Just bought home my first Echeveria, while travelling home i popped it inside the massive new pot i got for one of my other plants and the pot fell over in transit, i went to grab it as it fell and ive took the farnia off some of the leaves🥲 i assume this will not come back?
by Solid_Sherbet7380
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No farina does not grow back. Just make sure that you slowly acclimate it to more light to make sure it does not get sunburn.
That isn’t a huge deal other than the aesthetics. So long as you do your best to leave the farina otherwise. Eventually it will grow out and you’ll never know. The farina as you may know helps with sunburn (amongst other benefits) but a little marking isn’t a big deal. All of my succulents have markings from loss of farina just from moving pots around. Some succulents I swear I could look at them the wrong way and the farina is disturbed lol
It won’t appear back but it’s ok, don’t worry, you have a perle von nurnberg and eventually will grow more leaves, it will be fine, give it lots of light tho, not indirect light, it has to be intense, like full sun for 8 hours a day minimum that plant is a maniac for light, i had to buy grow light bulbs otherwise it grows etiolated super fast, i keep it under the grow light 16 hours per day.
You water it only when the lower leaves are soft to touch, when let you fold them like a taco, that’s when you water it, and sometimes you will see lower leaves dry out and die, which is normal because it’s growing new ones on the top. This plant likes to get tall, do not confuse tall with etiolated which are waaay different: etiolated is ugly, bad, tall is normal. When it gets tall you just behead it and plant it again and it will get tall again in some months. You can watch videos on youtube about how to do this. When you behead it and restart, it takes weeks for the plant to go from looking like dying (because of the lack of roots to hydrate) to start growing again. Every time I behead mine i worry I killed it because i’m impatient haha but it just takes its time.
Make sure soil is good for succulents, add perlite. This plant is very easy to propagate, if some leaves fall by accident when you are handling the plant, if you plug out some leaves to propagate (make sure they’re the plumpy leaves), you just place them in a shallow container with some succulent/cactus soil and put them in a place where they get indirect light and moist the water every day, I use a spraying bottle for that, and in some months they will grow roots and mini plants, once the leave dries out completely and it is very easy to plug out the baby plant, then they’re ready to be potted. =) . Every time i behead mine i do this with all the leaves i plug out to reduce its height, that i have so so many, i don’t know what to do with them i try to give them away but all my friends have now xD
TLDR you’ll be fine, don’t worry to much, i stop caring about the farina, as mine are indoors, of course i try not to remove it accidentally the most i can but sometimes it is inevitable, especially if you are manipulating it to behead it, or repotting it.
The Chronicles of Farnia.
It’s fine , this isn’t a significant damage and won’t effect it really much at all