Succulent pest control and sterilization: rubbing alcohol is a great helper

Your succulent has pests! Succulents can get pests too? What should you do when your succulent has pests? In fact, as long as it is a plant, it will be damaged by pests and diseases. Today we will discuss solutions for pests on succulents.

Reasons succulents get pests

1) Foreign plants were not cleaned thoroughly.

Because everyone's growing methods and growing environments are different, you cannot guarantee that your own plants are 100{bf} pest-free, let alone foreign plants. (If you receive goods that have turned to mush or have black rot, please directly discuss a return or compensation; generally they will not survive.) Having pests is not scary; the key is cleaning. It is strongly recommended to wash plants that come with soil, and after the plants have dried in the shade, spray them as needed with the "pest-control wonder (alcohol)."

2) High humidity

The author is in the free-shipping region of Greater China. This region has a magical climatic phenomenon, the "plum rain season." Most succulent black rot happens at this time, and at the same time, this reason may have led to the appearance of a certain scale of sooty mold.

3) Unknown

This situation is a case of "if heaven wants you to die, you have no choice but to die"~

Handling pests on succulents

Here comes the key point. The editor here strongly recommends the "pest-control wonder" --alcohol, remember it is the kind with a concentration of 70-75{bf}rubbing alcohol~rubbing alcohol~rubbing alcohol, important things said three times. (Pure alcohol cannot be used directly on succulents; it will burn them.)

The functions of alcohol:

1. Killing pests

Because the editor buried small green pills in the soil, although they are grown outdoors, overall the pest damage is not very severe. But the small green pills cannot deal with mealybugs.

But with alcohol there is nothing to fear. If you see mealybugs on a plant, spray once, and the bugs immediately turn from white to pale orange, killed in seconds. And even if you spray a lot, you do not need to worry about inhaling any toxic or harmful substances; pregnant mothers should probably be able to use it too.

2. Sterilizing

There is no mystery about this; alcohol is inherently sterilizing.

For black rot and similar issues, spray once on the wound after surgery;

For sooty mold, because it is a fungal disease, you can also spray once;

For sunburn, to prevent wound mold, you can spray once;

After washing roots, whether there is a reason or not, you can also spray once;