How I Take Cuttings Of My Aeonium Arboreum
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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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