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Propagating succulents and mixing growing medium

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Sedums are amazing plants. They are very hardly and thrive on neglect, great
plants for people with busy lives.

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In this instructable, I'll show you how to mix your own growing medium with
materials diverted from the waste stream and propagate plants via cloning.

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* Soil
* Pots
* Broken terra cotta pots (please don't break usable ones...just a bit of
searching and I'll bet you can find some already broken)
* Hammer
* A few sedum
* Tarp
Safety Equipment
* Gloves
* Glasses
* Something to protect your floor from hammering, Iused an old cutting board
and carpet
* An old towel

Step 2: Crush the Terra Cotta

Use your hammer and go to town. Ifound that covering the terra cotta with a
towel prevented sharp bit of clay flying around. This process takes longer than
you may think. I was shooting for gravel size pieces, but we had to quit due to
tired arms before we got there.
Why terra cotta? My neighbor has a large broken pot in his yard, so it was
available. I'm sure there are other options, I'd love to hear what you used in
the comment section.

Step 3: Mix soil and crushed terra cotta

You can use up to 75% crushed terra cotta. Sedums are adapted to growing
in soils with high inorganic content.
Ifound an easy way to do this is to pick up the tarp between two people and
roll the medium back and forth.

Step 4: Fill your pots with the growing medium

Step 5: Cloning Sedum

The is very much easier than it sounds. Remove a stem from the main plant.
Be as gentle as is practicable. If you can bring along part of the root system
then it will establish itself faster. Put part of the stem beneath soil and the
other part with foliage above ground. You've done it!

Step 6: Enjoy your new plant

Put in full sun to partial shade (depending on the species). Do not over water.

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3 years ago

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here is the uk, growing sucelents is not possible with most species
over the winter outdoors. i have a greenhouse and i have a lot of cacti
and succelent plants. this year, i have managed to propagate an aloe
aristata and a senicio crassulafolius. i have also managed to detach
two stems off my chameacerous sylvestrie and root them too. i have a
quistoin. i have four aloe aristata, including the offset, and the largest
has flowered the last two years and last year it had one stalk and this
year, two. hopefully my other two mature ones will flower. here it goes,
how long does it take for an offset to reach flowering size?
another one. does the senicio crassulafolius even flower?

ortsa jarfon0300

2 years ago

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Iv got dozens of Aloe aristata in my heated greenhouse, its so

difficult to discard the little offsets. I'm not sure about time but
well cared for i would imagine not more than 3-4 years. Mine
normally flower when about 6" in diameter.

NaturalCrafter

3 years ago

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The Autumn Red sedium is one that just keeps on giving. I love the
height and the color it brings into the garden for fall. Thanks for sharing
this information about such cool plants.

limpach

4 years ago

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Ah sedum. This is a very tough plant. Iremember having to clone this

stuff working at a nursery. If you want a really hardy variety look for
one called Black Jack.

a03326495 (author)

Thanks!

limpach

4 years ago

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kat_navarro

4 years ago

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Great Instructable. Buying plants is sooo expensive, this is an

awesome alternative!!!

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