Stop Treating Your Succulents Like It's Still Summer

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Your succulents did fine all summer on the same routine. The trouble starts when the days get shorter and the routine doesn't change.

Winter isn't one season for a succulent collection. An echeveria slows right down and rests, while an aeonium on the same sill wakes up and starts growing. So one rule for every pot, whether that's "water less" or "keep going as before", is wrong for one of them.

This video walks through what winter actually changes: why the same pour of water now sits in the pot, how to tell a resting plant from a growing one, and why lifting the pot beats the calendar. Then the light that moves away from your shelf, the cold glass at night and the curtain that makes it worse, the heating vent that dries one side of a plant, and why feeding and repotting should wait. Last, what to check before a plant comes in from outside for the winter.

Stay to the end for the whole winter routine in one place.

0:00 Same plant, same routine, new season
0:21 Watering on the summer schedule
0:40 Why the same pour now lingers
1:13 The small-splash compromise
1:28 Soft bottom leaves, and the lift test
1:57 Two plants, two calendars
2:35 What a working winter grower looks like
3:04 Why "less water for all" starves the aeonium
3:18 Separate the growers from the resters
3:32 The shelf that went dark
3:51 Stretching, and what not to do about it
4:21 Move it to the brightest glass
4:44 Cold glass and the glassy-leaf scare
5:22 The curtain trap
5:34 Slide the pots back at night
5:47 The heating vent: a one-sided drought
6:15 Why misting doesn't help
6:29 The one pot that needs water sooner
6:45 Feeding and repotting a resting plant
7:22 Wait for spring
7:33 Bringing plants in for winter
7:57 Where mealybugs hide
8:13 Check every plant, then keep it apart
8:24 Winter, in one habit
9:08 Lift the pot, water the grower

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