How should succulents with their own natural white powder be cared for?

Succulents with thick powder, like Saussurea involucrata (snow lotus), Mexican Giant, and the genus Dudleya, etc......

Their powder adheres rather weakly, and when they encounter wind or watering, the powder can be knocked off.

Succulents with thin powder, like Sedum pachyphyllum 'Yachiyo', Graptopetalum 'Francesco Baldi', etc......

Their powder adheres much more strongly compared to thick-powder succulents, and is relatively less likely to fall off.

Those succulents whose powder is neither thick nor thin, like Echeveria runyonii 'Topsy Turvy', Echeveria glauca, and Pachyveria 'Blue Bird', etc......

They are also not too afraid of watering, but touching them with your hand will definitely leave fingerprints.

We are not actually doing scientific research, and there is no need to care particularly about why they grow powder, because understanding this would probably not be thoroughly figured out any time soon.

Since they grow powder, we should consider how to protect this powder.

Nature is very magical; since it has grown, it proves that this powder serves a certain protective function for it.

This white powder can help succulents resist part of UV radiation, and can also effectively help succulents with moisture loss, avoid sunburn, and even play a "whitening" role.

This powder can also prevent rot and bacterial infection caused by water accumulating at the growth point, because when water droplets slide across the leaf surface they do not easily stay, rolling off "as a whole," but manual touching or heavy rain leaves no way to save their lives!

If the powder falls off, these succulents are more prone to sunburn and their leaves will also become soft due to water loss.

So, we should try our best not to damage it deliberately.

So how exactly should these succulents with their own natural white powder be cared for?

1. First, you absolutely must not deliberately touch off their white powder with your hands!

Do not think this is fun, or want to see whether they will regenerate it.

Some succulents will regenerate white powder, but some will not regenerate it.

2. When planting, if you have a tool (long curved-tip tweezers), use the tool to grip the succulent's roots for planting;

When there is no tool, use your fingers to gently support the outermost leaves, and try as much as possible to touch the outermost leaves with your hands; even if the powder falls off, there is no need to be afraid, because succulents all undergo metabolism, and when the nutrients of the outermost leaves are consumed and they fall off, the whole succulent will present a very perfect state.

3. When watering, avoid the leaves.

4. For succulents with powder, the thicker the powder, the more sun-tolerant they are; the stronger the sunlight, the thicker the powder.

Those powdered succulents that have grown leggy basically all have very thin powder.

5. If there is water on the leaves, do not wipe it with your hands or anything else; blow it off with your mouth or an air blower.

·END·

"Succulent Botany"

The most academic WeChat public account in the succulent field

Cute succulent news | Expensive succulent photos | Succulent care tutorials | Disease research | Leaf propagation exploration