Why did you become a succulent killer? It must be because you don't understand the succulent distress signal.

In the process of raising succulent plants, we often receive "cry for help" signals from all kinds of meat. If we don't find it in time, or if we don't care about it, we may regret it later.

So, which distress signals for succulent plants should we pay attention to?

In the process of raising meat, many meat lovers may find that there is an one-sided "tilt" in the meat, and some people think that it may be caused by the excessive size of the meat plant, so they disagree, but this is actually the meat sending you a "call for help" signal! We should help.

Phenomenon 1. The appearance of succulent plants is obviously tilted to the light-receiving side.

Most plants have the habit of facing the sun and tending to light. This is particularly prominent for most cactus succulent flowers, which are sexually warm, dry and sunny. This occurs when the plant is exposed to light in one direction for a long time.

If this happens to your flesh, it is actually reminding you that it is time to turn the flowerpot in a direction. A 180-degree rotation will change the uneven light exposure of the plant.

By turning the direction, the plant will slowly stand upright. However, in order to prevent it from tilting again, it is necessary to turn the flowerpot around after a period of time. Especially indoor planting, we should pay more attention to this point.

Phenomenon 2. When succulent plants grow up, they look like "top-heavy".

As the plant grows up, some grow tall and big, and slowly tend to do it over and over again, looking like "top-heavy" and losing their center of gravity. When the supporting effect of the soil is weakened or the root soil is loose, it will cause the plant to tilt to one side.

If this happens to your meat, it is actually reminding you: dude, please check to see if the soil is loose. If so, please help straighten up.

First, the plant can be straightened, stand a support next to the plant, or the loose soil can be compacted and then reinforced with a certain amount of pebbles.

Second, if possible, you can wait for the opportunity to change the basin, fill in new soil, correct the tilt of the plant, and at the same time, check whether there is something wrong with the root of the plant.

Phenomenon 3. The meat is small and often changes direction, but there is still a "tilt" phenomenon.

If your plant is not very big, you will often change its direction to face the sun, but your flesh is still tilted, which may be something wrong with the root of the plant.

When you get root rot, be eaten by moths, and rot at the bottom of the stem, there will be a sudden tilt, which seems to be a "cry for help" signal to the growers.

If we ignore it and ignore the message conveyed by plants, it will be too late when it is dumped in the future. if we want to remedy it, there will be nothing we can do. Therefore, when it is found that the plant is tilted, we should be vigilant.

In particular, we should first consider and promptly check whether there is something wrong with the root or the lower end of the stem, so that timely measures can be taken: light ones can change the environment and improve lighting and ventilation conditions; partial decay can be removed, disinfected and dried before planting; heavy ones can only take upper stems and leaves or take bulbs for cutting and grafting.

In the process of raising meat, problems of one kind or another are often found in leaves.

Phenomenon 4. A good plant of meat is suddenly left with a bare pole.

There are many reasons for succulent leaves, which are generally referred to as these cases, which can be compared according to the maintenance situation:

① is overwatered. Novice meat friends can not control their own hands, see that the meat is a little dry and keep watering, resulting in too much water, causing leaves to fall off as soon as they touch.

For this kind of situation, we must pay attention to watering at ordinary times. In general, dry and thorough watering is OK, and it is OK not to cause stagnant water in the basin.

Black rot caused by ②. Leaves fall off as soon as they are touched, which is often a sign of succulent black rot.

At this time, we should remove and throw away the black rot leaves, and then see if its poles and roots have blackened. If it is found that it is too late, the black rot is really hopeless.

If you find that in time, you can use a sterilized knife to cut off the black rot, cut it as clean as possible, and then dry the wound in an astigmatic and ventilated place and put it on the basin.

In addition, black rot is also contagious to a certain extent. If one of the meat is found to have black rot, the other meat should be isolated at this time. Black rot generally occurs in summer, usually maintenance should pay more attention to ventilation.

③ lacks light. Sometimes the lack of light for a long time can cause the leaves to fall off as soon as they are touched.

The best solution to this situation is to bask in the sun at ordinary times, but be careful not to get sunburn in summer. Most meat needs shade.

The rotten root of ④ caused. The leaves fall off as soon as they are touched, and sometimes there may be something wrong with the root system of the meat.

At this time, you can pull out the meat to see if there is anything wrong with the root system. If there is a problem, cut off the rotten root with a sterilized knife, then put some carbendazim powder on the wound, dry the wound and then re-pot it.

⑤ caused by airtight soil and flowerpots. Sometimes the soil and flowerpots used for meat can cause leaves to fall if they are not breathable. At this time, you can change the soil and basin in time.

Normal metabolism of ⑥. This kind of situation is easy to judge, mostly only the leaves at the bottom fall off, and the cotyledons are wrinkled, which is not easy to fall off.

Phenomenon 5. The color of the leaf becomes abnormally transparent and easy to fall off.

The shape of succulent leaves remains the same, without the symptoms of crimping, wilting, deformation, or yellow and green, they still look full, even fuller than ordinary leaves, but the color becomes abnormally transparent, and the leaves are easy to fall off. it will be soft and black in the later stage.

This is the leaf water, the leaf water part is not fixed, some below the water, and some half of the water appears. And the general leaf water, accompanied by the stem may also be a little transparent.

If there are only one or two leaves, you can first transfer the succulent plants to the astigmatism ventilation place for observation. If the water does not spread, don't worry about it, and wait for the meat to absorb the leaves.

If there is a spread, or if a large area of water is found, remove all the water with a clean, sterile knife, apply carbendazim on the cut, and leave it in a ventilated place to dry. Usually maintenance to control watering and supplementary lighting, and more ventilation.

Phenomenon 6. White bugs appear on the leaves

This is a scale insect. When it is found that there are shell insects on individual leaves, it can be manually removed with tweezers, toothpicks or wet brushes, or the whole plant can be pulled out and washed with water several times, and the diseased plant can be wiped repeatedly with 75% alcohol, or buried by spraying medicine. Remember to change the soil or scald the soil with boiling water several times after treatment.

Phenomenon 7. There are small black spots on the leaves

This is anthrax and usually occurs in over-planted, poorly ventilated or injured wounds. The main damage occurred in the stem, stem node or near the edge of the small brown spots, and then expanded into round to oval or semicircular to amorphous brown spots.

Brown depressions and spots are produced in the early stage of the disease, and when serious, there is gangrene in the center of the spot, which is difficult to cure. When buying, you should pay attention to whether the plant has this epidemic disease and avoid buying. When you get sick, be sure to cut off and burn the disease, and then use special agents such as anthrax and Fumei.

Phenomenon 8. There are rusty spots on the leaves.

This is due to rust, mainly due to improper cultivation management, such as poor pot soil, lack of nutrients, or long-term poor ventilation of potted plants, direct watering at the top of the plant, and rust infection caused by environmental factors.

The disease occurs in the plant epidermis. At the initial stage, swollen dots appear in the stem epidermis, showing yellow or reddish brown in the center, and then slowly expand around, seriously sagging to form ulcers, blackening tissue and even death.

In addition to paying attention to management, to strengthen ventilation and avoid watering at the top of the plant, 12.5% uniconazole wettable powder 2000-3000 times or ammonium Naipu 1500002000 times diluent can be sprayed once a week.

Phenomenon 9. White cotton wool and filamentous diseases appear in the succulent roots.

This is a root powder scale bug. When the plant is dormant, the basin soil is dry, and the root powder beetle has strong fecundity, and it will climb out from the bottom of the basin and invade the other pot. if the plant is seriously injured, the soil near the flower root is white and cannot be watered. This pest is mostly parasitic on the root of the plant, the body length is about a few millimeters, there is white powder on the outside, and the parasitic place is a lump.

Filling the culture soil with water, or "Guoguang must be treated", the two flower protection gods are less harmful and have a preventive effect; if they have been parasitized, they can wash the plants, remove the parasitic part of the root lice, and plant new soil.

You can also use prednisone, which can remove most pests. They can only be used occasionally on plants that are not edible. Plants used for eating cannot be used. Be sure to carefully look at the mode of use and dilution multiple.

Phenomenon 10. Succulent plants grow thinner and thinner

There are many reasons for succulent growing and thinning. (source: Zhihu, author: outsider)

① root is not good. Slow roots do not recover, and the roots die, which is the most common reason for getting thinner and thinner.

The solution is to trim the root and change the soil and re-root. Pay attention to the soil of the root (soft, water retention, delicate, recommended: peat + vermiculite + perlite), pay attention to the sun exposure before the root is slow, and the best watering method is to soak the basin during the slow root period.

② soil consolidation. Hinder the growth of the roots and the arrival of water. Solution: change the soil.

③ worms. There are many types of insects, some of which are difficult to find in the soil, such as small black flying larvae. It is best to pull out the roots of the plant for examination. Solution: spray, change the soil.

④ got sick. It is usually a fungal infection, which in turn develops into water and black rot. Solution: mild spray, removal of diseased tissue, and severe beheading. (pay attention to isolation, it is very contagious, and advice that is too serious should be discarded directly.)

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