Cleaning succulents?
I noticed today that when I rubbed the leaf of my pearl echeveria it became shinier, almost like there was a film on it. I proceeded to do it with all my other succulents too and something rubs off. Should I be cleaning them? If yes, how do? #succulentsquad #succulentlove #succulents #plantsmakepeoplehappy #plantaddict #plantmafia #greggang
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That's actually something they produce naturally to protect them from the sun, it's almost like sunscreen and why it looks like waterstains when you accidentally get water on their leaves. Other than stray soil and water drops, your succulents shouldn't need any clean up save for maybe clearing out pups to propagate~ 😊
this is called farina, like @LadyStarStrings said it’s like a sunscreen, from what i’ve seen you shouldn’t rub it off because the plant could get sunburned😅
@Lithopslover yes, unfortunately. It’s almost impossible to prevent it 100% anyway. But, all echeveria, that I’ve owned at least, will constantly churn out new leaves at the top, and old leaves at the bottom will dry up occasionally to be replaced. My favorite echeveria I own had very little farina when I bought it because it wasn’t getting enough light, and it was very green. Once I gave it very strong light, it quickly started growing new leaves, which had thick minty-blue farina, and they replaced the old leaves until none of it was green anymore. Many echeveria have some truly beautiful colors you can bring out with very strong direct light, btw!
@Jana85 I’m seriously tempted to@buy an led bulb with 5000 lumen
