Blue Rose Echeveria or Echeveria Imbricata, is a slow-growing type of echeveria that could spread up to 2-4 ft. wide when grown in an ideal condition.
This succulent’s main feature is its thin flat leaves closely clasped together that form the plant’s distinctive rosette pattern. Blue Rose Echeveria produces clusters of rosettes around it as it gets older.
The leaves of the Blue Rose Echeveria are usually blue-green, and it has a pointed apex with a tinge of pink color on its margins that appears to be a lot darker when it receives adequate sunlight.
This succulent blooms in spring and early summer, you could expect to see red and yellow flowers that cluster around the stalk that shoots out from the rosette.
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Blue Rose Echeveria Care Guide
Blue Rose Echeveria is one of the hardiest among the echeveria plant. However, applying the proper care to this succulent is also needed to keep it alive and help it reach its full potential.
Below are some tips on how to take care of your Blue Rose Echeveria to help it reach its maximum potential.
Watering Technique
Blue Rose Echeveria is proven to be drought-tolerant. There is water stored inside its roots, and its fleshy leaves help withstand long periods without water. When watering this succulent, the best method to use is the “soak and dry” method, water when the soil’s surface is dry before giving water again.
Your Blue Rose Echeveria’s watering needs are less than other succulent, and there is also no fixed watering schedule for this succulent. However, it is essential to base on how often or less your watering is to the weather and temperature around your succulent.
During summer, water your plant regularly at least once or twice a week would do as long as you make sure that the soil is not soggy from watering; wet soil means the plant is receiving too much water, this may cause some problems to your Blue Rose Echeveria. During winter and spring, lessen your waterings. Once or twice a month is sufficient.
If your succulent is in an area where it receives water from the rain, make sure to move it or remove the container’s excess water to avoid drowning your plant.
Lighting Condition
The Blue Rose Echeveria is not picky, it could be grown both indoor and outdoor, but it will thrive best when placed in an area that will allow it to receive enough sunlight.
Blue Rose Echeveria doesn’t need much attention, primarily if it is grown outdoor. There are only a few requirements you need to follow.
First, you must plant it in an area where it will receive enough sunlight, at least 5-6 hours of sun exposure a day. Morning sun is ideal, but full exposure to the afternoon sun could burn them. But if your succulent thrives to extreme conditions, afternoon sun exposure wouldn’t be much of a problem.
Growing your Blue Rose Echeveria indoor is also possible as long it receives enough filtered sunlight. Indoor growing is a bit more challenging than outdoor growing. Choosing the right spot to place this succulent is your best resort. It is best to put them in a western-facing or southern-facing window to help them receive filtered sunlight.
Temperature
Blue Rose Echeveria is one of the hardiest succulents. It prefers a summer temperature of at least 60-70 degrees Fahrenheit and could survive low-temperature durations, as low as 20 degrees Fahrenheit.
Soil
Like most succulents, Blue Rose Echeveria prefers sandy soil that offers enough drainage. Regular potting soil might not provide enough drainage that your succulent needs may cause some problems with the succulent roots.
Blue Rose Echeveria could tolerate slightly alkaline soil, and it will also do well in a well-drained succulent mix with a pH level of around 60 or slightly acidic soil.
The perfect substrate for your Blue Rose Echeveria must be loose and aerated.
Fertilizer
Blue Rose Echeveria could live without fertilizers. However, you could still use one if you want to boost your succulent’s growth. Feeding your plant could be a little tricky because the fertilizer could cause harm if you overuse it. It is best to use a 20-20-20 fertilizer for mature Blue Rose Echeveria and some fertilizer with less nitrogen for your baby succulent.
There’s liquid fertilizer designed for both cacti and succulents; consider using them for your Blue Rose Echeveria. Make sure to follow the suggested dosage.
Pruning the Blue Rose Echeveria
It is normal to see dying leaves at the bottom of your succulent; carefully remove them to prevent attracting pest and fungal diseases.
Pest and disease in Blue Rose Echeveria
Blue Rose Echeveria is not prone to serious pest problems. However, common pests such as Aphids and Mealybugs could target your succulent.
Aphids are sap-sucking insects that use their sucking mouthparts to feed on the succulent’s sap, and this pest secretes honeydews that could attract other pests such as ants. If left untreated, it might cause some severe problems to your succulent.
You can remove this pest with soapy water. Mix a few drops of dishwashing soap with water, and use this milk mixture to wipe the aphids off of your succulent. You can also use a spray bottle. Do this a few times a week until you achieve the best result.
If you see some white fuzzy mess around your Blue Rose Echeveria, that’s not dirt; they are pests called Mealybugs. These stubborn pests could cause severe problems to your succulent. They suck the juice from the leaves of the host plant and secretes honeydew that also attracts ants. If untreated, they could also affect the flowers of your Blue Rose Echeveria.
You can remove Mealybugs with a steady stream of water, but this is only effective for light infestation. Use a different method for a much larger infestation. A spray bottle with a mixture of water and dishwashing would be useful. Carefully spray it on the affected area, and repeat a few times a week.
Repotting the Blue Rose Echeveria
Frequent repotting is not advisable for this succulent. However, it is a must to repot your succulent after buying it.
In repotting your Blue Rose Echeveria, you will need well-draining soil, and do it during the warm season or early spring. The process of repotting this succulent is easy:
- Make sure that the soil mix is dry before you pull it off its current container.
- After pulling it off, you need to gently remove the old soil from its roots and carefully remove the rotted roots, and you could treat the cuts with a fungicide to avoid possible fungal disease.
- Place your succulent on its new container and wait for the soil to dry for a few days before watering it.
Toxicity
Blue Rose Echeveria is a non-toxic succulent for both pets and humans.
How to Propagate your Blue Rose Echeveria
Growing your succulent collection is easy when you know how to propagate them properly. Blue Rose Echeveria can reproduce through its offsets, leaves, and stem. Listed below are tips on how to multiply your Blue Rose Echeveria through these methods correctly.
See also our topics to propagate the succulent for Topsy Turvy Echeveria, Black Prince Echeveria, Raindrops Echeveria.
Through offsets
Blue Rose Echeveria naturally produces a lot of offsets as it matures. You would see these offsets hugging the mother plant, you might want to keep them like that, but you could also propagate using these offsets.
Propagating through offsets is the easiest way to grow your Blue Rose Echeveria collection. Using this method, you will need a mature Blue Rose Echeveria with pups and a clean knife or scissor to separate the offset from the main plant.
You can also use your hand, carefully pull the baby plant away from the mother plant and remove the soil that comes with it. You can plant it directly to a well-draining soil mix as long as you make sure there is enough moisture to hold the plant. However, it is best if you wait for a few days until the pup has callous before planting it in its new container.
Your newly potted plant will need more water than the mature ones, but make sure not to water excessively.
When propagating through this method, you will need to choose the offset carefully you will pull off from the mother plant. A newly sprout offset might not survive the environment away from the main plant, so choose a healthy and bigger one; this will have a higher chance of survival.
Through Leaves
Another common way to propagate your Blue Rose Echeveria is through leaf cuttings:
- You will need to look for a healthy leaf, preferably those located at the bottom part of your succulent; try not to pull off leaves from the middle part of your succulent to avoid having a bald-looking echeveria.
- Cut the leaf off from the stem using a clean knife, but it is easier to use your hand, gently pull off the leaf in a twisting motion. Make sure to include the meristem tissue to secure a better survival rate for the leaf.
- Leave the leaf on a paper towel to let its end dry or callous.
When ready, the end of the leaf on the potting mix or well-draining soil you prepared.
Place the leaves in an area where they can receive indirect sunlight and carefully mist or water the soil a few times a week. You will then see roots and some baby plants growing around the leaf. Once the baby plant starts to grow, you can carefully remove the original leaf.
Through Stem Cutting
You might notice your Blue Rose Echeveria becoming too leggy or long, and this happens when your succulent is not receiving enough sunlight. It becomes etiolated and starts to lose its beautiful rosette form. Cutting its head or the top rosette is the best thing to do.
In cutting the top rosette of the Blue Rose, you will need a sharp and sterile knife. Here are the steps that you should follow:
- You need to remove the dead leave at the bottom of your rosette before cutting. When cutting, make sure that you leave a stem on the bottom of your rosette, at least an inch or two, to help the plant steady and have room for new roots to grow.
- After cutting, set it aside for days in an area away from direct sunlight until the stem’s end is dry and has callous.
- Plant it in a suitable potting mix that you have prepared and water or mist the soil mix at least once a week.
You can also leave the stump planted, or you can replant it on different soil. Around 4-6 weeks, you will see new baby blue rose echeveria growing around the stump.
Blue Rose Echeveria is one of the easiest succulents to handle; growing one doesn’t require much attention. It is also known as one of the echeverias with the perfect rosette, and its blue-green, saucer-shaped rosette makes it stand out among other echeverias.
