Surreal Succulents

Echeveria 'Hercules'

Name: Echeveria 'Hercules'
Brand: Surreal Succulents
SKU: D604-Hercules
Price: 11.0 GBP
Availability: InStock

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Echeveria 'Hercules' quick care tips

Watering

Echeveria 'Hercules' is a drought-tolerant succulent variety, so watering around once per week in the peak growing season is advised. Ensure the soil dries between waterings. It is also advised to completely stop watering when conditions are frosty, keeping the plant dry for several months at a time.

Feeding

Echeveria 'Hercules' likes to be fed to bring out its best forms and colours. We recommend feeding with a liquid seaweed feed every 2 weeks in the main growing season from April to September.

Ideal soil

Echeveria 'Hercules' needs free draining soil to thrive. We recommend a mixture of 1/3 John Innes no.2, 1/3 perlite and 1/3 coconut coir. The soil mix we offer here is similar in composition to this. Adding extra grit may be useful to add even more drainage for these desert-dwellers.

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General Care Advice
Winter Care Advice

Echeveria 'Hercules'

A beautiful succulent that starts a sky blue in colour. In strong light the leaves take on a striking purple colouring that becomes darker at the leaf margins. It flowers in the spring with pink and yellow bell-shaped buds.

Plant in an unheated conservatory, bright windowsill or greenhouse for best results of colour.

A hybrid of unknown origin.

Difficulty

Beginner

Growth Form

Singular rosette

Growth Rate

Moderate

Minimum Temperature

-2°C

Maximum Size

20 cm x 20 cm