The culture of agaves as potted plants
Most of them Agave species has in this country the care as a container plant in the pot naturalized. So the sun-hungry plants can always be placed in the most sunny place possible between spring and autumn and easily brought into the house in winter. So that the plants can cope with the limited daylight in the house in winter, you should not use them in winter quarters fertilize and water very sparingly.
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Suitable winter quarters for agaves
If your non-frost-hardy agaves are to survive the winter as unscathed as possible, temperatures between 4 and 14 degrees Celsius should prevail in the winter quarters. Therefore, the following rooms are usually suitable as a winter location for the agave:
- Basement rooms
- Stairwells
- Attics
- unheated winter gardens
Above all, it is important that enough daylight can reach the agave leaves even in winter.
Hibernate hardy agaves outdoors
Certain types of agave are also suitable for overwintered outdoors to become. So that there is no signs of putrefaction due to increased under a protective layer of coniferous branches When humidity levels come, the plants should be covered with a layer of coarse-grained gravel above the planting substrate be surrounded.
Tips
Agaves are basically adapted to locations in blazing sun, but they are quite sensitive to extreme contrasts in the supply of light and temperature. You should therefore not immediately expose the specimens of this plant family that are cultivated in the tub and wintered in the house to full sunlight in spring. The plants will thank you when you leave their winter quarters and leave them in for a few days Penumbra and then to the final location on a rather cloudy day in the garden rearrange.