Propagation
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Propagating succulent leaves & cuttings: step-by-step guide
Click here for the Full Visual Guide Propagation is a fun and simple way to recycle overgrown plants and multiply your collection. With a little bit of care, succulents can re-grow roots from offsets or cuttings of leaves and stems. Succulents have high concentrations of meristem cells and enou... -
Propagating Sempervivum Hens & Chicks
Left on their own, Sempervivum rosettes grow into tidy, mounding clusters. They are also particularly easy to propagate by hand because they produce new offsets or "chicks" on stolons (horizontal stems). Cut or gently pull a chick from the mother rosette. Place the new offsets on well draining s... -
Propagating Sempervivum heuffelii
Crown Division While standard Sempervivum (Hens &Chicks) are known for sending out young plant offsets on stolons from a central mother rosette, new growth in S. heuffelii arises through crown division. S. heuffelii varieties develop offsets right in the middle of an older rosette. As leave...