This is the accurate way to buy an old pile.

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Almost every day, flower friends come to ask the question about the root of the old pile. It seems that those old piles with strong and long poles are really very attractive to everyone. But why is the old pile always associated with the hair root? We have to say that this is a strange phenomenon. The old pile of meat has grown for many years, and it is supposed to have a well-developed and strong root system, so why do we still need to take root? This should start from the source of the old pile.

First of all, some of the old piles we see are not old piles, they are just a stout branch on the real old pile. According to the principle of meat beheading, the position of beheading is best arranged in the middle of the leaves, that is to say, after beheading, when there are a small number of healthy leaves on the bottom branch, the chopped head is most likely to take root and survive.

So why do succulent farms in South Korea cut long branches? It seems puzzling, isn't it? farmers should not lack this common sense. Yes, of course, they know that the bottom of a branch is not easy to take root. They cut an extra section of branch to you for two reasons: first, stout branches contain a lot of nutrients, so that the meat does not wither easily and can be preserved for a long time and keep fresh. Second, maybe you don't buy meat to feed them, but just decorate your room, so long poles will make it easier for you to insert a vase or fix it somewhere.

However, you must say that I paid a lot of money for that long pole, and if the first thing I bought was to cut down the lotus pedestal at the top, my money would have been wasted.

Well, in that case, let me talk about a way to take root safely without cutting off the pole.

First, find a deep container deep enough to bury the whole pole. Then plant the whole stalk into the container with vermiculite (you can mix with a certain amount of rooting powder), exposing only the rosette part of the meat. If there are more than one head on the branch, try to bury more branches in vermiculite.

Water it and keep the vermiculite wet for the coming month. A small amount of carbendazim can be added to the water to control fungal reproduction, so you don't have to worry about decay. Give sufficient astigmatism to the meat during the rooting period. If there is not enough astigmatism, then the window to bask in the sun, shade is not conducive to root.

Dig up the meat in a month. I believe that at this time, the part near the rosette must have taken root successfully, and maybe the whisker root will also grow in the middle and upper part of the pole. But that's not what you want. You want the bottom of the pole to take root, right?

We replant the meat in vermiculite, this time it can be a little shallower, the rod can be exposed a little more, as long as a very small amount of roots can be exposed to vermiculite, so that these roots can provide nutrients for meat. And then wait another month.

When it is dug up again a month later, some new roots may have come out below. If you are still not satisfied with the location of the new root, repeat the above steps and take another month to induce the root system to grow downward.

This method is called tissue activation. In addition to storing nutrients and loose nutrients, the tissue that used to act as branches has lost the ability to take root and sprout. After we succeed in rooting in the upper part, the auxin will transfer to the lower part, and then gradually reduce the depth of burying the soil, and the lower pole may take root.

If you are satisfied with the location of rooting and the length of the pole exposed during planting, you can leave the vermiculite environment and plant it in a pot. Before putting on the pot, you can cut off the pole that has not yet rooted at the bottom, and then dry it for a few days and then put it on the pot, so that it is easier to grow well-developed roots around the fresh section.

Another kind of meat is the real old pile, not a branch mentioned earlier. You can clearly see that the root of the old pile is there. However, on the root of the old pile, there are no fibrous roots, only a few stout main roots.

This situation is mostly caused by the fact that meat has been in the market for too long to have a chance to slow down the root. If there are no soft fibrous roots on the old roots, then the difficulty of rooting may be similar to that of a long branch. The treatment method can refer to the rooting method of the long branches above, let the old pile meat now take root at the bottom of the rosette and on the relatively fresh branches, and then gradually move the new root system down.

Why is the Lignified epidermis not easy to take root? We often call the position where the flesh grows leaves as the growth point (this is a misused term, botanically called the bud point). No matter what the name is, the cells here are active and versatile. Lateral buds, flower buds (foil swords) or roots can be grown here as needed. Interestingly, as long as the leaves here fall off, there will not be another leaf growing here.

Lignification is a process in which meat protects important tissues in order to better support or protect itself, such as protecting against sunlight, repairing damaged wounds, or preventing fungal damage. Of course, Lignified tissue also has a waterproof effect. When the epidermis of the meat is Lignified, the vigorous bud epidermis are protected behind the lignified shell, making it less easy to take root. The method I provided above is to let the distribution of auxin move down by gradually rooting from top to bottom, so as to achieve the purpose of activating the old stem.

Finally, there is one very important thing to say. That is, many old stems and roots may have been in a semi-rotten state, because they have no roots, there is no water flow in the catheter and avoid full black rot, but the rotten part has no life activity and is impossible to take root.

Because of the full Lignification, it may be difficult to tell whether the tissue inside is necrotic from the outside of the pole. Necrotic tissue may even become harder if it is further Lignified due to lack of water, but you certainly can't wait for them to take root. Let's sum it up.

1. After buying the old pile, you can cut a little bit from the bottom to see if the root or stem tissue is fresh. If it is necrotic, continue to cut it off until the fresh tissue is exposed.

2. Fully dry the wound

3, deeply buried in vermiculite to root, so that any position of the pole has a chance to root.

4. Reduce the depth of buried soil after successful rooting, so that other locations have the opportunity to continue to take root.

However, in any case, buying healthy old piles with good roots is the real solution. It's best to keep the old pile growing there before you buy it, so there won't be any trouble at all.

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