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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Pruning Succulents: A Checklist

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Education, Home & Garden, How To, Leisure

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2019

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Fresh from the store, succulents are so neat and compact. It’s a shame that eventually the leaves die, stems grow, and things get a little crazy. That’s when maintenance comes in. With a good pruning succulents can remain just as tidy as the day you bought them.

Learn More: Pruning Succulents: Everything You Need to Know

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everyone welcome back to the epic gardening podcast my name is Kevin and we are going to go into something that I haven't really talked too much about it's relatively simple episode pruning succents, everything you need to know. I think a lot of the times

0:15.7

we don't really think about pruning our succulents like we do with other plants, so I figured

0:20.0

I would talk about it, but before we do, we want to talk about the

0:24.2

podcast review of the day. This one's coming from Bass Me, and the title is

0:30.0

Soil pH episode. Thank you.

0:33.6

Kevin, I finally understood what pH is and how I can manage it.

0:36.9

I keep reading about this subject, but the way you approach the subject was very helpful

0:40.5

in understanding this.

0:42.0

Well, that's awesome, and really that's what I try to do here on the

0:44.6

Epic Gardening podcast. I am not a lifelong gardener so I've learned it from scratch just

0:50.4

like everyone else that's probably listening to this podcast and so I try to put

0:54.1

things in plain English and explain them as best I possibly can honestly in an effort to help myself

0:59.8

understand as well as you guys and so it's really cool to hear that.

1:03.8

And of course, if you want your podcast review red,

1:06.2

then head on over to iTunes and review the podcast.

1:08.8

Okay, we're talking about pruning succulents.

1:11.6

First of all, a couple things I really like for pruning succulents. First of all, a couple things I really like for pruning

1:14.4

succulents are some garden tweezers to kind of manipulate them if you want to

1:18.9

and also I really like for specifically for pruning succulents those fiscars soft touch

1:24.3

micro tip pruning snips I will leave a link in the podcast description or you can

1:29.4

check out the pruning succulents article to kind of get a sense of what I'm talking about there.

1:33.4

They're really, really cool. But first of all, let's get this out of the way.

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