Haworthia attenuata

You can let it keep clumping and forming a mound, or you can remove the offsets or 'pups' as we like to call them. Either way, the plant will be happy, and continue to do well for you.

Removing the offsets is very straightforward. Wait until they are about 1/3 or more the size of the mother plants. Once big enough, you can just sort of tease them off the mother plant. Try to keep as many of its roots as possible, but even if you only get the rosette of leaves, it should do just fine.

Pot the pups into very fast draining soil, and *don't* water for at least a week. After you've let it rest for a while, you can start watering it, but less so than usual. Once it is established, and producing new growth, you can give it a normal watering schedule.

The best time of the year to do it is spring, although it looks like you grow indoors, in which case you can probably do it any time of the year. It will just want some warmth, and they have the best chance of surviving if they are in active growth when you separate them.

Good luck!

Thanks Joscience!! So, I would wash the soil off the whole thing and separate? Will I need to cut with a knive? Sorry, it came from a relative, and is rather a sentimental favourite. It does go out into the shade in the summer - would I be better to wait till I can put it/them all out??

Thanks.

Hi Nancy,

The advice given above is fine, you could do as it suggests.

Doesn't have to wait 'til you put them out, but pls. DO NOT wash them off w/ water. They don't need that & that water could cause rot to the young pups if they have no roots.

This operation is to be done DRY pls., I do it often. One can just gently twist the pup (baby plantlet) off the mother plant & then leave it aside for a few days to dry. Then pot it up, also dry, do not water it for a week or two.

I'd wait 'til Spring, looks happy & healthy now & DOES NO HARM AT ALL to just leave the pups where they are.

The plant to the left is a Kalanchoe, maybe K. fedchenkoi. I wouldn't pot that larger anytime soon, the pot is ALMOST too big for it.

Thanks Pirate Girl - I guess I was thinking Hosta!! Actually, the plant to the left is a sedum from a Florida friend's garden!! I've never gotten it to bloom, sadly - it's kinda neat. It's in such a large pot cause I almost killed it!!! You were reading all the kalanchoe in the room - too many to root, but too healthy to compost!! Do you know what the proper name is for Burro Tails??

Nancy.

Nancy, your Haworthia is really unusual. The largest of the group looks to have peach coloring on upper leaves. Does it?

I like your shoe planter too..does it have drainage holes? Guess we like shoe's for some reason. lol Toni

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Nancy,

I have no idea what this means "You were reading all the kalanchoe in the room".

The Kalanchoe I see is the plant on the left in the white pot, I don't see any sedum except maybe the leaves coming into the corner on the very lower left of the pic, tho' I don't know which.

I had missed the plant on the right altogether. I believe that is Burro's Tail, botanically it's Sedum morganianum.

You guys are awesome!!! I had two large kalanchoe plants that I brought from of my outside pots too late. So, roots dead, but lots of healthy foliage - but how much do I really need?? So, I was teasing that you were hearing their cries, for pots. Seriously, the pot on the right is a sedum from Florida. If I still had all of my pic archives, I could show the mother plant. Really.

Hopeful - I like your hi-top better - is it real? My shoe is a lesser ceramic vessel, with no bottom openings. It sits undercover outside, in the summer, quite happily!!!

Thanks All.

Oh yeah, and hopeful - the colour is an illusion. It is green. Sorry.

One last thing, other than glad to help.

Many Kalanchoes can be re-started from healthy foliage. When mine get scraggly, I just chop 'em back & they'll grow anew.

Some Kalanchoe even grow from SINGLE LEAVES. To try this, simply place several healthy leaves ON TOP OF, not in, a tiny pot of mix & DO NOT WATER. After a bit, you'll see either roots or tiny leaves growing on one end. Then you can pot it up & only AFTER you see new growth or roots, should you water.

I'm reminded they grow from leaves as I was cleaning off one of my windowsills normally full of plants just last week. Btwn the pots & the window, outside any mix at all, just on the sill, a Kalanchoe leaf had fallen, grown roots & a couple of tiny leaves. It could have been there a month or 2 w/out my knowing. I was so surprised to find it there!

way cool, thanks.

Hi Nancy..Your Kalanchoe, in the white pot, has the common names, Mother of Thousands, Mother of Millions.
Some species are: fedtschenkoi, daigromotiana, bryophyllum, and beharensis. There's many more, but too many to list.
Yours looks closest to K. fedtschenkoi. I had several, started from 1/8" baby leaves 3 yrs ago, but gave most away..I also have the variegated which looks very close to yours, only leaves are pink, white and green, which looks similar to yours.

Remove 1 leaf and root..if you have an outside garden, come spring, plant the rooted leaf in the garden. they grow fast. Growing in the garden in summer, promoted flowering in winter.
They're easy to root..they'll even root w/o soil..pinned to a curtain, or just seting atop soil w/o inserting in soil.
Check out www.gosucculent.com Click on Kalanchoes. There's
3 pages with names and colored photos..

The shoe is cermic, with genuine laces. lol.
Your pot is green? Amazing..the laces and inner pot shows green, but the outside looks brown. How is it an illusion? lol. Toni

Toni pls. be careful giving out incorrect info again:

Bryophyllum is NOT a species of Kalanchoe, it's another name for Kalanchoe, that is to say a synonym for it (can't site chapter & verse but it's abt the lumpers vs. splitters in the nomenclature discussions).

Just so you know & can correct yourself.

If you don't believe or trust this, pls. check it on desert-tropicals.com, where I expect the names will show as synonymous for each other.

Nancy, I apoligize adding Bryophyllum as a species. When spelling 5 syllable botanical names I cheat...ck plant books..The name I was aiming for was K. Wendy, but misread the botanical name, which, after rechecking, isn't listed. K. Wendy looks exactly like your plant. If it happens to be, its flowers are breath taking. Long, tubular, pink with white edges..Toni

Thanks, Toni, I DO appreciate it.

(PG) Karen

Toni no illusion!! Inside of pot is glazed, for water retension, outside is stained, to be a little more realistic! Hey, it almost worked!! lol.

Pirate Girl - I have found those sprouting leaves, nestled between plants. What a bonus!!

Again, thanks all. You rock. I had no idea there were so many types of kalanchoe. I was only familiar with the 'grocery store' ones, which I have in abundance.

Nancy.