How I Take Cuttings Of My Aeonium Arboreum
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Joy Us garden
(IC: blogger)
Taking cuttings of this succulent is so easy!
I got my Aeonium arboreum (the variety is “atropurpureum”) at a lecture about succulents at the San Francisco Botanical Garden about 20 years ago. The curator of the desert garden at the UC Davis arboretum was speaking and brought plants to sell. This was of the very 1st succulents I ever bought and I carried it with me when I moved to Santa Barbara. I now have 3 of them in pots and a few in the garden so I want to share with you how I take cuttings of this small tree-like succulent.
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See how I take cuttings of it in this video:
Here’s 1 of the stems that I cut off with the branches shooting off of it. The whole thing was completely down on the ground this past winter.
Here you can see I cut the aeonium into “bite size” pieces. Because the heads are fairly large, I wanted to cut the stems down which eliminates their chance of toppling over.
By the way, this is what the stems look like when they’ve healed over. These cuttings were taken over 3 months ago.
3 of the heads looking nice & healthy. If you’re curious as to how I would plant these, then click right here.
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Published May 6th, 2016 5:58 PM
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Valerie on May 07, 2016Thanks for a very informative post - I am glad that you are sharing the cuttings, they are lovely plants and will give your friend joy for years to come.
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Joy Us garden on May 08, 2016@Valerie Oh yes, I've shared so many succulent cuttings from my garden. I love to pass them on! Happy gardening, Nell
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Joy Us garden on May 10, 2016@DORLIS Yes, even my UPS man is saying her has enough now! Nell
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Pauliegirl1 on May 09, 2016If I remember from my days of "hoarding" plants....you can grow just about ANY succulent from a single LEAF!! Just put them in the soil...BOOM!! And I am pretty sure the stems will grow again too!! I just always did it by one leaf...have fun!!
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Joy Us garden on May 10, 2016@Pauliegirl1 Yes, most succulents are very easy to propagate by leaf too. sometimes they fall off the plant & root by themselves in the garden. I call them the plants which keep on giving! Nell
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