Must-read for succulent beginners: you've definitely encountered these common symptoms
As a beginner succulent lover, you always run into all kinds of problems the first time you grow succulents. Even though you've done more than enough homework on care, there are always unexpected situations that leave you at a loss, able only to complain bitterly.
As a newly hooked succulent lover, you've definitely encountered this symptom in your succulents!
How many people fell into the succulent hobby because they were drawn in by those plump little bodies? Watching others raise their succulents fat and chubby, how envious! A cute thing like that, you have to have one too. So you buy a few pots yourself, and every night you dream of turning your succulents into fat little things.
But the reality is: leaf drop! Leaf drop! Leaf drop!
When succulents are in the greenhouse, they are planted in plastic shelters. After being sold, in order for the succulents to grow better, they are usually given a new home, and the pot is generally chosen according to the size of the succulent plant, usually ceramic.
Ceramic flower pots are breathable and drain water well, which helps release excess moisture and prevents succulents from becoming leggy or suffering black rot.
After succulents go through repotting, there is a period of acclimating to the pot, and here a highly debated question comes up: should succulents be watered during the pot-acclimation period?
The editor believes it is necessary, but not by grabbing a watering can and flooding them at random. Instead, when potting, mix water into the nutrient soil. Slightly moist soil will play a moisture-retaining role, so the succulent can drink water without drinking too much.
Another method is, after the succulent is planted, slowly pour a little water along the edge of the flower pot, and the water will gradually seep into the pot along with the soil.
Back to the issue of leaf drop: in fact, leaf drop is a normal phenomenon during the pot-acclimation period of succulents, just like human metabolism. During the pot-acclimation period, because all their energy is focused on rooting, succulents naturally adopt a self-protective method, discarding some unnecessary leaves to sustain their own development.
When succulent lovers encounter this situation, do not get flustered, and do not carelessly pull off the shriveled leaves. If leaves that are not completely dry are pulled off, a wound will be left on the surface. If the wound does not heal well, it will cause infection, and once infection occurs, the entire succulent will slowly rot away.
The correct approach is: wait for them to fall off slowly on their own, then pick up and clean away the fallen shriveled leaves.
Also, if there is too much moisture in the soil, it will also cause succulents to drop leaves. Some succulent lovers, wanting to quickly make their succulents fat and strong, water them vigorously as soon as they are planted, afraid the succulents will lack water, but the result is that the succulents become bald. Succulents in the pot-acclimation period do not need much water. No matter how much you water, they will not absorb it; it will only rot the roots.
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