If your Clivia's leaves are not shiny, applying cooking oil is not advisable; do this instead for thick, glossy leaves

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A fellow gardening enthusiast asked me: if a Clivia's leaves are not shiny, can you apply cooking oil to them? Never wipe a Clivia's leaves with cooking oil. First of all, plant leaves carry out photosynthesis. So-called photosynthesis is just like human breathing. If you smear cooking oil on a Clivia's leaves, the cooking oil will not dry on the leaves and will cling to them long-term; the leaves cannot breathe, and this will cause the entire Clivia to die.

Most merchants on the market now, especially for foliage plants, will spray leaves with things like leaf shine. The leaves look glossy and shiny and very appealing. After keeping them for a while, the plant will die, but this is not advisable and is bad for plants. Using cooking oil to smear on leaves is the same principle as spraying leaf shine; you must never use it.

Quite apart from anything else, after you apply it, once dust carried by indoor air circulation all lands on the leaves, it will cling to the leaves and attract dust especially badly. Everyone should know this.

If you want a Clivia's leaves to be glossy, you can give it fertilizer. Regularly use fertilizer fermented from leguminous plants. After the roots absorb it, its leaves will naturally become glossy; artificially making them shinier is completely pointless.

If dust clings to a Clivia's leaves, you can wipe it clean with clean water. Clean water will not cling to the leaves long-term. Air circulation will carry the moisture away. It keeps the leaves tidy and does no harm to the Clivia's leaves. This is the best way. Cooking oil, leaf shine and the like are all crooked tricks; if you want long-term gloss and also want it fast, you might as well buy a fake one. It will be glossy for a long time.

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