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About Echeveria Bill Gates

Echeveria Bill Gates, also known as Echeveria Au Beauty, is a delicate and rare succulent belonging to the Crassulaceae family. The leaves of this plant are smooth and chubby, colored in a light lime green shade. When it’s thriving, the spoon-shaped leaves can turn into a light orange-pink color and curl into a heart shape with clear recessed lines in the middle. Echeveria Bill Gates tends to form clusters at the base, making it an excellent choice for succulent collectors.

How to Care for Echeveria Bill Gates

Sunlight: Echeveria Bill Gates prefers at least 6 to 8 bright filtered sunlight throughout the year. Besides scorching summer light, you can leave it outdoors to enjoy full sun. Move it indoors or to the greenhouse before winter frosts like other soft succulents.

Water: Try bottom watering this beauty instead of top watering. Because these plants are sensitive to water residue, particularly in the center of the rosette, it can lead to the development of diseases or pests. Put the potted plants in a shallow container full of water. And let the bone-dry potting soil absorb water from the bottom drainage holes. Deduce water frequency in winter even if no water is provided as it goes dormant.

Soil & Planter: Apply cacti soil with 70%~80% organic material and 20%~30% perlite or gritty rocks to these succulents. Plant it in a planter pot with at least one drainage hole at the bottom.

Temperature: Echeveria Bill Gated enjoys living in a warm and dry environment. Provide a sunshade in summer and move it indoors before the temperature drops to 40℉.

Propagation: This succulent is relatively challenging to propagate from leaves. Propagate it through side-growing cluster babies or beheading a healthy succulent is highly recommended.

What to do for new arrival succulents

1. Get the live succulent out of the shipping box and place it in an airy location without direct sunlight for two days.
2. Take it out from the nursery pot, remove any wooden or rotten roots, and clean the plants.
3. Place the clean plants in an airy location for two days and wait for the wound callus.
4. Replant the succulent with fresh cactus soil in a planter pot with drainage holes.
5. Moist the soil surface in the first two weeks and introduce sunlight to it gradually to promote root establishment.
6. Take care of it as the crucial guide.

More information

Primary color: green/lime
Secondary color: Pink/Orange
Cold hardiness: zone 10 (30℉)~zone 13(70℉)
Product format: 2″ pot
Suitability: balcony, outdoor garden, near window
Propagation: side-growing babies, leaf
Special characteristic: unique leaf shape