There is a classic saying in the succulent world: "Once you enter the meat pit, your wallet is a passerby!" Although it is a joke, but also reflects the raising of succulents is really a "costly" hobby!
Not to mention pots, nutrient soil, paving stones, fertilizers and pharmaceuticals to spend money, the key is tens of thousands of varieties of succulents, no varieties would like to have, then its temptation has become a bottomless pit. And with the emergence of clusters, embellishments, cliff stakes, out of the brocade, rare and other higher level succulent varieties, the road to raising succulents has indeed made the pit into the people, can not stop! So there will be people willing to spend hundreds of thousands just to buy pots of succulent phenomenon is not surprising.
Hobby needs theory and practice to support, blind like usually difficult to long:
Daily life, a variety of preferences are no shortage of avid followers, such as: travel, photography, musical instruments, square dance enthusiasts, etc., they will be in order to their own obsessive preference for continuous learning, and for which to pay money and time. Gardening enthusiasts are the same, in addition to succulent control, there are many orchid control, moon season control, bonsai control, etc., in addition to spending time and energy, but also the same need to invest a certain amount of money. But the only difference is: gardening in the face of living plants, and not you will buy it back it can naturally bloom, results and endless, it requires a certain amount of theoretical knowledge and practical experience to support, or hundreds of thousands of potted plants into the hands of only a "flash in the pan".
Spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy a succulent pile, rather than learning some succulent knowledge, their own hand raised more real:
Succulents have been popular around the world for a long time, coupled with the continuous development of network platforms, access to information and knowledge of more and more ways to get it, it is also fading away the freshness, the overall price is trending downward.
Coupled with the characteristics of succulents can be branch insertion, leaf insertion reproduction, so just a few years on the market saturation, so now hundreds of thousands of old pile, not only is it difficult to appear in the future appreciation of space, in turn, there is a possibility of value shrinkage.
The seemingly high-end succulent old pile like Kam, embellishment, etc. Some of them are also against the rules of nature to use a variety of potions to catalyze the birth of mutant succulents, which are unstable and have poorer resistance than normal succulents, and novices should be cautious to start!
In my opinion: rational raising succulent, can be more long! Short-term favorite can only be considered hot-headed, and a long time of accumulation is called hobby. If you really like the old pile of succulent, it would be better to get a few normal seedlings and raise them with one hand for a greater sense of accomplishment!