic suffocating sweet smell.

Crown formation

In order for a fat woman to look like a tree, it must be shaped. For this, pruning of overgrown branches is carried out, but pruning must be done so that there are four leaves on the branch.

The crown should be lush and beautiful. To do this, you need to pinch the top, so that the plant goes wide. And also do not forget to periodically turn the plant in different directions towards the light.

Pest Control and Prevention

The greatest danger to the money tree are parasites - scale insects, spider mites, felts (mealy worms).

There are various ways to combat parasites:

• as a result of the attack of shield insects, first of all, leaves are affected. Brown and yellow spots appear on them. A soap solution of household soap or Fitoverm, Fufanon preparations save this misfortune;
• spider mite forms a spider web on the leaves and stem. The plant is treated in the same way as in the case of lesions with a shield;

• from mealybugs can help solution of household soap. And if there is no result, then use insecticides.You can try alcohol, which is applied with a cotton swab. Insecticide treatment is carried out in the form of sprays. It not only kills insects on which poison has got, but also those which still remained after spraying. The earth also needs to be well soaked with insecticide. The procedure is repeated 3 times with intervals of 10-15 days;
• A diseased plant that has been attacked by insects must be removed from the pot, rinsed thoroughly under a stream of 50-degree hot water, then fully immersed in a solution of systemic toxic chemicals for several hours. After that, the dried plant is completely transplanted into a new, uninfected soil. Do not forget to pour drainage into the pot.

The best time for himataki

The best time for chemical treatment with poisons is an evening in warm cloudy weather. In the following days, it is necessary to protect the plant from the sun so that it does not get burned. Recommended chemicals - Fufanon or Karbofos, preparations based on Imidacloprid, Actellik, Sherpa, Apollo, Decis.

If mealybugs appeared recently, you can apply the tincture of garlic: ¼ part of finely chopped garlic and ¾ part of 70% alcohol. Dampen a cotton swab in this tincture and remove the spider ball with the worm. After this, carefully treat the affected area. The same can be done using pure alcohol.

Money Tree: Home Care

Although this succulent and unpretentious, mandatory rules of care still exist:

• avoid drafts;
• dangerous excess moisture, because of which can rot the roots and base of the trunk;
• if the leaves are sluggish, then the plant, on the contrary, lacks moisture;

• it is impossible to water with cold water, otherwise the leaves of cholstyanka may fall;
• direct sunlight on the base of the money tree is absolutely unacceptable;

• wipe the leaves periodically with a damp cloth - then they will retain their healing properties;
• when transplanting to another pot for prevention, treat the roots with a weak solution of potassium permanganate;

• Replace the jade is necessary in a reliable pot, as the plant itself is quite heavy. Otherwise, in the process of growth, it can change the center of gravity, and the pot will fall, and the tree will break. Why do you need such grief?

Use of money tree

Whether the tree will attract money to the house or not is another question. But what has been scientifically proven is its benefits for human well-being and human health:

• the plant cleans the air in the room;
• relieves nervous tension;
• destroys disease-causing formations, thereby improving the microflora of the room.

Medicine on the windowsill

Not everyone knows that a fathead in its antiviral, bactericidal, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, antipruritic and regenerating properties is no less useful than the well-known aloe. The sap of the plant heals boils, wounds, cuts. It is enough to wet them with gauze and apply to the affected skin, as the effect you feel immediately. For drugs, it is important to take the upper leaves from the crown.

The fat woman helps with:

• angina, tonsillitis;
• inflammation of the gums;
• arthritis, arthrosis, gout;
• colitis;
• insect bites;
• thrombophlebitis and varicose veins;
• hemorrhoids;
• ulcer and gastritis;
• calluses.

Crassula juice is also anesthetizing. However, we must remember that it also contains toxic substances. This is an arsenic compound, so you need to be very careful, especially those who take the juice inside.

For therapeutic purposes, it is important to use only fresh juice. For example, for pain in the joints (gout, arthritis), it should be applied to the sore spot with a cotton swab. This will reduce pain and relieve swelling.

It is recommended that ulcers and those with gastritis should chew 2 leaves in the morning before breakfast. Inflammation of the trigeminal or facial nerve will help tincture of this plant on vodka or alcohol. A mixture of juice with petrolatum - a medicine against hemorrhoids. This emulsion is applied to a cotton swab and applied to the hemorrhoidal lump 3 times a day.

In addition, you can make a gruel of 5 leaves and apply it as a compress to cuts, wounds, bruises, bites - healing will occur literally before our eyes.It is also an excellent adjuvant in the treatment of herpes, eczema, depriving, skin allergies and even with psoriasis.

Contraindications

Arsenic compounds are toxic to humans - keep this in mind. You can not apply the treatment with the sap of the money tree and even make compresses for children under 12 years old, nursing mothers, pregnant women.

Money tree on photo

Here is what a wonderful and useful plant is bastard. It can not only be an excellent element of the decor of your room, but also attract good luck in financial matters, and most importantly - help your health. Therefore, the money tree must certainly be near you!