For most succulents, pruning work is not very important, but timely, reasonable pruning can depress plant type, to promote branching, let succulents grow more robust, more beautiful plant type, while trimming down the branches can also be used for multi-meat Plant breeding again. Trim Succulents include topping, prune, strong shear, removal of stray, deflowering, repair roots.

1. Topping: By topping, to promote succulents multi-branched, multi-formed buds, more flowers, make more compact plant type, dwarfing. Topping is at the top of the stem succulents, above the leaves were cut off. Suitable for snow Ji, Bilei drum, hanging money and so on.

2. prune: also known as thinning, the main purpose is to keep the plants succulents shaped appearance neat. In general, the emphasis trimmed overlapping branches dense, irregular crossing branches, not use the leggy branches and basal sprouts and branches and twigs, branches and other pests. Commonly used in desert rose, frangipani, fairies dance, in order to carry out after flowering or after the leaves as well.

3. Strong scissors: also known as stubs, to cut off the whole plant or in the trunk base from 10 to 20 cm pruning to promote trunk base or roots of plants sprouted new buds. Commonly used in the plant is too high or extreme weakness of plant growth succulents for clouds Court, Wang sheath Africa, Cardinals coral.

4. The removal of stray: many meat plant species do not stay should be promptly cut off stray, so strong consume nutrients conducive to the formation of new flowers. For large flower horns, Sansevieria, Euphorbia milii like.

5. deflowering (including, inter bud): the plants in the growing season will be too much newborn lateral bud or small twigs removed to reduce nutrient consumption, concentrated nutrients for primary bud development. Deflowering generally stripped the side bud, so as not to affect the main bud growth. Commonly used in red roll Juan, foxtail agave, ball orchids.

6. Revised root: often carried out in succulents when transplanting or Huanpen. For long taproot or injured roots when transplanting to trim finishing. Huanpen, the old roots, root rot and too close for proper prune finishing.