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A succulent plant for your home is a wonderful opportunity to bring nature home and bring a green touch to the minimalist urban decor. But how to do it yourself, or DIY if you prefer and if you want to be modern, to tame this noble representative of nature without removing the pleasure of living worthily?
The beautiful and majestic succulent both in nature and at home
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Succulents, and more particularly succulents, which are one of their most beautiful species, are fleshy plants with the capacity to store water in their leaves, hence their name, which are adapted to survive in arid environments¹. With its leathery or fibrous leaves, with succulent leaves arranged in a rosette, the succulent plant is a dwarf plant which is nevertheless very solid, strong, perennial and resistant.
Three succulents in modern vases style glass candle holder
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In addition, it is very beautiful and although its color is not bright and warm, it would fit better in a minimalist modern urban decor. The fact of holding all these qualities is the main reason for the man, knowingly acting, daring to remove this creature from its natural environment, offer it an environment that it has never expected and welcome in his home while alienating him from his own habitat forever.
Three different succulents dipped in very design vases
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Before the man decided to bring the landless plant to his house and ventured to endure the suffering, he carefully studied how to offer the succulent plant a completely different life in the city without as much expose him to any risk whatsoever.
Hydroponics: DIY or how to do? Above all, we must uproot the plant
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The man discovered hydroponics and developed hydroponics for his own pleasure with the idea in mind that succulents, and succulents among others, should embrace the best of all worlds for him after being uprooted by his hand to serve a cause that is his.
After washing the roots, the plant is ready for hydroponics
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By asserting himself as a powerful master who lifts life from before, man also has the responsibility to make his life endure. And this not just any way but by ensuring a propitious atmosphere at least as regards the decor.
The succulent plant in beauty at home thanks to hydroponics
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Before aesthetics there is still life that must be assured. So, instead of looking immediately at diverse and varied ideas about aesthetics, let’s not forget that life is beautiful in itself. For this reason, before focusing on container design,
Container idea suitable for fat plants without soil
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will be very briefly presented hydroponics. Hydroponics is a method especially adapted to the succulents which allows to cultivate them in water, without soil, but without forgetting the use of mineral elements in the hydroponic nutritive solution that one adds to it from time to time.
Cactus floating in water and hydroponic nutrient solution
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How to cultivate them without land? The steps for DIY are the following: Know first that the plants, once soaked in water, will grow roots different from those they would have grown if planted in the soil.
Hydroponic cultivation of succulent plants after cleaning their roots
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Then you need to find the ideal design, modern, fashionable container to best meet the expectations you may have considering your unique and demanding interior. Set aside some small instruments that will allow you to carefully clean the soil stuck to the roots.
DIY or how to make an aluminum plate to hold the plant without soil
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The succulent plant will not be soaked in water as we usually do with bouquets of flowers after buying them. This plant without soil will not even touch the water. Only her new roots will grow in the water. For that, you need aluminum
DIY or how to make a wafer that will hold the plant above the water
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and scissors that can cut it to the desired shape with reference to the selected container. Then, you will need a drill (be careful! Women too fragile to abstain) with which you will drill a hole in the plate
DIY with a drill that will make a hole in the aluminum plate
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which will allow to pass the roots of the plant and keep the plant even far from the water. It is important to remember that roots alone have contact with water. Take again the scissors that will help you make a notch, a slot if you prefer, starting from the hole towards any side of the plate, in this case rectangular.
DIY or how to make a crack in the aluminum wafer
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Then, fold the aluminum plate upwards.
Cut a slit in an aluminum plate to slide the fat plant
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Finally, carefully slide the plant into the slot. It may seem a little frustrating to see the succulent plant so chained but thanks to this piece the plant will not be drowned in the water. You should also pay attention to the amount of water and hydroponic nutrient solution in which you soak the roots.
The succulent plant slipped into the aluminum pad ready to be put in the container
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There are many other ways to do everything like other containers to accommodate succulents that arouse interest. Instead of using any metal, you will be able to put pebbles or pebbles in glass containers and just as well achieve the desired effect.
New idea design: pebbles or pebbles in a container for laying the plants
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Do not forget to take care of the plant because it is a creature just as beautiful as any other creature on earth. You made him change the scenery, it’s up to you then to do your best to create another space as pleasant as possible so that it really pleases.
A variety of succulents: a beautiful hydroponic kebab
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1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succulent_plant
² http://www.ehow.com
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