Reveal the reason why the leaves of succulent plants are growing less and less

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A few days ago, the curator received a letter from a meat friend saying that the delicious meat he had just bought was originally like this.

But after raising it for a period of time, the painting style changed, and it became like this.

Do you simply suspect that you don't raise the same pot of succulent plants?

So what on earth caused the succulent flowers that were as beautiful as bouquets to become this old pile state like dead wood in every spring?

Don't worry, the curator will analyze it with you.

In our previous articles, we have talked about the problem of growing more meat and fewer leaves, and we have also specifically introduced the situation of the old pile, so today we mainly understand the reason why the meat leaves become smaller from the point of view of leaf life.

One place where plants are very different from animals is that the organs of animals are an organic whole, but plants are different. Even if a leaf of the plant is cut in half, it is still trying to repair the wound while still struggling to carry out photosynthesis. If you let a fleshy side bud touch the soil, the side bud will often take root decisively and independently. Over time, the side bud will separate from the mother plant and become a new plant.

Therefore, as a leaf, it also has its own life. When leaves are born, although they can carry out photosynthesis immediately, their own growth needs far more nutrients than they synthesize through photosynthesis, so they need the support of other leaves to grow up. But as the leaves grow up, they can gradually export more nutrients than they need, and at the same time they can export organic matter, so it is an adult leaf. Adult leaves will continue to grow if their own production of organic matter is still greater than the demand for export.

However, the process is not infinite. With the gradual growth of the leaves, the cost of the leaves themselves is also increasing. In addition, the cells on the leaves are also gradually aging, and the efficiency of photosynthesis is also gradually decreasing. In this case, a leaf gradually enters old age. Nutrients can be transferred between leaves through the vascular bundle system, and capable adult leaves will continue to export nutrients to support those newborn baby leaves and those who cannot make ends meet.

If there is plenty of sun and water in the environment where the meat grows, the new leaves will grow rapidly and the old leaves that cannot make ends meet will survive. However, if you enter the home environment, the amount of sunshine will often be greatly reduced. Sometimes, in order to reduce the possibility of black rot, we water the meat even less than the sun, which will cause the meat to grow more slowly. So when the last savings of the old leaves are squeezed dry, they become a useless dry leaf and eventually fall off from the flesh.

In addition, it should be emphasized that the process of all leaf consumption is irreversible. Sometimes, the meat will grow lateral buds from the place where the leaves fall off. But in any case, no new leaves will grow from there.

Therefore, if you want to use water control or sun exposure to make the old leaves fall off, you must be careful. Because once they fall off, they will never be able to return to their original form.

So, for me, it is an irreversible process for meat to change from holding flowers to old stakes, just like the childhood we can never go back to. If you have the ability to let the meat keep the blooming flowers for a few more days, try to keep it. After all, one day in the future, these flesh will become powerful stakes as long as they are alive.

After all, youth is always gone forever.

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