What's up everyone? Welcome back to the show, the Epic Gardening Show. Today we are going to be discussing how to propagate Kalancho, a really really popular plant for cultivation, indoors and outdoors. Quite a handsome plant if I do say so myself.

So knowing how to propagate Kalancho

basically means that you'll have Kalancho for the rest of your life.

Once you have it, you typically want more.

I know I've been experimenting with it in my own garden.

So the first thing that we need to understand is, how does Kalancho reproduce? If you have a mature Kalancho succulent,

you've probably seen it grow offsets to create new plants. These are those baby

plants that pop up at the tips of leaves, they typically rely on the parent

plant while they grow their own roots. And this takes a lot of energy from the

parent, so it'll be faster and easier on the plant to separate them and take over that propagation process

yourself. You can propagate them through these offsets or you can propagate

Colancho through a stem cutting. When cut and planted correctly, the wounds will then send out roots and it will create a new plant.

While the roots are busy getting established, the cutting typically lives off the nutrients stored in the leaves themselves

and so the result if you do it properly like I said is a nice new baby Kalancho

for your garden. Really you can also reproduce them via seed, but it's more complicated, it's less

successful and it takes a lot longer. And so pretty much everyone is going to do it

with a stem-tip cutting or they're going to do it by separating off the offshoots.

So if you are taking a cutting, then what you want to do is propagate during the spring or summer.

At this time, there's not going to be any flowers,

which means that it's not busy storing energy

for the next bloom, which means that you can direct

some of that energy into new growth through propagation. You want to select a

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