Help ID my baby succulents, grown from cuttings
Hope its ok to post an ID request here and not in the ID forums - let me know if I ought to be posting there instead.
Not sure if these little guys are big enough yet to ID, but they're at the point my untrained eye has noticed they're distinctly unique. For scale, they're in 1.5" diameter thumb pots.
(can provide closeups if needed)
thanks!
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kamereone
7 years agoRelated Discussions
Need help with my baby succulent.
Comments (4)Laura, your plant looks like an Echeveria Perle Von Nurnberg. Your plant seems fine, but extremely etiolated (stretched) and thirsty. Etiolation for succulents is an irreversible process, and they are cause by insufficient lighting conditions. What is your location? And what direction are your windows facing? You will need at least 4-5 hours of sunlight a day to keep these type of plants looking tight and pretty in their rosette forms. Personally your mix looks very wet and peaty too. Almost all problems with "wrinkly leaves" or "look their they are dying" begin with poor roots. The No 1 killer for succulents are poor wet water logged soil that usually drown the roots from too much moisture. If you can get access to perlite/pumice I would recommend adding them to your soil. Bernard...See MoreHelp cutting down my succulent
Comments (5)If this was my plant I would cut it from about 2 inches from the top let it callus for a couple days and then plant it. I would also propagate the left over leaves that were left on the stem. I'm sure you know this but make sure you put the freshly cut top and leaves in a dry shady place while you're waiting for them to callus:) Good luck . Ps- that mark on the bottom doesn't look like rot I wouldn't worry about it. Over time no matter how hard you try succulents get damaged somehow someway....See MoreWhat succulents have you grown from seeds?
Comments (22)I am an impatient sloppy kind of person who really is not the cactus seed kind of gal. BUT I do seed out things that I want a bank for outdoors. Or , I grab a seed pod from a plant and throw it in a pot of unsterilized potting mix with a bunch of added perlite. One breeder/botanist type that I used to follow on another form, mentioned that he did not do a lot of sterilizing or special treatment because he wanted the strong seed not the wimpy guys. He wanted the ones that would survive in the wild. HMM. It is amazing that we listen to the person who speaks our language (confirms and validates our defects of character). LOL.Most of my Seeds are free. I only want one cactus normally so I normally buy them wanting immediate satisfaction, but I love my agave and I was driving by that stand of Agave neomexicana west of Artesia New Mexico and the car just stopped itself. Not many viable seed due to a very happy bug inside but I did get some. That was really true about the yuca seeds that I collected. Yucca elata Agave neo-mexicana Nolina texana from on my land but do not germinate as often as I would like since I am planting them all over the place. I grow these every year and put them out. Agave striata from a parent plant on my place. It makes seed every year. I want a bank of them. I am thinking of ordering some seed for A striata 'live wire' or one of the populations that turn pink. I will plant them out doors next spring. There is a Agave bachata in the upper left corner. Dykia from a friend....See MoreSucculent ID and baby care!
Comments (11)Oh boy, you live really close to me. Are you sure the soil dries within 5 days? I thought so too, but it turns out if you leave the stick in for a good 15 mins, you will get a better idea. I have had instances where I thought it was quite dry but turns out it was still wet at the very bottom or around the roots where the soil has really clumped together. This is why I completely gave up on using anything organic. They vary the moisture a lot just by increasing the ratio sligthly. I made my mix every time I potted and realised, some batches stayed wet for a month just because I forgot and used 50:50 instead of 60:40. So I'm just using grit and some kind of clay based gravel. Well it ultimately depends on your climate, I'm not sure how hot or dry where you live is. It was unbearably hot, droughts everywhere, then next week, its floods and landslides everywhere. I don't know what is happening to the climate here. P.S now don't drastically change anything now. Just see how it fares with your current mix. Trail and error, and a lot of patience works best. If it turns out the plant is dying, then you know its your mix. I would say, avoid coco coir/peat. It could contain lots of salt since they process them with saltwater. Unless you know for sure they use freshwater....See Morekamereone
7 years ago
rina_Ontario,Canada 5a
7 years agoNo kamereone, they are just laying on that plastic cover that just happened to have some holes in it. There is no water or anything else; few grains of gravel fell in the middle. It just happened to be next to me when I had leaves in my hands, ready to toss them :) I do not fuss about leaves at all: leave them on the paper towel, or top of the mix, or just anything - I do not spray them or anything else (some ppl advice to spray, so you decide what you want to do), most of them start growing sooner or later. And I never attempted rooting leaves in enclosed container & wet peat - I do not believe that extra humidity is good for leaves (again, JMO!).
I only start watering when mother leaf start dying - most (if not all) moisture stored in it used by the new plantlet and it's roots. That is time I usually put them in some grainy mix (unless they started growing on top of the mix).
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7 years agoI use chicken grit that is granite chips (the colored grit is some decorative stones that were mixed in). I use mix of grit and perlite and some turface for all my succulents. Aquarium pebbles are usually bigger, much smoother (maybe that decorative grit is aquarium gravel? - not sure) and often colored.
Here is photo of chicken grit:
Some plants will root faster than others. So it also depends on which leaves you are propagating. I have done it on top of mix of perlite and some C&S soil too, but usually do not bother setting it up like that any more:
Here are the same leaves I showed on April 9, that were on a black plastic cover, (I put them on a terracotta saucer) plantlets are bigger now (I didn't do anything with them, didn't water):If I wanted to keep growing them (not sure if I will - have plenty of plants, haha), I would probably put them on top of the mix and sprinkle little of it on top of the roots . It could be also just perlite or pumice if you have some. Or any mix you are using, juts put very light cover.
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7 years agoThird try's the charm, hopefully, for this reply! I swear I wrote one Sunday after yard work, but apparently didn't hit Submit. Essentially: wow those are amazing roots. What sort of temp/humidity/light level do you have them in?
I actually have some aloe in a chunky mix of 50/50 grit and clay, no idea why putting these succulents in that same mix never occurred to me. Here are the more promising looking ones on standby.... signs of leaf, but no roots.
may 4th - a month later, and these are the star pupils... some leaf, no roots · More InfoAnd probably three times as many, looking the same as the day the fell / were picked. No misting, ambient indirect light, constant 15-20*C / 60-70*F, humidity 20-40%.
Here's one from the original question, the little guy from the upper right,
April 6 1.5" pot · More Infoand a month later, in a larger pot with a mulch bark mix:
4 May 2017, 3.5" pot - significant growth in the past month · More Inforina_Ontario,Canada 5a
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