How to Plant a Mini-Blue Succulent Indoors

Succulents bring nature indoors and free you from the care required for thirstier and higher-maintenance plants. The mini-blue, also known as a mini-blue chalk fingers plant, offers a hardy plant in an appealing blue-green. It has pulpy "fingers" with a chalky coating and produces white flowers. The full-size version of blue chalk fingers, Senecio vitalis, spreads easily as ground cover plant. This drought-tolerant succulent comes from South Africa and normally grows in mounded mats. The mini-blue chalk fingers plant remain more compact, making it a convenient size for a dish garden or potted plant indoors.

Pot or low bowl with drainage
Sterile coarse sand
Sterile potting mix

Instructions

- 1
  Mix one part coarse sand with one part potting mix in a pot or bowl with drainage to create a growing medium for a mini-blue succulent. Fill the container to within 1 inch of the rim.
- 2
  Make a hole deep enough for the plant's roots in the center of the soil with your hand. For example, if you're potting a mini-blue succulent from a 3-inch-deep pot, make a 3-inch-deep hole.
- 3
  Grasp the succulent gently above the soil line, and gently pull it loose from its original container. Put the root ball in the hole you made in the pot you're planting it in, and tamp the soil down lightly with your hands. This prevents air pockets around the roots.
- 4
  Water your mini-blue chalk plant right away, allowing water to run out from the base of the pot. Discard the water from the saucer. Put the plant in a sunny window, such as a southern exposure.

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