Scorch on Conophytum

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Scorch on Conophytum

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One of my favourite plants got scorch damage a couple of years ago. Now I don’t know if this is wishful thinking but it seems to me the damaged area is getting smaller as the plant continues to grow. Anyone had scorch damage disappear eventually?
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It will slowly vanish beneath the upward growth of the new bodies, I would guess that if you carefully remove all the dead growth the resulting hole will fill in more quickly than if you leave it like that.
I occasionally get similar scorched patches on my Deutercohnias if I forget to put them outside in hot weather and I find that removing the dead bits is the best strategy
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Thanks. I hadn’t been brave enough to get the knife out! But I’ll give it a go now.
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A fine pair of scissors might be easier than a knife, assuming you are being literal 😀
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Just pull them out with tweezers then snip off any stubborn ones as Ali Baba suggested.
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Yes sorry I wasn’t being literal!
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Yup, I do the tweezers thing as well. Works well when I've been careless and the hole fills in fairly quickly.
First it was orchids, then, since c.2001, cacti and succulents. I'm into South African plants, mainly conos, lithops and haworthias, with a few cacti, especially 'posh' mamms, turbs and other smalls. Now it’s stapeliads as well...
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Update one year on. I removed the dead area last autumn with tweezers. The hole has now completely filled in. You can just make out the slightly depressed area where the hole was which I guess will fill out by this time next year. Thanks for the advice everyone!
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