- Crassula ovata, known as the “happiness tree”, is a popular houseplant, appreciated for its ease of care.
- To ensure luxuriant growth and beautiful appearance, proper nutrition is crucial.
- Discover a simple and cheap way to make homemade eggshell fertilizer that will make your Crassula grow like never before!
Grind it into powder and pour it into the crassula pot. It will shoot up like a slingshot
is a plant quite often found in Polish homes. According to folk beliefs, it is called the tree of happiness, and perhaps that is why Poles are so eager to keep it on their windowsills. Especially since the crassula does not have many requirements when it comes to care. All you need is proper watering, a sunny position and, of course, nutrition, and the crassula will reward you with a beautiful appearance that, over time, will begin to resemble a real tree. Once in a while, it is worth using it, which will make the plant grow like crazy and thicken with new leaves. You can prepare such a conditioner yourself at home and, importantly, it is very simple and cheap. You can make this homemade crassula fertilizer from egg shells. All you have to do is grind them in a grinder or crush them with a mortar into a fine powder and pour it into the pot, and it will shoot up like a slingshot.
Homemade crassula fertilizer from eggshells. Recipe
To prepare you need egg shells. Just boil the eggs in unsalted water, peel them and crush the shells. Sprinkle the crassula with them (1/4 teaspoon per pot is enough) and mix it with the top layer of soil. Egg shells are rich in calcium, iron, silicon, sulfur and zinc, which support the growth of plants and strengthen them, so the crassula will be resistant to diseases and will grow healthily.
Crassula care in a pot
Fortunately, it is not complicated. The best position for the crassula is a bright, sunny place. The happiness tree also needs warmth. Although it also copes well with lower temperatures, we should not expose it to temperatures lower than 10 degrees C. Crassula blooms as it grows. If we want to encourage it to bloom, we stop fertilizing the plant in autumn and limit watering.
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