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- Can I simply multiply my thick leaf?
- How do I cut cuttings from my thick-leaf?
- A special feature: The propagation of the breed sheet
- The essentials in brief:
- Tips
The thick leaf can be easily multiplied by cuttings
Can I simply multiply my thick leaf?
Propagation is an important issue for many plant lovers and hobby gardeners. But not every plant can multiply in the same way and sometimes it takes a lot of patience until a result is in sight.
Previous article Can I draw a thick leaf as a bonsai? Next article Are thick-leafed plants poisonous?Sometimes, however, the plants also multiply on their own, such as the hatchet, a species of the family of the thick-leafed plants. Other types of thick-leaf can be propagated via leaf or head cuttings, such as the rosette thick-leaf. If you have a thick-leaf that forms branches, then use new shoots as cuttings. The best time to cut cuttings is spring.
How do I cut cuttings from my thick-leaf?
Leaf cuttings cut as far as possible out of the rosette (in rosette-shaped thick leaves) or directly from the trunk. Remember that rosettes that have just flowered will die off. These are no longer suitable for propagation. In this case, better take another rosette.
After drying, you put the leaf directly in cactus soil, but it should still be about one third out of the ground. Place your cuttings in a bright, warm place without direct sunlight. Now you need a little patience until a small plant has grown from it. A head or shoot cuttings grow a little faster. Here you use a complete rosette or a 10 cm long shoot.
A special feature: The propagation of the breed sheet
The hatchet has a very special kind of propagation. Therefore, you do not have to worry about offspring in this species. On the leaf margins of the brood-leaf (in some species only at the tip of the leaf) tiny tiny plantlets, also known as the baby, grow. These daughter plants fall off the mother plant as soon as they are sufficiently rooted and can exist independently.
The essentials in brief:
Tips
Sowing is very time consuming with thick leaves. If you do not have a thick leaf yet, then you may be able to try the sowing.