How to care for shriveled succulents? Pay attention to these easily overlooked care details

Small details easily overlooked in cultivation: the worse the roots, the drier they should be kept. (Thanks to Feng Jun for the material.)

Today I want to talk about my questions about growing roots, which should also be the first question everyone encounters after falling into the hobby. Have you ever had this experience: you buy a plant and bring it home, especially a small one, and after being shipped by courier it looks dry and miserable, so you want to give it a good long drink right away.

But some of them have weak roots, or even no roots at all, and after watering a few times, thinking they should recover quickly, they instead easily turn to mush, or get moldy.

It is a great pity. What I want to say is: actually the root's job is to find water. Besides absorbing water, I want to emphasize the word "find."

A plant has very weak roots and some leaves. Pouring a lot of water on it, actually, because it has few roots, or even no roots, its will is strong but its power is insufficient, and it cannot absorb much water.

And the water all stays in the soil, which is the real danger, because the roots instead cannot breathe, and sometimes the situation worsens and weak roots become no roots.

At this time, I actually think that if you provide it with a relatively dry environment, it will feel a bit dry, and then it will muster its strength to look for water: grow roots.

So you should increase the watering interval. Do not water as soon as it is dry, as that will spoil the roots and make them lazy.

Let it first look for water and then find water. The new roots absorb water, and the new roots are very active.

As you can see, this way the roots grow well, the water is absorbed, the leaves plump up, and the plant is safe.

I often use this trick on plants that look like they will not die of exhaustion in a short time: for example, healthy beheaded offsets, medium-sized seedlings with weak roots, larger leaf-cutting leaves for leaf propagation, and so on. However, this trick should only be used on succulents with "economic strength." So-called economic strength actually means succulents that look like they will not die without water in a short time. If it is a very small booger-sized seedling with very weak roots and looks like it is barely hanging on, then by no means should you keep it dry for a long time, or it may just dry up completely.