10 Fast-Growing, Easy-Care Succulent Ground Cover Plants

Welcome to Huertinga, in this video we are going to show succulents that meet my criteria in three characteristics, they are coverings, fast growth and easy care. And we are also going to give several tips so that they grow that way, that is, in a covering way. We start with the Graptopetalum Mendozae, which as you can see to the mother currently we have it in a fruit drawer that we turn it into a pot, which we explain in a video that we have published on the channel. And as you can see, it has almost completely filled that drawer and so that you have a good reference of the size it has, here I show you a baby that we have located in a pot number 10. And for it to grow in this way, that is, in a compact and well covering way, it is important to give it the care it needs, which for its orientation I leave the links to the videos where we talk about its care, both this succulent and the others that we are going to show. But there is something that is very important in the Graptopetalum Mendozae, which is to give it the direct solar lighting necessary for it to grow in this way, that is, in a very compact way and its reproduction is super simple, both by stem stem and by leaves that even naturally they are going to come off and I recommend that you simply leave them in the pot and it will alone take out the bud and the root. And in this way it will grow over time, another specimen that will also cover like these that we have located in garden pots that we transplanted a little while ago And we have many more that now I am going to show you how it is located in a large pot that I put some rosettes and well, currently it has covered practically everything. What you see there is pine reed by the giant tree that the neighbor has, which you will see that almost all my succulents are covered by that reed, there is little left, well I am taking them out. It is very important that if you see that the succulents have a very green tone and begin to stretch, it is because it is etiolated and it lacks a greater direct solar exposure, which means that it does not remain so compact and it will begin to lose many leaves alone and it will be very weak, so be very attentive to those indicators, the rosette always has to stay with all its leaves very compact. And in this pot we put it next to the Graptosedum Francesco Baldi, which in our experience are succulents that do super well because they have very similar care requirements, which is essential to take into account when making a composition. And so that you can see the size of the pot, well here I am holding it with one hand, which is quite heavy, so that you can see how big they are. Another succulent of very fast and very covering growth is the Cedum Dacifilum Major, also known as Cedum of Blue Tears, which as you can see has almost completely covered the basin pot to which we transplanted, I think it was also live, and see the size it has today, which is practically larger than my hand, and soon we will also have to transplant it back to a larger pot, since those stems that end up hanging in my experience and over time tend to weaken because they seek to reach the ground and root, but they can also be cut and reproduced, and also in my experience something similar happens with the Cedum Anglicum, also known as English Vermicularia, but in my experience at least its growth is not as fast as the Cedum Dacifilum Major, which I clarify that does not mean that it grows slowly, but ultimately not as fast as the other Cedum, but as you can see, it has also almost completely covered the basin pot in which it is located, so it is another of which in future live broadcasts or videos you will see how we transplant. We continue with the Crassula Pellucidas or Marginalis species, also known as Crassula Corazon, which is a succulent that is also very fast growing, it is very covering and has the particularity that the stems, once they no longer have a surface to cover, tend to hang, but in my opinion it is not a succulent that is genetically prepared to hang, since as you can see, those stems that hang develop many aerial roots, which is an indicator that it wants to continue expanding and if that reaches the ground or substrate it will manage to root and will continue its covering growth, which I do not want to say that it cannot hang, that in fact ours is giant and is hanging practically most of its stems, but the ideal in reality in my experience is to give it space, either through a larger pot or making a pod and reproducing the sprouts or passing it to the ground, but in a place with good direct sunlight. Stop talking Huertinga, I want to throw myself like the other time in the other video and look at Shakira, this heart is for you, you like it, you already know where to come and look for it, I want to clarify that no succulents suffered any damage in this professional act that I did. And I take this opportunity to clarify that in this video we do not include hanging succulents because they are not genetically prepared to cover land surfaces, but precisely to hang, which is easily noticeable because unlike what happened with the Crassula Corazon, all these stems that hang, which are from the Sedum Morganianum, which is further to the left, Sedum Burrito in the middle and from this Curio Rowleyanus, as you will see, do not develop aerial roots that indicate that they want to root. We continue with the Aptenia Cordifolia, which is a succulent that has a very fast growth and very covering, that's why I have it located in a pot to be able to control that growth a little . And here I am showing a Marchita flower that has seeds inside. And in my experience with this succulent and how we share in its video of individual care, when you have it with a greater direct sun exposure, it will take a while for its growth to cover, while when it is more in the shade, it will expand faster and you have to be very careful with it because in this covering development it can cover other smaller plants or even larger ones because their stems will develop like this one that I have on the ground and when it covers other plants, well, it will remove all the sunlight and you can even get to lose those plants. As a little is happening to me with this one that I have on the ground and there were other succulents that it is covering, that's why I have to prune it, which is something that one has to take into account when they have it on the ground because it expands very fast. And this is also an Aptenia Cordifolia but variegated, which as it usually happens with variegations has a slower growth, which also as you can see after the last flowering has left us a lot of Marchita flowers that have seeds inside and having a slower growth is much easier to control than the Aptenia Cordifolia not variegated so you will not have so many problems with it. And I would also like to mention the Graptosedum Francesco Baldi, which although it is not a technically covering succulent, it is very easy to make it in practice end up covering large surfaces because it has a very fast growth and it is very easy to reproduce both by stem sprouts and also by leaf. And although as it becomes an adult specimen, the stems are going to lengthen with the rosette in the apex, new stems and rosettes are also going to develop at the base of the same ones and thus it will cover large surfaces such as these that we have located in nursery where one can place the different rooted shoots or the leaves that have come out and very easily the sprout and the root and over time as you can see they will cover practically the entire pot and thus with them you can go just covering large surfaces being on the other hand a succulent that as we explained in its video of individual care , the tonality varies a lot and this has in large part to do with the number of hours of direct sun that even a change of location of the pot and that it has one more hour or one hour less will vary as you can see many of its tones although there are other factors that also influence how cold it is and look at the number of pots that I have with the Graptosedum Francesco Baldi, there is little left, it covers all of them, that is why it is a succulent that I also recommend when one looks for plants that cover large parts of the ground or of the pot, being also its very easy care because it is a very resistant succulent and something very similar is what happens with the Graptosedum bronze or also called Graptosedum veragine that also has a similar growth as it becomes adult to develop long stems where the rosette will grow at the apex and at the base new stems with new rosettes but exactly the same thing happens a succulent of very fast growth and very easy reproduction that look at how these gardeners are completely covered with good little children that were reproducing per leaf in reality due to a wind storm that we had in the winter of the year I think it was 2020 that threw it into the pot, it gave birth to a lot of leaves that in turn come off very easily and practically all of them have reproduced as they look right here I have a leaf that alone took out the bud and the root because it is one of the succulents that I consider the easiest reproduction per leaf and thus large surfaces can be covered in a simple way, being interesting to mention that in my experience when it receives a lot of direct sun it becomes a more reddish tone and as it has less direct sun a more brown tone but little sun it gets very green and there is a risk of thiolation and a special mention I have to make of the Carpobrotus edulis also known as cat's nail which is a super resistant succulent and which is also very covering in fact in some countries such as Spain an invasive exotic species has been declared since it is too much what it covers and has the particularity that unlike most of the rest of the succulents it tolerates sodium so it usually grows also in sand banks and it is very common to find it in coastal areas both in Argentina, Uruguay, Spain, among other countries and that is why I also have it contained in a pot since if not it would begin to expand everywhere and finally another succulent that I consider very interesting when one looks for one that is covering of rapid growth and easy care is the Echeveria prolifica since due to its particular way of growth it will cover large surfaces over time because of each of the rosettes that it develops through stolons it will generate more children and thus it will expand as you can see in all these pots that are full of those rosettes that is also very easy to reproduce both by stem cutting and by leaf that comes off being another succulent that it is important to give it the direct solar radiation necessary because if it does not beat us very fast and so we reached the end of the video that I hope you liked it, I remind you that everything that has to do with the care of each of the succulents that we have just mentioned is in other videos that I am going to leave the links in the description of this video so as always they are grateful for some very good likes and if they are not subscribed do not forget to subscribe and with nichu as it is getting quite cold we are going to go inside see you in the next video bye