Few more

Variegated Black Knight

I'm lucky enough to be able to root outside at most any time of year. And I do. If it falls off of a plant, or if I prune it, I try to root it. Generally, I don't pay a lot of attention to the temperature - unless it is really Florida cold, in the low 40s or 30s.

Leaves that fall off outside might be tucked into the ground to root and grow right there. Or I might throw them on the counter in bright shade.

Here are some Aloe juvenna rooting.

My winters are dry, so that may be why things root well in the fall and winter. I have more clippings rot during the summers - when it is wet, hot and very humid.

Edit - Irene?? It was Hurricane Irma! Don't know what I was thinking? LOL

Few recent cuttings: S. rubrotinctum; Gasteria - few didn't make it and dried up - they are very small, pot is 2". Bottom right is cutting of C. pellucida variegata:

Rina wow. You are so good at doing this. Very impressive. Please keep us updated and in winter to boot ! Bravo

Socks terrific!! What a bunch of cuties.

Crenda. So proud of you !! Beautiful plants you have there. The pinkish one to die for

Mike - I have a problem...can't really discard a living thing (but I have made myself recently, and disposed off excessive leaves and even few cuttings!!!)

Another cutting of P. afra but started in Fall 2017 - finally well rooted:

I know, Rina. Sometimes I feel like a murderer. I planted most of those on the table and will put the rest into pots to give away assuming they root. Beautiful sans!! I don't have one. They are common outdoor plants here and very often are neglected and look bad. Those make me think I need one.

socks

Thank you. Photo is not so great, quite overexposed. They are much nicer color. I can't wait until its warm enough to put most plants outside - that is when my neighbours want some too, but not when it is so cold as has been so far :)

What are the cuttings on top in your photo?

Can I play? I can't discard a living thing either,if it's a plant. I've had my wife throw a plant or two away that I really didn't want.

I absolutely love free plants. We propagate first, worry about room for them after. Some of these were started before I changed from peat moss based soil, so please forgive me.

I'm extremely impatient with leaf cuttings and take the plant away too early. I also divide them. These were so small at one point that I had to put some sand on the top so that they wouldn't just lie on their side.

I'm the world's worst pencil cactus propagator, but I keep trying. These have rooted while just as many rotted because I did it wrong.

A little bit of everything. Aeoniums never work! I'll have to behead mine, although it's not my favorite.

Haworthias. One is rootless and the others have one root. Keeping these dry until something happens. Mother plant below.

Perle von Nurnberg was beheaded. The other E.s were grown from leaf cuttings.

Top of our refrigerator.

A friend found these in a dark corner of his living room and gave them to me today. More fodder for bonsai. These are all just phone photos. Color on the one below is way off.

JeffO, you keep that up you may have to get yourself a huge greenhouse or something!@! Wow. So many different colors and roots. Very nice. I am the same way. If I leaf drops off, if I accidentally break a branch, if I want spares, if I am afraid to loose one and want a back up or if I just want to have fun, I make more and more. Sometimes I think it would be a great little business to sell a few..

Rina, I have still yet to grow one of a Sans..It has to be unusual and quite pretty to take a spot in my room, and yours fit the bill. Beautiful!

What a pretty P.Afra!!Love it. So bonsai looking.

Here are a few more of some of mine..

Mike, there is a Facebook group where people sell succulents. I could sell some, but since I don't have much room, I don't know if it would be worth the trouble, or maybe just selling them would take some fun out of it and add stress. I would have a lot more room in the basement if I didn't grow Coleuses from fall to spring under a 4' four lamp grow light. I would love to do some trading someday. Is there ever a trading thread here? Not to derail this thread. Back to your normally scheduled programming...

Here's a few

Rina I think it’s Crassula undulata. Ripply leaf, not too thick.

Hi Mike.....Your cuttings look fantastic! I hope you & your mom are doing well. I've been playing with the kitten a lot and trying to catch up on watering plants.

Just starting to see roots on these :)

Closer view, there is a root looking for the soil. (I covered it after the pic)

This Mother gollum

has this little cutting underneath

This was a solid area of Hummel's Ghost, I think it's then called Hellios.

Crenda, wow you have been busy! I hope you have many off sets for Spring.

Rina, I love all those burros tails... one of my favorites.

-Nancy

I have the same problem as Rina. It's hard to throw live things out. Some of the current over-grown plants getting a new pot. The last picture are some cuttings I've taken that I will use when I give a talk to some ladies from High School. I will be showing how I make my mix. I will also talk about watering (less) and air and lighting. Do these cuttings look like they might be of interest to my group?

Wow, nice cuttings. I am sure ladies will like them. What are the long plants with the roots?

Are potted ones - Aeoniums, Sans - all your divisions?

Not really cuttings - just finding fallen leaves growing into new plants - if they survive:

Aloebot those 2 Aloes are beautiful what are they?

Rina; Crassula tetragona ssp. robusta. Yes, once the Aeos and Sans reach a critical mass they kind of grow out of control. If you notice there are some small Gollums. I have a little forest of them under a very large mama plant. You need to get Jeff to stop by when he is down here so I can send the Sansevieria back with him.

Kara; They are a variegated form of Aloe arborescens.

Does anyone know what the powder blue Pachy looking plants might be? They have a scorpion shaped flower stalk with pink/orange flowers.

Yes!

Two possibilities suggested to me: xPachyveria clavata or Pachyphytum 'Blue Haze'; I am not sure which one it is. Here are some more pics of mine; same plant on lower right before I got 'better lights' :) - it was outside, but now is more compact under lights. I already beheaded it; blooming part is what I cut off:

xPachyveria clavata

Parentage: Pachyphytum bracteosum x E. sp.

The plant is common in cultivation but nearly always under the wrong name Echeveria or x Pachyveria ‘Clavifolia’.

x Pachyveria ‘Clavata’ is sometimes confused with x P. ‘Scheideckeri’ because young plants look somewhat similar. Older plants look different: x P. ‘Clavata’ has quite a long stem, the inflorescence is 2- to 3- furcate, the bracts are larger and do not fall off when the inflorescence is spent and the petals have appendages at the base.

Pachyphytum 'Blue Haze':

Hybrid; parents: Pachyphytum bracteosum & Pachyphytum glutinale
Also sold as P. 'Blue Pearls'; P. bracteosum; xPachyveria

This is from a leaf cutting I don't know what is is other than Echeveria. The leaves will get more frilly over time. The parent plant has relatively longer and narrower leaves from not enough light. This looks so much better. 2" pot.

Jeff

Very nice & compact plant.

Frilly one with longer & narrower leaves could be E. shaviana - my plant in probably not enough light:

Thanks Rina. I have never had a clue as to what this is. It is very prolific. I think it may still have some blooms on it. If so, I will try to get a picture tomorrow.

Mike; what kind of luck are you having with the Senecio? Kleinia? in the 2nd set of pictures?

Some Jade ‘monstrose’ aka: all lotr varieties combined. I think these leaves are all Hobbits, but the mom plant as Gollum and Legolas leaves.

Some e. Purposorum leaves I managed to root.

Varigaged Haworrhia cymbiformis from a leaf

Seek and you will find.

Another example of me taking the plant away from the leaf too soon, but it's doing well. It's tiny.

Few more cuttings - no roots yet. They are 2 - 3" tall from the soil line. C. ovata 'Crosby's Compact':

I have a Cremnosedum "Little Gem". I bought this a year ago and it made very little progress - it barely grew after it bloomed. So, I decided to cut all branches and restart as cuttings and stuck it all on the square plastic pot, yes ALL branches leaving the round terra cotta pot with nothing but rooted stump. The cuttings all rooted and became established but remained a slow grower - like at a glacial pace. The original plant (or whats left of it) on the other hand was given the same amount of light and watered in the same manner as the square plant. Lo and behold, the plant came back with a vengeance and seemed to outgrow the cuttings. Noted the significant variation in the shape of the foliage as well as its color. I'm happy either way.

A Haworthia coarctata (I think) has rooted for me. I took this photo in front of exactly the wrong background so I circled them. At first, I thought the things in the blue circle were roots. I pulled one out to check on them and found these monsters. Then I remembered that Haworthias have big root systems. Nice to see because the parent plant is super stressed, red, and the leaves won't plump up (any advice on that, let me know), so I want to start over, even if it isn't one of my favorites.

That stem in the background is a beheaded Aeonium.

JeffO: "... Haworthias have big root systems" not necessarily true, most of mine don't (I only grow indoors).

Pardon my interrupting the thread, w/out adding pix (I haven't taken pix of cuttings in a while.)

Karen, I want to say maybe you're plants don't have good roots in a joking way, but I can't find a way to word it. I'm sure your roots are fine (as in OK). The roots are definitely thicker in general--as the photo shows and I've seen from repotting--as compared to something like the Echeverias. Maybe I didn't use the right word.

I have lots of propagated leaves, most were knocked off or removed from a cutting.

This one has a very sad looking Echeveria (got burned last summer; middle is still green so there's hope), Graptosedum alpenglow (left), Sedum adolphii cutting & leaves, and a tiny E. perle von nurnberg

Many more G. alpenglows, a sad surviving Sedum morganianum (hasn't grown roots after almost a year?), and attempted Echeveria leaves (some have very tiny plants but not sure what to do next with them)

A few more G. alpenglows, another S. morganium, more S. adolphii, and tiny E. plantlets.

My tray of S. morganium that haven't grown roots either

And the ones that haven't grown plantlets/roots yet or are dried leaves.

Jeff

I have what has been ID-ed as either H. coarcata or reinwardtii. I have only one sp, so can't really compare, and comparing to photos, often I can't tell difference. My plants are relatively compact, they get 'leftover' light indoors. Outside, they are amongst other plants and could be bit shaded by other plant. They offset quite easy (as described in H. reindwartii). There are 21 offsets right now from 5 older plants:

..."Genus Haworthia was divided recently in three genera Haworthia, Haworthiopsis and Tulista.

In cultivation H. coarctata is very easy species. Needs little bit more exposed situation to let plants grow compactly. It can be easily propagation by offsetts or stem-cutting.

H. reinwardtii is proliferous species forming clumps in nature. Under H. reinwardtii are described forms olivacea, zebrina, kaffirdriftensis and chalumnensis. In cultivation it needs more sunny position to show its beauty. It is an easy species to grow.

The differences between the two species are following: H. coarctata has tubercles smaller and more smoothly rounded, whereas in H.reinwardtii they are frequently large and tend to be flattened and whiter. The forms of H. reinwardtii are often more striking because of the larger white tubercles"...

Thanks Rina, last night I posted on the Haworthians thread that I found the 20 year old label for the parent plant, which was given to me. It's labeled as Haworthia reinwardtii v. tenuis, but it looks like that's a synonymn, and it' more likely called a H. coarctata var. tenuis. I don't know about all of that naming stuff, but it's confusing because it looks like a coarctata because of the smaller and more smoothly rounded tubercles, as your quote shows.

I've seen some photos I took quite a few years ago and it looked a little more plump. That's why I'm trying to start over. I want to take some even shorter stem cuttings and grow them more compact, which means they'll be browner too.

20 year old label! Congrats on finding that one;)!

Jeff

I think your plant is etiolated - but am sure you are giving it better light now and should have soon more compact growth. I never tried stem cuttings or leaves, since there are plenty of offsets (I have given few away beside what I have left). I do not go out of my way to giving them best light, but obviously they need some in my dark basement. One is growing in a pot with large sans, and big jade next to it that shades it. It has 4 offsets, all quite recent. This is darkest some of mine got, indoors:

Kara, it was really nice to find, even if it isn't accurate, at least by how they're named now. It got me to find out that it's really a Haworthiopsis coarctata v. tenuis. The other old label I found was Aloe descoingsii x A. hawothioides.

Rina, I didn't even really realize it was etiolated until Pagan told me. He also said this variety likes sun, or at least brighter light than many other ones. So it will be pretty much brown, but I'd rather have that and it be more compact. I'd be happy if they look as good as yours, even if it isn't a plant I especially like. The old plant is tired and I don't know if it will produce any more offsets, but I'll repot it. It was easy enough to do stem cuttings.

This might be an E. PvN, from a leaf cutting. I posted it above almost three weeks ago. I love how water drops appear to sit suspended like that on some small Echeverias, with light refracting through them.

If you look close, you can see the four bulbs of my florescent fixture in the water drop.

I don't know what this is; it's from a leaf cutting.

2nd looks similar to S. hernandenzi(i?) - but could I see more of plant? (leaves should be 'cracked'). I think that one is slow grower.

May I pls ask how does one assess for etiolation in a form like Reinweindtii? Since it doesn't have the same type of leaves & spacing, what are you seeing that tells you that? Color or tightness of growth?

Wow, pretty great pic, that first one, the drop almost doesn't look real!

Rina, that's pretty much it, but I could shoot it from a different angle at some point. I think this was a leaf on the floor of a store.

Karen, I mentioned that I didn't realize mine was etiolated, but now I can see it. If you look at these cuttings, which look exactly the same as the parent, the leaves aren't right up against each other vertically, if that makes sense, like Rina's are. I think it also makes it appear skinnier, which always did bother me. I also don't think they should be pointing out like that, possibly reaching for light, they should be tight together. So it's both vertical and horizontal, kind of. They aren't as plump as they should be, but maybe that's a different matter.

Jeff

Plant I think could be S. hernandenzii is very slow grower I think; and leaves look cracked. I have couple of leaves, but they are taking forever to grow - I think this is about 6mo or so: