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Propagating Kalanchoe 'Pink Butterflies' from offsets
Comments (42)Hello! I came across this post while looking for other peanut butterfly babies that had little black dots on their leaves and glad I came across this to notice that others have it as well. Also glad that other people have some luck with growing these. I'm having a lot of luck with mine but they seem to grow the best under a nice strong grow light. I have had mine under the aero garden grow light which seems to be a really strong one and make a lot of my plants really pretty. I'm shocked to know that almost everyone that I stuck in the pot a few months back have now turned into babies that are rooted in and growing but just so everybody knows, they take a very long time. Due to of course the lack of green. But I'm willing to wait to see how they turn out. I'll take a picture of my cuties to show mine. They are very little. I know this post is very old but talking about succulents never gets old 😊 oh and another thing that I noticed about these... They don't like to be watered that much even when they are tiny babies. I have more luck with these ones that barely ever get watered. Also, unfortunately, as I'm taking a photo of this, I'm noticing my Var. Graptopedalum mirinae has lost a ton of leaves after watering. 😫 So devastating. Something told me not to water after the 1st time this happened but thankfully only to one stem but this time it's affected all 9-10 stems. 😔 this is one of my babied favorites too 🥺...See MoreAppetite for Propagation: who else is compulsive about propagating?
Comments (31)It may yet reward you with a nice plant, keep it in clean water for now till the roots grow past the stem anyway. Try to keep it 70 degrees or higher if you can. Keep checking it. The leaves at their base look healthy. Fred when Rooted the tops in Florida (so long ago now), I cut the top row of fruit off and plunked it down in the water. The fruit always rotted away, you had to change the putrid water every day, which usually was so bad it would start to foam slightly. That is the way you did it back then, of course it was always 80 degrees or higher with 80% humidity. But it worked! The only trouble I ever had was with the dratted squirrels eating chunks out of the ripening fruit! 3 years of waiting and then some scurvy grey squirrel eats the very first spot to ripen and the whole fruit then rots!...See MorePropagating a Sunshine Ligustrum from cuttings
Comments (2)Well, that is quite an achievement! No idea why none at all grew. But personally I would not have started with soft growth in summer. Try again with semi ripe stems about 8 ins long and stick them in the ground right now. As long as the ground doesn't dry out you can ignore them until next spring and they should root....See MorePropagation Pods Anyone?
Comments (31)Whether I do in ground air layering or use rooting pods, as recommended I always am sure to strip off a band of bark at least one inch wide and completely scratch off the underlying cambium layer, no rooting hormone necessary. Funny, but in July I had a rose loving friend over and he brought along a bunch of pods, I explicitly told him how to go about the procedure and not to slack off on doing so and handed him an exacto knife to get going. Mmmm, he was finished in rather a flash and I wondered if had done things correctly. I let those pods be for what must of been two months and upon removing them, zip nothing for roots. David had barely only bothered to scuff up and slice a few cuts in the bark in which merely had healed over. I razzed him a bit that next time he needs to listen! LOL. I develop a few roses of my own and David is a big clivia fan with many exquisite rare varieties, works good for both of us our back and forth trades, good rapport and banter well :)...See Moreenterotoxigenic000
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