Twenty-two and nursing a gardening addiction in a little apartment while I figure out life. I prefer succulents and other weirdos of the plant world, but all plants are beautiful. Questions and comments are welcome. Suggestions are welcome if you have thought them through.
Succulent cuttings 6/25/2012
It’s been awhile since I talked about my various cuttings from my echeverias and sedums. Like many (but not all) succulents, new plants can be started from a single leaf of these plants.
Top row: Sedum cuttings. My S. morganianum loses leaves like nobody’s business, and I find it hard to resist starting new plants from them. My S. something-or-another has also dropped a few leaves recently; a few of the smaller ones accidentally ended up in with the S. morganianums, and I have two big ones in a “pot” by themselves.
Middle row: Echeveria ‘ramillette’. These cuttings were taken in the fall, shortly before the parent plant bit the dust. The two on the left were slow to put down roots, and therefore somewhat smaller than the other echeveria cuttings taken at the same time. The rightmost one is the same age as the others, and has put down roots, but for some reason just sits there without leaves.
Bottom row: Echeveria ‘lola’. The two cuttings on the left are also from the fall. The two leaves in the single pot are recently-fallen leaves that I noticed were producing roots. The smaller of the two is actually from one of the cuttings!
My Echeveria lola cuttings are finally losing their parent-leaves! At first I wondered if it was because I started using fertilizer on them, but the parent plant (which I am not fertilizing) is losing a bottom leaf or two, too.
The cutting from the whatsit plant in its new home. It has roots now! Taken on 3/28.
Took a cutting off the whatsit plant on 3/20/2012. Its parent was falling down on top of it. It has roots now, but I like this picture.
I have a second Echeveria ‘lola’ cutting that’s doing well, and it has two rosettes!
My healthiest Echeveria ‘lola’ cutting continued to do well while I was gone for break.
Pics of its progress are from 1/19, 12/10, 11/27, and 11/20.
My windowsill, finals week (December). Soon I will be back at school, see my friends again, and have my plants back!
Hopefully I will have a schefflera cutting to add to my collection. The first one grew new leaves and rooted, but then mysteriously bit the dust. I took another cutting from my dad’s plant, and I think it has roots already!
I also hope my echeveria and Sedum morganianum cuttings have grown while in the care of the greenhouse people. I’ll have pictures and updates of them when I’m back :)
My Echeveria lola cutting continues to grow beautifully!
Not much change in the other Echeverias. The E. ramillettes with nice leaves have yet to figure out they should put down roots, and the rooted echeverias haven’t figured out leaves (except for maybe one of the E. lolas, but the speck is so tiny I can’t figure out if it’s actually a leaf).
My Sedum morganianum drops leaves if you so much as look at it funny. I’m not sure if this is a usual trait of the plant, or due to a fault in its environment. Either way, this meant that when I repotted it, it lost a rather frightening number of leaves. I threw out the smaller ones, but I kept the larger ones for propagation. At the same time, I took off two badly-placed small branches for the same purpose. At least one of the small branches has rooted, and three of the leaf-cuttings have rooted and are sprouting leaves.
Also, the rooted cuttings are a darker, healthier-looking green than any part of the parent plant. I’m not sure what’s up with that.
My Echeveria lola cutting grew noticeably the three days I was gone for break! :D It’s pretty and I’m very excited. I also messed with the settings on my camera, and this picture turned out so much better than the last set.
