So I spread the offsets on top of soil (peat + perlite + "potting soil"). They are in a 4 inch pot, about 14 inches from a 100 W equivalent (22 W?) compact fluorescent. I'll water and maybe mist irregularly. I figured I'd give them a couple months (say Thanksgiving) to do something. I may follow up before then as well.

I suspect this will give me more than I need (of yet another plant..). If anyone is interested in guessing the final number, I can send half to the closest guesser for postage. I'll count a new plant as one with at least one new set of partially green leaves, plus roots that penetrate soil.

And here's my mom's plant after being shaken:

I have not grown this one before (neat plant), but looking at your offsets and on the mother plant many/most are all or mostly pink......I think these will die but some look like they have a lot of chlorophyll with just a pink edge..............and these should come true!

At least the pot looks colorful!

I sort of feel like I walked down that "wrong" aisle in a toy store...

Below is a magnified view of one region (lower left) so the extent of non-pink pigmentation is more apparent.

I should add that my mom's current plant is itself the only one that came up from a fallen offset before her previous plant bloomed and died. As far as I'm aware these are monocarpic, so having easy ways to make more is important. No new ones have come up yet in her pots outside this year, as far as I'm aware.

It's pretty easy to get new ones from the chopped up pieces of the plant and blooming stalk after it blooms but before it completely dies.

I think I remember that bryophyllum can be propagated by leaf cuttings like african violets too.

dbarron, I've tried leaf cuttings of this plant with zero success. Have they worked for anyone? Stem cuttings of all sorts are pretty easy for me.

I had a nice one of those a few years ago like your moms,mine never set any off shoots of any kind,and the reason i bought it in the first place besides being pretty,was because i thought it would take off like mother of thousands.Boy was i wrong on that one!!
Hope you have luck with yours.
Kathi

Roots are starting to grow already, photo below taken late Saturday. The first pictures were taken Thursday, but I collected the offsets Wednesday, so this is after 3 days. Roots are most obvious at "9:00" but there are many examples.

Update Sept. 28. They are starting to show signs of life:

And the Oct. 9th update:

Congratulations on getting all those bubils to begin development; there are about two dozen in your photo to follow. My own experience with very few bulbils is that it takes a long time for some to develop, and from those almost all fail to progress very much. My photo shows one which has survived for six months, but I have little hope it will do well.

I have corresponded with one person who has had some success attempting to grow plants from the bulbils. I don't think the resulting plants had pink bulbils, however. He did produce new plants by cutting off the upper part of a plant, which he planted and then had both pieces produce pink bulbils. Yale

Hi Yale,

I owe you an email from an embarrassingly long time ago.

My mom's current plant (3rd photo from the top) is a "volunteer" that grew from a fallen offset. However, I think it was the only one to survive growing completely outside.

I really haven't had trouble growing up the plants this way. The problem that I run into is that the inside (fluorescent) light doesn't seem intense enough and they eventually topple over..

Below are some small plants from earlier in the year. They are growing vigorously and producing pink offsets just fine. Perhaps the 24 hour light helps?

Randy

That looks awesome! Congratulations! I was afraid they would do anything for ya after what others posted. I'm happy to see you are about to have more plants than you know what to do with!

Here are the offsets/plants on Oct. 26. The important thing to note (although it may be hard to see!) is that some are starting to produce their own "Pink Butterflies" at the edges of the leaves.

There are also at least 4 dozen growing plants.

AWESOME!! :)

Here's the Nov. 14 update. In between the last two photos, I did move the plants closer to the compact fluorescent light. Because of that, they are showing more color.

The apparent size of the plants in the photo above is misleading. I'll crop the photo and post it again, so you can more reasonably compare the size with that of October. 27th

I decided these were already crowded enough--and I was getting curious--so I dumped out the contents of the pot, separated all the plants, and counted them.

I mentioned from the beginning that I knew that there was no way I would be able to keep all of them. The offer stands, that whoever wants to guess how many made it--both roots and new growth--even if tiny--can have half of what's here. That is, the closest guesser, with the error high or low, gets them. If a tie, then the low guesser.

However, I'd obviously like to get these in the mail as soon as possible, so I'll accept guesses (here) up to 12:00 noon Sunday Pacific time (3:00 P.M. Sunday Eastern Time) and hopefully I'll be around to post the results at that time. As I say, I've already counted them.

Postage is either $5.95 Priority mail or $2.68 First Class Parcel. There's no frost on this end, but in principle there could be in between. Because of the urgent nature--I'm not potting up the ones I'll send, although I could mist them a couple times--something like Paypal becomes essential. And of course, U.S. only.

No guesses here, although I did get one privately of 70.

Here's what I got: I counted 78 little guys:

And 14 big ones.

So the total was 92.

I forgot to give an idea of the scale. The black area that the plants are photographed on has maximum dimensions of 13.5 x 9 inches. The plants in both cases nearly filled this area. So perhaps the two photos above are roughly 12 x 8 inches, maybe slightly less.

Nice! I missed your original guess game although I would probably have guessed 1/3 that! They look great and that is really a neat plant!

Just stumbled across these last week, and I have fallen in love with these. They look great! Missed the guess game, but would love to have some (will pay for postage)...

Do you still have some? Would Love to buy some. But i am in Ireland

Gosh i hope you still have some you would like to give a way will happily pay....i have purchased so many cutting of these and have failed at propagating...couldnt figure out what i was doing wrong....but now thanks to you i know....let me know if you want to give any up....and thank you for the post.

I don't have the plant right now. I can't grow it long term outside because of insufficient sunshine. So I have my mom grow it. I'm not sure what happened to her plant. I'll pick up a 1 gallon pot if I see one--that tends to be several big plants. Home Depot sometimes carries those for $6 or $7. Really!

its ok im going to try your method under a grow light and see what happens

I purchased a small pink butterfly kalanchoe last year. I have had good luck with growing the pink babies by watering them regularly with chlorophyll water (dissolved a chlorophyll gelcap in water). Most grow with no special lighting. I also broke off a few leaves with some babies on the edges. I stuck the leaf in dirt, and watered that with chlorophyll water. Quite a few grew that way, too. I always have more plants than I know what to do with!

Hu, are they still growing? I 'm curious. I've been having a super hard time growing these, while other succulents I have are growing easily...

I noticed my success rate to be around 25%. Plants with more grayish or green tinge fare better than the very pink ones. I have a couple of tiny plants randomly growing in my yard. They do better in constantly moist soil with shade. The ones in full sun seem to shrivel unless they have developed a good root system. bigger plants have started to show variegation and pink edges just like their mom.

I started with 2 plants one grew to a 12” regular pink butterfly while the other one mutated to this. This failed to grow due to lack of chlorophyll and remained no taller than 3 inches. The lower leaves are green. I’m sure the plant will die once the older green leaves Fall.

I am extremely interested in trying to grow these also.i live in US if u could ship some i will pay postage.

The ones I have I actually got from Etsy, they are babies still :) The one in the photo is so pretty :D:D

Hello! I came across this post while looking for other peanut butterfly babies that had little black dots on their leaves and glad I came across this to notice that others have it as well. Also glad that other people have some luck with growing these. I'm having a lot of luck with mine but they seem to grow the best under a nice strong grow light. I have had mine under the aero garden grow light which seems to be a really strong one and make a lot of my plants really pretty. I'm shocked to know that almost everyone that I stuck in the pot a few months back have now turned into babies that are rooted in and growing but just so everybody knows, they take a very long time. Due to of course the lack of green. But I'm willing to wait to see how they turn out. I'll take a picture of my cuties to show mine. They are very little. I know this post is very old but talking about succulents never gets old 😊 oh and another thing that I noticed about these... They don't like to be watered that much even when they are tiny babies. I have more luck with these ones that barely ever get watered.

Also, unfortunately, as I'm taking a photo of this, I'm noticing my Var. Graptopedalum mirinae has lost a ton of leaves after watering. 😫 So devastating. Something told me not to water after the 1st time this happened but thankfully only to one stem but this time it's affected all 9-10 stems. 😔 this is one of my babied favorites too 🥺

Here is another bunch of them but not doing as well because they're not under the best for lights like my others But I intend to just get some regular potting soil and amend it just a little bit and mostly leave it organic and see how they would do that way. Just for experimental purposes. Seedlings like organic normally and I know these aren't seedlings but I just want to see what happens

And some more. I have them everywhere! This one just has 3 in there but one isn't in the photo.

I see where the best results are though. No wonder those AeroGarden are so expensive! They have awesome lights!

I am just starting on this plant too after losing my first plant i got from overseas a few years ago. I am trying an experiment. I was wondering if a fully pink plant can parasitise if grafted onto one of the parent species.

Two more new shoots. And only the last two leaves left to produce another two more. I got a total of 8 plants from the lower half of the original plant. The upper half has since been halved twice again so now I have 3 stumps generating shoots for every leaf. All fast growing and healthy. With a chance to get a special individual :p

Just love this Yellow Variegated individual. Looks better taken in sunlight.

A little unconventional but my pink butterflies are grown on lecca with a bot of worm cast and moss to cover the top. There's about an inch of water below which I allow to almost dry out before adding more. The colour of the moss is a good indication of the amount of water left in the cup. They grow fastest under such conditions. The moss is also a good medium to try and grow the plantlets. The all pink plantlets will just wither and die off after a while. The ones with a bit of green will slowly grow.