Frost Damaged Succulents outdoors and at our nursery

Frost Damaged Succulents outdoors and at our nursery
Frost Damaged Succulents is it as bad as it looks ?

Here’s some things  to try.
    
Its been so cold over the last few days after such a warm period that  a lot of plants have had a bit of a shock lately
Frost has even got into the greenhouses and nipped some of our succulents, some of their leaves have gone brown and unsightly others a bit worse. Are they going to survive?  How do you know if a plant is going to be worth keeping?
well its usually good news as long as you're prepared to wait  Even badly damaged succulents are surprisingly resilient, but it may take months before they look good again.

 These Aeonium will be good  only for the compost bin









  but these will produce new plants all up the stems ideal for propagation in early spring

The leaves protect its core if that's turned soggy then you'll need a miracle, temperatures below 32 degrees [it went down to minus 6 in greenhouse ]causes the fluid in these plant cells to expand and burst, irreparably damaging the core of the plant. If you want to try and salvage a succulent with this sort of damage, snip off the dead tissue. to prevent disease a lot of succulents can handle cold below freezing for short periods. 
As for plants that have just been burned by the cold wait until early spring cutting each leaf to a point. When you’re done, the damage will be barely noticeable. By summer new growth will have hidden the short lower leaves. new growth forms from the centre of the rosettes, pretty soon the old leaves will be barely noticeable.
When re-potted in early summer gently pull off damaged leaves
   These
show the different hardiness of the same plant we will be propagating the strongest for a frost resistant plant for next year.

 Kalanchoes

 
 tend to be quite frost-tender. and can look terrible the following day  but cleaned up they usually grow back stronger and with more flowers
[this one will just survive]
Jade plant  is another widely cultivated succulent damaged at close to zero or 32 degrees. The leaves turn squishy and like wet sea weed, but as long as the plant stems are firm, it will recover and grow new but if stem is damaged to the base then sorry they rarely do .  

Out doors this week we have been covering delicate plants with fleece as temps are predicted to drop below 32 degrees F or just over one degrees in old money
In some parts of the garden there's trees that will protect them. The plants you most have to worry about are those that are out in the open, with nothing above them if you don't have fleece use old linen cloth weighted down with whatever you can find remove as soon a weather improves .

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