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- Increase Flaming Käthchen - simply over cuttings
- Thus, the propagation succeeds with leaf cuttings
- Increase Flaming Käthchen by means of shoot cuttings
- Sowing Flaming Katy
- Tips
The Flammende Käthchen is best propagated through cuttings
Increase Flaming Käthchen - simply over cuttings
The Flammende Käthchen (botanically correct Kalanchoe blossfeldiana) enjoys a great popularity as a houseplant, it brings color through its colorful flowers in the apartment. Most of the thick-leafed plant is cultivated only once a year, because a further flowering in the following years is often difficult to achieve. However, you can provide even for a tireless supply by propagating the Flaming Katy with cuttings.
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Like many other thick-leafed plants, the Flaming Katy can be easily multiplied by leaf or shoot cuttings. For leaf cuttings, cut single leaves. Take several, because experience has shown that not all roots. The best time to cut cuttings is spring. Proceed as described above:
After three to six months, the new leaves and shoots finally emerge, which mostly grow out of the interfaces.
Increase Flaming Käthchen by means of shoot cuttings
The propagation of the Flammenden Käthchens by means of shoot cuttings works similar to the one described above leaf cuttings. Instead of single leaves cut off only about ten centimeters long shoots with several leaves and plant them as well as the leaves. The new leaves and shoots will sprout from the places where there are already leaves.
Sowing Flaming Katy
With a little patience, the Flaming Katy can also be propagated by seeds or taken from commercially available seeds themselves. However, this method is quite complex and not always successful, which is why you better resort to the propagation of cuttings for home use. If you still want to try it, you can do the following:
Tips
Please note that the Flaming Katy only blooms when it receives a maximum of nine hours of light per day at temperatures of 16 to 20 ° C - after all, it is a so-called short-term plant.