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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

3 Easy Ways to Propagate Succulents

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2018

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Today Karina from Sacred Elements is back, talking about the nitty gritty of succulent propagation. Despite being easy plants to propagate, there are some details that you need to know before starting your journey. They also take a while, so be sure to exercise patience ;) Karina is a "Jill of all trades" and has an incredible aesthetic eye, boundless creativity and a fantastic mind for houseplant care. Hope you enjoy the show. Learn More: Karina's Website Karina's Instagram Sacred Elements YouTube Succulent Care Video Keep Growing, Kevin Support Epic Gardening Support Epic Gardening on Patreon Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Buy the Epic Soil Starter Organic Fertilizer! How do you super-charge your soil with good, inexpensive organic matter? That was the question I sought to answer when I designed this custom-mixed fertilizer with my friends over at Garden Maker Naturals. It's designed to take your ordinary raised bed garden soil and give it enough organic matter to kick-start your growing season. Order Your Epic Soil Starter Here   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right everyone. We're back with Karina of Sacred Elements and today it's going to be

0:06.5

Karina of Sacred Suckulants because we're talking about propagating

0:10.8

succulents, succulent tips in general, succulents obviously an extremely popular type of plant to be keeping indoors or outdoors.

0:19.0

And I think more people are keeping them indoors these days, even when they're in climates that might not be the most favorable

0:25.0

because you can of course always supplement with indoor lighting etc. Now one thing that's

0:29.5

interesting is they can be somewhat pricey while at the same time being relatively easy to propagate and care for.

0:37.6

So, Krina is going to go over three of the ways that you can propagate a succulent and then we're just going to riff on some general care tips.

0:45.4

So, Karina, what are these three ways that we can propagate a succulent?

0:50.6

Okay, so the three ways are you can propagate a succulent from the leaf.

0:56.0

You can propagate a succulent from a cutting, or you can propagate a succulent from the stem that is still in the dirt that you just cut off.

1:07.5

So the stump basically, yeah.

1:10.5

Gotcha. And so let's go with leaf cutting first because I think that's probably the most popular method at least from a practicality standpoint.

1:20.4

What should we know about propagating succulents via the leaf?

1:24.8

Because it's definitely different than normal plants.

1:27.3

Yes, it is.

1:30.4

I discovered kind of how this is such an easy method with my bros tail

1:35.8

Cedum which I have so many pictures over the years of this one because I've been

1:41.4

growing about three of them and if you have ever been around

1:45.2

a burrows tail seatum or a donkey tail sedom you'll know just from looking at it that you should not

1:51.5

touch it because if you touch, the leaves will literally just fall off.

1:56.4

Very sensitive.

1:58.3

Very sensitive.

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