Can the white powder on the succulent leaves with powder be regenerated?

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There is such a beautiful group of succulent meat in the succulent family-succulent with powder. But this group of meat is relatively delicate, the white powder on the leaves is easy to touch off!

In order to solve the confusion of "whether white powder can be regenerated or not", meat friends have done a lot of experiments.

They scrubbed the white powder off the meat leaves and then watched to see if it could be regenerated.

The experiment found that some varieties of white powder can be regenerated, some can not, and some can only be partially regenerated, there is no law to speak of.

After consulting the data, the curator found that: in fact, whether the white powder on the meat leaves can be regenerated, the waxy layer is the standard preparation when the epidermal cells are reborn, for a single epidermal cell, the waxy layer cannot be regenerated, but for the whole leaf, the new epidermal cells on the leaves will have a new waxy layer.

So some succulent new leaves will have white powder, with powdered succulent relatively small leaves after wiping off white powder, can also be regenerated. This is because for the small leaves, there are a lot of new cells, and each new cell will have white powder, so you don't care about the ones that were wiped off at first. On the contrary, after wiping off the white powder from the larger leaves, the white powder brought by the new cells can no longer make up for the loss, so it seems to be unable to regenerate or partially regenerate.

There are some meat powder is relatively thick, such as snow lotus, Mexican giant and fairy cup of some meat, some meat powder is very thin, such as 8000 generations, flower and moon night meat. In fact, the thick powder is not that the white powder on the leaves accumulates many thick layers, but that the particles of the white powder itself are relatively large. The adhesion of the powder on the thick powder succulent leaves is very weak, and it is possible to knock off the powder if it is windy or watered. The situation of thin powder and succulent is just the opposite, the adhesion of powder is strong, and it is not easy to drop powder. Of course, there are many succulent powders whose thickness is between thick powder and thin powder, and they are not too afraid of watering, but touching them with their hands will certainly leave fingerprints, such as Teyulian, Bluebird and so on.

The white powder on meat has two functions, one is to resist a considerable part of the UV attack, and the other is to effectively reduce the moisture loss of meat. Therefore, meat without powder is more likely to get sunburn than meat without powder, and the leaves are more likely to become soft due to water loss. In the same conservation environment, white succulent plants are more likely to lose moisture than those whose leaves are covered with a uniform waxy layer instead of white powder (such as Dongyun).

Maintenance of succulent plant with powder:

1. When taking off the soil and planting with powdery succulent plants, try to touch the outermost leaves with your hands and gently hold them with your fingers. If you have long elbow tweezers, you can also use tweezers to clamp the roots to plant. When the meat naturally metabolizes the outermost leaves, it will show a perfect state.

two。 Succulent leaf insertion with powder: wiping off the white powder on the leaf surface and then leaf insertion can obviously shorten the time of leaf emergence. Ps: this is probably because the leaves of the meat have lost the protection of wax, so they have a sense of crisis and will give birth to a baby as soon as possible. Otherwise, the mother leaf always thinks that she can afford to live, so she is reluctant to emerge.

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