Kalanchoe Flower Plant Care Tips! (Secret Ones)

Kalanchoe is a winter flowering plant. It’s very easy to grow, very hardy, and low maintenance. & In this Post, we will see some tips and tricks you can follow to get maximum flowering on Kalanchoe plants. So let’s begin.

1-The Growing Season?

The first and the most important thing for Kalanchoe plant care is its growing season. If you properly understand what kind of environment your Kalanchoe plant needs and you can successfully provide it, you will face very few problems and your plants will grow without struggling.

For the Kalanchoe plant, a cool winter environment is very ideal. It likes a temperature range of 5 to 20°C. If the temperature is within this range, you will see your Kalanchoe producing new leaves, branches, buds, and flowers.

If you live in a cold climate region where winters are extremely cold and the temperature goes much below 5°C, you shouldn’t plant during winters. Instead, you should plant it as spring starts, and they will continue growing over summer.

They will start flowering as soon as the temperature gets ideal at the end of spring or early summer.

On the other hand, if you live in a temperate or moderate climate region where winters are cool but not extremely cold, you can easily plant and grow Kalanchoe flowers. Their blooming time will be late winter and spring. Just make sure that you are following the ideal season for growing these plants.

2-Best Way To Grow Them?

Now let’s know what is the easiest way to start Kalanchoe plants. Kalanchoe is very easy to grow. It is mostly grown from cuttings. You can buy a plant from a nursery during its growing season or take a few cuttings.

Use a very sandy kind of mixture, as it’s a succulent plant. Too much moisture in the soil can rot the stems. Only a 2 to 4 inches big cutting is enough. Keep the pot in a bright but shaded spot.

Within a few weeks, they will start rooting. You may also see stems producing new leaves.

After around 4 to 5 weeks, you can transplant them into individual pots. It’s a succulent plant, and succulents don’t have many roots. These are enough to sustain new growth.

3-Succulent Soil or Not?

And the most important thing for growing healthy Kalanchoe plants is the soil media. Kalanchoe plants belong to the succulent family. They have fleshy stems and leaves that rot very easily.

This is why their soil media should be very well-draining, loose, and sandy. If you mistakenly overwater even once, the stems will start rotting, and eventually your plant will die.

For healthy Kalanchoe plants, keep the soil a little dry and never too wet. A simple succulent soil recipe is also added Here if you want to try it out.

4-The Most Ideal Spot…

One of the key things for getting a lot of flowers on Kalanchoe plants is sunlight. The proper amount of sunlight is very important. Cool winter sunlight is very helpful. A little bit of heat in the light triggers bud formation.

So if you keep your plant somewhere indoors, you may not see flowering on your plants. Ideally, you should place your Kalanchoe pot in a sunny area. Even if your plant receives 2 to 4 hours of sunlight daily, that’s more than enough.

Lack of sunlight can cause the stems to go leggy with abnormal, stunted growth. So it’s better to be careful.

5-Understand Watering!

Another thing is to learn the proper way of watering a Kalanchoe plant. Watering a succulent is not easy. You have to be extra careful. A single mistake can kill your plant.

First of all, make sure your soil media is well-draining and the drainage holes of your pot are open. You can also use some pebbles at the base of the pot to enhance drainage even more, and then water the plant only when the soil looks dry.

Never water too much. There is no fixed schedule. Maybe your soil dries out once a week or maybe once a month. Just be careful, and with time you’ll gain experience.

6-Which Fertilizer Works?

One thing that is most important to get a lot of flowers on the Kalanchoe plant is fertilizer. As soon as the temperature starts rising a little bit, this triggers the plant to produce buds.

If your soil media is fertile, you’ll see a lot of buds. After that, the plant takes nutrients from the soil to make the buds bigger and bloom them into vibrant flowers.

So for overall healthy flowering of your Kalanchoe plants, you need a good fertilizer that has all the nutrients in a balanced form. You can also use our homemade organic flower fertilizer.

It’s the best combination of nutrients in moderation. You can use this fertilizer on your Kalanchoe plants during the growing season every 2 weeks or at least once a month. A guide on this homemade fertilizer is added right here. Feel free to follow it.