The Season Begins!

I'm finally able to move my plants outside, and so I did a lot of repotting and pruning.

These are the cuttings from the mother plant who needed a pruning badly.

Echeveria "Etna" and Kalanchoe luciae both beheaded and replanted.

Two new Aeoniums: "Mardi Gras" and arborium variegata? Also this container has the last of my good looking Kiwi, which has lost much of it's more delicate cream and pink colors.

Portulaca afra variegata and Crassula Springtime in a small arrangement.

Various cuttings from leggy succulents in my collection. Many of these I cannot identify.

Orphaned succulent leaves arranged neatly and ready for another round of propagation!

This is last year's succulent arrangement. It's been pruned down, and the bare spots filled in with new cuttings.

Propagation Progress

It's been a while since I made cuttings from my plants. They are all sufficiently calloused so I potted them all up today. I put them on a shady part of my porch so they won't be overwhelmed. I think they look very handsome next to my pots of freshly sprouting leaf cuttings!

2015 Succulent Propagation

It's been a few years since I've gone out of my way to make as many cuttings as I could comfortably fit in my home! This year I'm trying again on plants that didn't work out for me before, and new ones I haven't tried as well as some oldies but goodies. Here are a couple pictures of my current propagation project!

In the top container I have leaves from my Pearl von Nurnberg, sunset seedum, anacampseros, and a few other plants I've not identified. In the bottom container I have leaves from my burros tail, and a couple varieties of stacked crassula. I have no idea if the latter will do anything at all. I had to snap the joined leaves in half in order to pull them off the cuttings. I figured instead of tossing them, I'd try rooting them.

In this box I have some cuttings out to dry from my crown of thorns, bears paw, stapelia, three varieties of stacked crassula, and a burrows tail plant.

Succulent Propagation Project

Several months ago I started taking cuttings from my succulents, and let hem all dry out a bit before laying the leaves onto some cactus potting mix. I took cuttings or leaves from: ghost plant, Sunset seedum, bear's paw, panda plant, and kalanchoe thyrsiflora.

After putting the leaves on soil to allow them to root properly, it became evident that my light source was less than adequate. I had been keeping them on a bench inside my hone with a grow light about 1.5 feet to 2 feet above them. Not only was it not enough light for them, but it was getting very hot as well.

Many of my baby succulents are very tall and lanky, but they are now all sitting in my bedroom windowsill where they get direct afternoon sunlight. They all seem to be doing much better, although none of them are fully established yet.

I also continue to add more succulent leaves, as they fall off the mother plant, or as I get new plants, so my tray of succulent babies continues to produce new plants! Today I added some pork and beans, burro's tail, and jade as well as a couple unknowns.